10 Techniques to Transform Your Landscapes

HERE'S WHAT'S INSIDE 10 TECHNIQUES

• Guided learning at your own pace. There are 11 individual lessons, each with 3-4 chapters on specific, digestible topics. Each chapter builds off the previous chapters to provide you with the essential building blocks for creating beautiful landscape photos.


• Photo Challenges to help you reinforce the ideas contained in each lesson. By practicing each skill you hammer them home and make them second nature.


• Bonuses to help your learning. There are tons of example images, cheatsheets, notes, and guides to accompany the lessons, helping you get the most out of the course.


• Access to a Community of like-minded photographers to share photos and ideas with, and get feedback from.


• Office hours with Josh to give you an opportunity to ask questions and get personalized mentoring.

HOW TO IMPROVE EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR PHOTOS: CAMERA TECHNIQUE, COMPOSITION, LIGHT, SUBJECT, AND CREATIVITY

Over 11 distinct lessons you'll learn all about:

Finding Mesmerizing Subjects. You'll learn techniques to understand what the most interesting and engaging subjects are in any landscape, how to accentuate them, and how to minimize distractions.

• Learn to pick out the best foregrounds for your photos by understanding the three kinds of contrast.
  
• Techniques to emphasize one subject over another in your compositions. (Hint: it's all about body position and lens choice.)
  
• Three simple questions to ask yourself in order to understand WHAT you're photographing, HOW you can emphasize what's important, and WHY you are making the decisions you are.

Camera Technique. There are a thousand courses out there to teach you about aperture and shutter speed. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. This course teaches you how to apply those settings creatively to bring your artistic vision to life. How to direct your vision into a series of decisions so you get the exact detail and sharpness you want, the colors you love, the motion you feel, and the clarity you desire. You will learn:

• Techniques to get the best possible RAW data.
• Techniques to get the sharpest, most detailed photos.
  
• What picture controls and styles are and how they could be hurting you in the field.
• How to choose the RIGHT camera settings for every photo based on what's important to you.
• How to get a perfect exposure every single time.
• How to focus for front-to-back sharpness every single time.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about long exposures, including how to create them, how to use a 10-stop filter, and how to shoot long exposures without a tripod for fun, creative imagery.

Composition. Composition is the number one thing most photographers want to learn but they get stuck trying to listen to too much theory. This course gives you practical strategies to different kinds of compositions so you have a toolkit for different situations. Lessons include:

• How to use a wide-angle lens to create a sense of "being there."
• How to use natural parts of the landscape to direct your viewers' attention exactly where you want.
• Techniques to simplify your wide-angle photos to make more powerful compositions and remove distractions.
• Small compositional tweaks for big results. Learn to identify situations when 6" to the left or right will make all the difference.
• Learn where to place multiple strong subjects in the frame for maximum visual balance.
• Learn about visual tension and how to use it to fill your frame for powerful compositions.
• Understand fundamental, practical ideas for better intimate, abstract, and telephoto compositions.
• How to see the world as abstract, two-dimensional shapes and how this gives you tremendous control over your compositions.

Light, Color, and Detail. You'll gain an understanding of how important light is to your photos and what you can do to bring out the best in your images. Learn when to shoot, and when not to. Learn how to listen to the landscape to improve your luck and take home ten times more keeper shots. Learn about filters and how they can add that extra little oomph to your shots.

• Learn what kind of light works for different scenes and when to shoot each one for best results.
• Learn how to improve your luck in the field so you always find good light and come home with more keepers. Yes, you can control this!
  
• How to use a circular polarizing filter like a champ.
  
• What grad ND filters are, how to use them, and best practices for getting beautiful, painterly light in your photos.

Creativity and "Seeing the Shot"

• You and the camera see the world differently. Once you understand how you can make your camera work for you.
• Practical, effective exercises to improve your creativity, seeing, and technical skills.

Key Concepts That You Must Understand as a Landscape Photographer.

• The four elements CRITICAL to every great photo. If you don't like an image, it's because it's missing one of these things. Learn to identify and strengthen all the parts of your photo.
• Three simple questions to ask yourself in order to understand WHAT you're photographing, HOW you can emphasize what's important, and WHY you are making the decisions you are.
• Create a checklist to take human error out of the equation so that your photos are the best they can possibly be.

Creating EPIC landscapes. At the end of the course you'll put all of the lessons together to learn how to craft epic landscapes like the ones you see in magazines. You'll learn the essential building blocks required to craft a picture-perfect grand landscape photo from start to finish.