4 Tips for Better Landscape Photos

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Shooting in RAW allows you to pull out a lot of shadow detail in landscape images, but there are situations that will give us better landscape photos if we learn high dynamic range photography (HDR), also called the bracket and merge technique.

Bracket and merge HDR is extremely useful for capturing sunsets and sunrises in our landscapes as it allows for detail showing in the darker or shadowed areas of the image without losing any of the subtle colors in the sky, clouds, or water reflections during these times of the day.

HDR requires you to capture several image files at different exposure values in order to merge them together in a post processing program to make one final image. The number of separate exposures might be 3, 5, or even more and these need to be able to register together without any camera movement, so the camera support in tip number 3 is useful here, too.

Using these landscape photography tips with equipment and techniques you already know will result in your creating better landscape photos in many situations.

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