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I am so excited to announce that we will now be featuring a Photography section here at 5 Minutes for Mom!
Yes, 5 Minutes for Mom will have regular photography posts for you busy moms — to inspire, encourage and empower you to grab your cameras and capture your lives.
If you want to master a DSLR camera, or just learn how to take better shots with a point and shoot, we are here for you! And of course, we will help you make your pictures look even better with tutorials and tips on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, and more.
Later this week, I will be introducing you to our new 5 Minutes for Mom Photography team — a fabulous, talented group! — and we will be setting up a Flickr group for you all to join in and share your photos with us.
But first, tell us — what do YOU want? What would YOU like to see here at 5 Minutes for Mom Photography? Where are you at with your camera? What programs do you use to process your photos? What do you want to learn?
Do you like nature, love to hike, watch the sunset, marvel over the beauty of the natural earth? The art of Nature and Landscape Photography allows you to capture those moments that take your breath away. Here are 45 Great Landscape Photographers that demonstrate how beautiful the earth can be.
Click on each name to visit that Photographers site.
Craig Wolf Photography
Photograph By: Craig Wolf
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Adam Burton Photography
Photograph By: Adam Burton
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Dennis Reddick Photography
Photograph By: Dennis Reddick
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Michael E. Gordon Photography
Photograph By: Michael E. Gordon
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Nathaniel Reinhart Photography
Photograph By: Nathaniel Reinhart
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Nick Mansell
Photograph By: Nick Mansell
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Peter Lik Fine Art Photography
Photograph By: Peter Lik
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A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania
Photograph By: Kathleen Connally
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Mark Gray Fine Art Landscape Photography
Photograph By: Mark Gray
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Stephen Johnson
Photograph By: Stephen Johnson
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John Harrison Photography
Photograph By: John Harrison
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Elizabeth Carmel Fine Art Photography
Photograph By: Elizabeth Carmel
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Clyde Butcher
Photograph By: Clyde Butcher
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Marty Knapp
Photograph By: Marty Knapp
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Oregon Foto
Photograph By: Michael Skourtes
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Jay Patel Photography
Photograph By: Jay Patel
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Paul Kozal Photography
Photograph By: Paul Kozal
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Darwin Wiggett – Natural Moments Photography
Photograph By: Darwin Wiggett
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Ron Leonetti Photographic Art and Design
Photograph By: Ron Leonetti
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Jansen Gunderson Fine Art Landscape Photography
Photograph By: Jansen Gunderson
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Jim M. Goldstein Landscape, Nature And Travel Photography
Photograph By: Jim M. Goldstein
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John Fielder’s Colorado
Photograph By: John Fielder
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Paolo De Faveri Photography
Photograph By: Paolo De Faveri
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Pixelate Studio
Photograph By: Hans Jasperse
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Tom Till Photography
Photograph By: Tom Till
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Grant Collier Photography
Photograph By: Grant Collier
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Ilya Genkin
Photograph By: Ilya Genkin
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Joann Dost Fine Art Golf Landscape Photography
Photograph By: Joann Dost
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Michael Frye Photography
Photograph By: Michael Frye
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Robin Weaver Landscape Photographer
Photograph By: Robin Weaver
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Tim Parkin Still Developing
Photograph By: Tim Parkin
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Landscape Photography by Jeremy Turner
Photograph By: Jeremy Turner
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Larry Malvin Photography
Photograph By: Larry Malvin
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Michael Potts Wildlife and Landscape Photography
Photograph By: Michael Potts
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Nigel Turner Photography
Photograph By: Nigel Turner
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Rphotography
Photograph By: Geoff Ross
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Patrick Smith Unique Views of Land and Sea
Photograph By: Patrick Smith
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Steve Shames Photo Gallery
Photograph By: Steve Shames
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Tony Howell
Photograph By: Tony Howell
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Holdman Gallery
Photograph By: Willie Holdman
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AxOz Photography
Photograph By: Axel Mertens
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Ton Reijnaerdts Photo Gallery
Photograph By: Ton Reijnaerdts
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Anthony Roach Landscape Photography
Photograph By: Anthony Roach
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Ron Dubin Photography
Photograph By: Ron Dubin
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Guy D. Biechele Fine Art Photography
Photograph By: Guy D. Biechele
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Everyone’s seen the pictures, the truly amazing landscape photographers have taken and thought about just how they managed to be so lucky to get that picture. You know the ones I’m talking about, the photo with the perfect blue water or the photo which has a gorgeous waterfall with a rainbow above it. Well you know what? Those photos have virtually nothing to do with luck and more about persistence as well as hard work. So what must you do to ensure that you too get those fantastic photos?
Step 1 – Research:
If you would like amazing shots you have to do a great deal of research. You need to spend more time every week researching new and existing locations than you do taking any photos. Rather than going to a location that you are pondering photographing at exactly sunset, consider getting there an hour and a half prior to sunset and take a good stroll around the area. Take a few test shots of the location and see how they look, lie down on the ground as well as climb up to a high place to see what it looks like from a various perspectives.
Another great technique once you have chosen a location and are setup would be to turn around and look behind you, there has been many times when the shot I in fact ended up taking was in fact behind me.
If you have found a location to capture your landscape photograph and you want another perspective on that location try finding how others have shot that location. Keep in mind don’t copy how others took the photo, but certainly utilize it to see how other people see it.
Speak with people who hike, these people are a truly amazing supply of information and get to areas most of us would never consider.
Once you get to an area that you think may be an excellent candidate work out if it’s a morning shoot or an evening shoot, then go for it and shoot it. Keep in mind weather always plays a significant part in landscape photography and if you don’t get great conditions the first time around, keep going back again until the magic happens.
Step 2 – Persistence:
Many people go to an area a few times and give up when they don’t get the conditions they desire. You have to keep going back and trying various angles as well as shooting it in various conditions until you get the photo you want to achieve, just don’t give up. Getting great landscape photographs is all about hard work and very little luck.
So start researching your locations then get out there and start shooting, you will find yourself capturing amazing landscapes before you know it.
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Avoid objects that draw the eyes away from the subject. The intersection of subject and frame edge draws the eyes away from the interior of the photo. If a dog drinks water from a stream, and it's tail touches the edge of the frame, that is where the viewer's eyes are going to immediately be drawn. A better approach would be to let the tail continue past the frame or make sure the subject is fully contained in the shot.
Pay Attention to Brightness Photo Techniques
The viewers eyes are immediately drawn to the brightest object in the frame. If the subject of the photo is a tan dog, make sure a white dog toy is not off to the side.
Pay Attention to Color Photo Techniques
Color acts the same way as brightness. Strong saturated colors will draw the eye away from the subject. When taking a picture of a friend, make sure a red stop sign isn't competing with the subject.
Use Shapes and lines to Direct the Eye
"Leading lines" are two lines converging which force the eyes to follow the object into the distance. The composition can be arranged to use leading line to it's advantage.
Balance is an Important Photo Technique
After the viewers eyes are drawn to the primary subject, they will travel to the next object taking in the whole scene. If the primary object is on the left of the frame, place the secondary object to the left. Always have an odd number of objects to achieve proper balance. This includes the main subject. Remember the main object, or subject is what the eyes are drawn to first.
Just as a writer and painter tells a story, so does a photographer. Think about what the story is before picking up the camera. In the beginning, composition requires a lot of concentration. A student photographer will need to think in terms of practice, patience and determination. Before long this will become second nature, and the photographer will include them without even thinking, and will turn out beautiful photographs.
Resources
Canon PowerShot Digital Field Guide, Michael Guncheon
John Mullins