Practicing Landscape Photography

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai. 

I've always been inspired with photos of beautiful landscapes captured by various professional photographers. I really wanted to try out on how to capture such image. Their pictures are absolutely stunning. So I thought, I'd go out and try shoot some landscapes myself. I also brought along my trusted Digital Camera Magazine with me. DCM is absolutely useful. It provides tips that are easy to understand. I brought the 70th issue which had information about how to shoot landscapes.

The things that I learned for landscape photography was that - based on what I read:

1. It needs careful planning, preparation and patience - find suitable location, do some weather forecasting, wait for the right amount of surrounding light.
2.  Use a Wide-Angle Lens - helps to get more view into frame.
3.  Use the Rule of Thirds.
4.  Locate a foreground interest.
5.  Use a steady tripod. 
6.  Balance the exposure - using the Graduated Natural Density filters.
7.  Use a narrow aperture and low ISO setting.

So, at the time I was capturing these landscape shots, I simultaneously referred to DCM. Reading them is easy and can be understood well, but putting them into practice, it was kinda difficult for me as I have no experience. It would be wonderful if I had a guru beside me teaching everything about landscape photography.

DSLR - It's Construction (Part 1)

For this particular post (and some other future posts about DSLR) is just for our common knowledge about DSLR. It might also be considered as useful knowledge for some enthusiastic beginners. I'm not a professional, and certainly ain't a beginner; I considered myself as intermediate. haha..