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Thread: landscape help

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    landscape help

    I don't really know anything about landscape photography (and haven't really spent any time looking at it) but I was out shooting this past weekend and decided to snap a quick shot of some of the scenery. Any suggestions about how to improve this shot (at the picture taking step, not necessarily in post processing) would be greatly appreciated. Basically I am looking for some basic tips on how to do a landscape shot of something like this scene.

    Camera: Canon EOS Rebel XT
    Lens: EF-s 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm
    Aperture: f/8
    ISO: 400
    Shutter speed = 1/100 sec

    I was not really prepared for this shot when I set out so didn't have my tripod handy so this one was hand-held I am guessing a tripod might have allowed for a bit more detail to have been captured.

    I tried to focus on the middle tree to get as much of the scene in focus as possible and I tried to meter partially off the sky and partially from the trees so I did not blow the sky out or lose all detail of the trees in the shadows.

    Any compositional suggestions on how to make this a stronger picture would be great too. I was thinking of something like a guy out in a boat fishing or something would be nice but probably wouldn't be practical and might be a bit too cliche though this picture might already be too cliche.

    Thanks,

    Greg
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    Re: landscape help

    A very nice shot, You sure you're just getting started?

    If you could move back a bit or zoom out to include the top of the tree on the right it would be a bit stronger, IMHO. I like the subtle color and sky detail and the placement of stuff with in the composition is fine.
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