How to Take the Perfect Landscape Photo

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm John Budden with Shutter Priority Imaging Center and I'm going to talk to you about how to take a landscape photo. Typically in landscape photos to keep them interesting, the idea is, is you don't want to just center your subject. Typically, what you know, the technical term they call it the rule of thirds. Typically what you want to do is you want to put your main focus in a third of like a third of the photograph. Typically, so since we have our falls here what we're doing is we're putting this over in this third. So it allows you to kind of look in and gives it kind of more character in your landscape photos. Another trick is, try to put foreground to give depth to your picture too. That way, when people look at it, it looks like it's more, instead of being flat, we have depth coming through. Another interesting thing is, is especially if you're going on those Bahama trips and stuff, is the sunset water sets scenes. What's really cool about these scenes and what works very well, is you want to make sure that your horizontal line is exactly horizontal. Try to hold your camera really straight. That way when you go to print it looks very good. Here again, we want to keep it in the rule of thirds. Typically what you're going to do is you're going to take this line and maybe probably drop it a little bit lower than what you're seeing here on this picture here would make it look very attractive, sunset water scene. And that's how you take a good landscape photo."