The Best Times of Day for Landscape Photography

Video Transcript

"The different time of day or the different time of season that you photograph a landscape can really help create a different feel for your image. You'll see here, three photographs all taken in the same place, but different seasons, and they create a much different feel. Obviously, the two on the top were shot during the summer. You're going to have a lot more greens to deal with and also you'll find more animals out in your landscapes because they?re just out and about more when it's warmer. Conversely, the image on the bottom was obviously shot in the winter and it was the only way to take that photograph with snow, not only covering the mountains in the background, but the whole foreground as well. It's just important to consider that, when taking a landscape photograph depending on what time of season it is, you're going to get some drastically different images. Some people like to take the same landscape shot throughout all seasons and really show how it changes from time to time. It's an interesting thing. Now time of day is also important thing when shooting a landscape. Most photographers prefer the light at the very beginning of the day and the very end of the day, because that way, it seems like the light is coming in more from the side and less from above and it's usually a little bit softer at the end or beginning of the day. You see in this photograph, it's a shot of the woods, an interior shot of the woods, this was shot in the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee. But what's neat about it is, it was shot at the end of the day, so there's limited light. And you'll notice that the light just curls through the back and you can see it fighting through some of the trees and then also making its way down the path. Basically, the point I'm trying to illustrate is that the time of day and the time of year that you take your landscape photograph, is really going to change the way it looks. And also you can show a full range of dynamics of one landscape by showing it in multiple seasons and also multiple times of day."