f/2.8 f/4 f/5.

6 f/8 f/11 f/16 f/22

Wide Apeture (more light) Narrow Apeture (less light)

Keep the aperture narrow so you achieve deep depth of field.

100 200 400 800 1600 3200 6400

Lower LIGHT SENSITIVITY Higher

Try to avoid noise in your landscape shots by using a low ISO.

1/1000”
1/100”

1/125”

1/250”

1/320”

1/500”
1/25”

1/30”

1/50”
30”

15”

10”

2”

1”
Tripod Freeze
Blur motion Handheld Ok
Recommended Motion

Whatever it takes to keep the above settings as you want them. Use a
tripod if it’s too slow to hand hold and you are getting blurry shots. Use
a tripod to steady your camera for slower shutter speeds.

Look at your It is possible to get a great

histogram!
You will usually want to see a
bell shaped histogram that is
slightly to the right of center.
This makes post production
easier as bringing a slightly
over-exposed image down
doesn’t introduce noise
whereas increasing exposure
in post on an under-exposed
image will.
landscape without much gear,
but it’s a lot more difficult.
The bare essentials for great
landscapes are a wide angle
lens and a tripod.
The classic rules of
composition tend to produce
very powerful landscape
images. That means thinking
about the rule of thirds as well
as looking for elements such as
roads, rivers and fences to act
as leading lines.
Many landscape
photographers will also add a
polarizing filter, an ND filter and
an ND Grad filter (individually
or stacked).

Wind is your enemy so do

It also helps to capture as much
information as possible by
shooting raw files.
whatever you can to stabilize
Be aware of the visual weight
your camera to avoid blur.
of elements so that you get a
balanced composition.