Landscape Photography - Right Place & Time

Landscape photography is one of my hobbies. I am thinking of starting a blog with my photos and a couple of tips and tricks for creating great images. 
Like this image above, captured in the right place and right time, two things that are extremely important in landscape photography. I mean, this is rule for any kind of photographing, however, you will have a little bit more time to decide about composition and rest of capturing properties than you can have it in the sport's photography. 
For that particular image I spent overall more than 30 min for capturing, and 1 to 3 hours for post processing. Here is proof that sometimes you don't need spectacular places for shooting, just a regular seaside beach is good enough. 

Since "right place" is not so spectacular, you will need very good timing. For this image I wait for a big, but short storm in late afternoon, just before sunset. After the storm went away, still with raindrops in my face I took the camera and tripod and started to search for a good composition with great lighting.

Just before shooting this image on top, I also capture this image below during the beautiful sunset. Again, the location is not spectacular, just a regular small public beach, some island in the distance, and a small light pole in the sea. But again, timing is crucial. 


I spent 10 day of vacation at that place but there was only 1 hour of really spectacular light and atmosphere for capturing good photos.
The biggest problem is when you have little time and everything looks great around you, you will become very anxious, but in a good way, like an adrenaline rush. With that feeling you will start to shoot everything which is usually a bad thing because you will not take care about composition. In that situation you will need to slow down and find composition for shooting and spend all 30 min just for one photo. Usually, it's worth it.

I always enjoy post processing or editing of my photos. You can bring out a lot of data from your RAW image, like shadows and highlights, the most darken and lighten parts of your image. Beside that, you can adjust your color temperature, play around with lots of different sliders in your software. It is usually depends from image to image. Sometimes, when you have a batch of similar images from same location and same conditions, you can copy/paste your adjustments from image to image, or to all images that you select. 

Most people use Adobe Lightroom, which is a widely popular software all around the world. I used it for a few years, but now I am moving to another software - Capture One. Capture One is a similar software to Lightroom, but it has a little bit different approach in editing and postprocessing. I found that it better suits me because of a lot of things that you can do in different layers. More about that I will put and explain in a separate post.  

That's it for my first post. You have links to my Instagram profile as well to the YouTube channel on the left side of this Blog. 

 





Location: Zagreb, Croatia

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