title: Landscape Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots
author:  Rob Sheppard 
description: Rob Sheppard is a photographer, author, naturalist and nature photographer, editor and videographer. He has written and photographed many books and magazine articles but what is most important to him about them is knowing that he has helped people become better photographers and gain a better connection to nature. Rob is a Fellow with the North American Nature Photography Association, and many people also know him as the long-time, previous editor of <i>Outdoor Photographer</i> magazine. Some of the books he has done: <i>Landscape Photography: From Snapshot to Great Shot, Macro Photography: From Snapshot to Great Shot,</i> <i>The Magic of Digital Nature Photography, National Geographic Field Guide to Digital Photography, </i>and<i> Reports from the Field (an iBook). </i>His website is at joyofnatureandphotography.com, blog at natureandphotography.com.
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  WAYS TO TAKE BETTER
  LANDSCAPE
  PHOTOGRAPHS
  GUY EDWARDES
  
  Contents
  Introduction
  Landscape photography basics
  Light and the landscape
  Capturing atmosphere
  The wider landscape
  The distant landscape
  Coastal landscape
  Town and country
  The seasons
  Landscape details
  Creative landscape photography
  
  Introduction
  Simply recording the landscape with a camera is easy, but to take great
  landscape photographs requires a totally different approach. In fact,
  landscapes are one of the most difficult subjects to capture successfully
  in a photograph. It isn’t easy to catch the drama, depth, colour and
  atmosphere of a magnificent landscape scene, as these attributes,
  which make the scene so special at the time, can be lost in the
  photograph itself. It’s not always a question of what to include in the
  composition; more often it is what to exclude in order to concentrate
  attention on the most important part of the scene before you.
  ‘Point and shoot’ photography will never produce consistently high qualit