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Landscape Photography Cheat Sheet

This document provides guidance on camera settings for landscape photography. It recommends using a narrow aperture to achieve deep depth of field, using a low ISO setting to avoid noise in landscape shots, and using a tripod when shutter speeds are too slow to hand hold the camera and avoid blurry shots. It also suggests the bare essentials for great landscapes are a wide angle lens and a tripod.

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Landscape Photography Cheat Sheet

This document provides guidance on camera settings for landscape photography. It recommends using a narrow aperture to achieve deep depth of field, using a low ISO setting to avoid noise in landscape shots, and using a tripod when shutter speeds are too slow to hand hold the camera and avoid blurry shots. It also suggests the bare essentials for great landscapes are a wide angle lens and a tripod.

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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! 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
You will usually want to see a as leading lines.
bell shaped histogram that is
slightly to the right of center.
This makes post production Many landscape
easier as bringing a slightly photographers will also add a
over-exposed image down polarizing filter, an ND filter and
doesn’t introduce noise an ND Grad filter (individually
whereas increasing exposure or stacked).
in post on an under-exposed
image will.

Wind is your enemy so do


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

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