The Best Landscape Photography Camera Settings
Learn how to choose the best landscape photography camera settings every time you shoot using the technique covered in this video.
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Choosing the right camera settings for landscape photography can be confusing at first. Working with a light source like the sun means that your available light is constantly changing, especially near sunrise and sunset.
In the next few minutes I want to solve one of the biggest challenges standing between where you are now...
And taking magazine-quality landscape photos.
Understanding what elements make up the Exposure Triangle is the easy part: Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO
Knowing which camera settings to use for any given shooting situation can be confusing.
The best shortcut I can give you to use is a proven framework.
This is the same technique I teach in detail in my eBook The Landscape Photography Handbook For Beginners.
I'm going to show you the Schubert Photography "Priority Technique" to help you say goodbye to CSCS "Camera Setting Confusion Syndrome".
If you haven't yet...be sure to download my Camera Settings Cheat Sheet. Because we'll be referring to that in this lesson.
Let's dive in...
The Problem:
Has something like this ever happened to you?
Imagine this...You're on a beach shooting what promises to be a gorgeous sunrise.
You lock in what you guess are the best camera settings to use.
But your shot is underexposed, so you open your camera's aperture wider.
But now the driftwood you've placed in your foreground is the only thing in focus, and you really want everything from front to back in focus.
You're getting frustrated. It's getting lighter by the minute. And what you thought was going to be a jaw dropping photo is now becoming a washed out mess with nothing on your camera's memory card to show for it.
Sound familiar?
The Solution:
It's time to say goodbye to that scenario, because I'm about to teach you a simple trick for nailing your landscape photography camera settings every time.
I call it the "Priority Technique".
I'm not talking about putting your camera into Priority Aperture or Priority Shutter modes. Although you can. But, for me, I like to have full control over every aspect of my shot so I can capture exactly what I'm looking for every time.
Here's how the Priority Technique works...
Step 1: Decide which is the most important thing about what you're trying to capture. The one or two elements of your image that you can't compromise. Lock that/those setting(s) in.
Step 2: Adjust the other non-critical exposure elements to achieve the optimal exposure for your image.
That's it!
For example, let's say that, in the sunrise beach scene described above, I decide that the thing I cannot compromise is having everything in the shot in focus.
I know that this will only be achieved if I use a higher aperture of at least f/11. So I lock that in as my "priority" setting that I'm not going to change no matter what.
Now I know that I only have my shutter speed and ISO to adjust.
If I raise my ISO too high in order to make the shot brighter, it may cause more noise than I want.
Since I'm shooting on a tripod to avoid camera shake at lower shutter speeds, I decide to leave my ISO at 100 and decrease my shutter speed to 1/25s.
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