Landscape Photography Course

Learn how to take stunning landscape photographs with this spectacular landscape photography course from world renowned photographer, Sue Bishop.

With the sophistication of camera equipment today, taking a regular photograph is relatively straightforward.  But taking a photograph that will have more drama and impact than others requires much greater insight.

Sue will guide you through all the various aspects to consider when taking a landscape photograph, including understanding and using natural light, finding the best composition for your photograph, making the most of colour, understanding the ways different focal length lenses behave, and using depth of field.  Learn how to take small cameo pictures to tell the story of a location, as well as taking the wider views.

You will glean many different landscape photography tips and insights during these landscape photography classes, and learn how to take your photography to a new level.

From wide vistas of the deserts of Africa, or the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas, to quaint windows and doorways hidden away in villages, each chapter is beautifully illustrated by Sue’s best images, alongside detailed captions that explain exactly how each photograph was achieved, as well as the thought processes behind them.

Lesson 1:  This lesson will look at the difference that using lenses of different focal lengths can make to your photographs, not just in terms of what you include or exclude, but also in the way that they affect the perspective in your image.  We’ll look at finding both the overall picture of a place, and smaller cameo photographs within it.   Finally this week, we look at using different apertures to control the depth of field in your photograph.

Lesson 2:  Light is all-important in photography, and this week we’ll look at understanding the different types of natural daylight.  Light varies in direction, quality, and colour temperature, and all these variables have a direct effect on the resulting image.  Although we can’t control the type of daylight prevailing when we’re out photographing in the landscape, at least a good awareness of the way the light works will help us to make the best use of what we have.

Lesson 3:  This week we look at the many different choices and decisions involved in composing your photograph, including what to include or exclude, using the rule of thirds, where to put the horizon, making use of lines within the image for visual impact, and other ideas to help you find a well-balanced, harmonious composition.

Lesson 4:  In our final lesson we’ll look at some aspects of colour theory, including warm and cool colours, colour harmony and colour contrast, and consider how to make the best use of colour in your photographs.  We’ll also think about finding pattern pictures within the landscape, creating an image with depth, and including people in your landscape photos.