Your Photography as Intellectual Property: What To Do When Someone Steals Your Photos
It’s something that happens to every landscape photographer sooner or later. You’re killing a little time surfing the web or doing some research and suddenly you pull up a website and see one of your own photographs staring back at you. It’s being used without your permission or your knowledge. Perh [...]
Colour vs Black and White: Which Is the Best Fit for Your Landscape Photography?
If you’re like a lot of landscape photographers, then it’s more than a little likely that part of what attracted you to your subject matter was color. The lush green of new spring foliage. The aquamarine of a clear sea on a sunny day. The moss greens and white-capped slate greys of the mountains. Co [...]
Landscape Photography in the Mountains: 4 Tips for Nailing Your Next Favorite Shot
It’s not hard to see why so many landscape photographers dream of an opportunity to spend some time in the mountains. After all, the very sight of snow-capped mountain peaks is synonymous with concepts like tranquility, majesty, and awe. It’s only natural to want to add your own take on such a wonde [...]
Shooting the Weather: What You Need to Know to Get an Amazing Shot
Once you get hooked on landscape photography, it’s only a matter of time before you start wondering what it would be like to score one of those amazing weather shots everyone goes gaga for. Whether you long to capture a lightning strike in its full glory or secretly dream of an image that really con [...]
Is It Really Possible to Make Money as a Professional Landscape Photographer?
You hear it all the time when it comes to career advice: “Follow your bliss and do what you love.” However, that’s naturally easier said than done, especially if what really gets your blood flowing is something creative like making music, painting portraits, or – of course – taking landscape photos. [...]
Emotion in Landscape Photography: Make Your Shots Come Alive with the Power of Feeling
We’re all familiar with the impact emotion can add to a given work of creative art, right? You know a book or movie is truly excellent when it can move you to tears or make you jump for joy. You realize a painting is powerful when you get the impression the subject could almost reach right out and t [...]