How To: Improve Your Landscape Photographs

Follow these three basic steps for harmony and balance in your landscapes.

| Published May 21, 2010 11:48 PM EDT

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Target practice chair, West Desert, UT, shot with a Canon EOS 5D and 17– 40mm f/4L Canon EF lens on tripod; 1/4 sec at f/22, ISO 100. Note how the horizon is placed one-third of the way down in the frame, and how the chair and sun land at one-third intersections (marked). Guy Tal

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Washer Woman rock framed by Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, UT, shot with Wista VX 4×5 view camera and 150mm f/5.6 Nikkor lens; 2 sec at f/45 on Fujichrome Velvia 100F. Guy Tal

Corn lilies, Uinta Mountains, UT, shot with Canon EOS 5D with 24– 105mm f/4L lens; 2 sec at f/22, ISO 100. Guy Tal

Dead juniper above Green River, Canyonlands; EOS 5D and 17–40mm f/4L Canon EF lens; 1/4 sec at f/16, ISO 100. Guy Tal

How To: Improve Your Landscape Photographs

How To: Improve Your Landscape Photographs

Slot canyon, Paria drainage, AZ: Canon EOS 5D woth 24-105mm f/4L Canon EF lens on tripod; 15 sec at f/16, ISO 100. Perspective is straight up to the canon opening.