This Will Change How You Compose Landscape Photos!
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- The composition can be hard and composing a landscape photo often comes with a lot of "rules". In this video, I will try to change your mind on how to think about composition in landscape photography so you can compose photos better. I go through a couple of handful of photos I captured on the same morning.
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0:00 - Intro, first photos, composition, balance
4:08 - Second photo, bracketing, HDR, order, and structure, and diagonal
7:22 - Last year's composition
7:59 - Third photo, wide-angle, depth, focus stacking, vertical vs horizontal
11:34 - Photo four and five. Sunbeams, light, sunstar, separation?
15:01 - Photo six: Central composition and keeping it simple
17:43 - Photo seven: S-curve, it is not super complex
19:08 - Join Landscape Composition Week for free!
20:10 - Last photo
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As someone who can't really read too much because I can't focus long enough and forget what I read or I just can't deal with looking at walls of text, the having lots of photos to visually demonstrate the concepts and minimal text is super amazing to me. I bought a bunch of books in the past because I wanted to learn things, never read them they just sit around. Very helpful to someone like me. Also having it be affordable. Thank you for making it accessible!
You are very welcome, Cody! I am happy to hear that, because that was the point 😁
In the 1st picture I like the image with the trail.
The photo without the path leads to the tree faster. So many beautiful options!
6:50 is my favorite. But they are all spectacular and inspiring.
I prefer the photo with the trail. It offers a break between the field of flowers as well as adding a contrast with the white flowers. following that as a leading line causes your eyes to spend more time looking at the beautiful flowers on the plants. Both are very nice but the left photo is my favorite.
1: With the trail. The darker color helps balance the photo. 2nd: The light in this photo is absolutely amazing. I love how it draws my attention to the white garlic and deeper into the photo. It is so far my favorite image. 3rd: Great tip on using the tree to hide the flares. 4th: Your 4th photo is now my favorite. The lighting is more balanced, and the overall the image is more interesting.
Your photos are gorgeous. I have so many boring images! I need to set out with something in mind as you demonstrate.
Thanks a lot, Margaret! I usually have some kind of plan or at least makes sure to photograph at interesting times of day in interesting locations :)
@@MadsPeterIversen On the other side of the same coin, I often come back with boring images because I go out with a plan, and then stick to it doggedly even though conditions don't match expectations.
Dear Margaret, My brother is a semi-professional photographer, and he once told me something that has really stuck in my mind, and it's something I've been able to apply to my own photography. He said, "A boring landscape will make a boring photo". Just try to find something in the landscape that you personally find interesting or appealing. That way the photograph will almost certainly appeal to others.
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6:40 has got to be my favourite, Love the look of that sunray through the trees and across the wild garlic! Can't wait for landscape composition week to start! So exciting!
13:19 That's my favorite, I like the atmosphere and the evenly distributed light with the beams.
I'm so jealous, that forest its so clean
I find the second picture absolutely gorgeous! I think what I like the most about this picture , is the fact that the camera is close to the ground and the flowers wich emphesizes their size and leads even more to the source of light with the sunbeam. On top of that, the contrast with the shadow is the icing on the cake and helps having a more constucted picture with a simple global composition.
Thanks a lot, it's also one of my favorites 😁
I like the left one, it invites me to explore that landscape
For the first image, with the trail (left one) looks better to me, not just because of the leading line, but also for the triangle shape, making the image more dynamic. That been said, all your photos are gorgeous.
What was most interesting for me to learn was that even during ‘white nights’ here in Northern Europe - forest photos can be interesting because the light is actually boring. It’s the forest cover that makes it look interesting but the sun is actually high. Great!
A beautiful morning! I especially like the first sunbeam photo.
I love the way you walk into your shots. One of the reasons why I subscribed to your channel. ✨
the photo without the trail appeals more to me and my favorite photo was the one around the 11:50 mark! Thanks for your wonderful videos and inspiration.
There was no photo with tail, but i agree, the one with the less trail 😂
Hey Mads, Love the s-curve! Probably more for the spontaneous… "oh, here's an s-curve, I must take a picture of that." I love your enthusiasm, almost child like wonderment! We all need more of this in our lives. As for your "Composition Week" is this a continuation from the last one or a repeat? Thank you for your joyful way of teaching and sharing with all of us.
I have been playing around with Photography for the past 20 years, but only started taking it as a serious hobby for the past 2 years. You Tube tutorial videos have been my main teacher, and your videos are among the better ones on here, very well done and professional. Thanks, and keep up the great work.
I can’t pick a favorite! They are all spectacular!
Thanks a lot, Randy! :D
Brilliant photos mate! Love your take on compositions and I love seeing what that does to your exposures. Awesome.
Hi Mads, thanks for all the help and inspiration. I prefer the left picture of the tree roots, I always like to be invited into a scene by a path or suchlike. This is also my favourite picture. I love tree roots, there is something very dynamic about them for me. They are like a giant multi-fingered hand clinging to the earth. Thanks again and all the best, Kev
That’s also my favourite 👍🏼
Such gorgeous captures. Thank you so much for sharing these!
I prefer the photo on the left with the path. I find it leads you into the shot better. My overall favourite would probably be the shot with the sun rays really popping through the background. The one with the long shadows of the trees in front - stunning shot.
Thanks for sharing Mads. I agree with the one you selected for your favourite image and for me the one which appeared immediately afterwards
Fantastic images Mads. I just LOVE these wild garlic scenes and wish we had that stuff here in the states!
I like the left using the trail as leading line to roots of the tree. It popped more for me. Thanks Mads
I coomment not very often bit the scenery espacially at 05:33 and of course your photos of it, are absolutely magic. Just wow!
Thank you Mads.. Excellent as usual, I like them all Always learn something new from you no matter how many times I re -watch this channel.
There is so much beauty in all these photos. For the first ones I definitely liked with the trail (on the left 3:08 ) better. Really love that one. Also the old one of the log, and the sun beams are wonderful.
Thanks Mads for a super video. I have just watched this for the first time and keen to go to have a go with woodland flowers. I was once told that it is impossible to capture the beauty of woodland flowers in a photo, you deomonstrate in this video that's not true. You are very generous in your teaching.
Beautiful video, Mads! Both your photography and videos have improved so much over the years! Keep going!
They're all nice. I do like the images that use paths as leading lines. It is a little trite, but it is common because it works so well! Still, this wonderful location, which you visit at an opportune time, yields many wonderful and more original photos as well.
I like the way you speak about the beauty of nature that obviously fascinates you. You’re inspiring.
I prefer the Left side as that small clear path takes your eye to the leading subject the tree. This is a awesome morning for taking woodland photography just imagine a light dusting of ground mist or fog, you be in your elements and them sun rays are just what one could wish for.
The second last and last one are my favourites.
I'm just amazed by the sheer amount and the size of the wild garlic in "your" forest!
Love your work! Such captivating stunning composition
That photo of the diagonal light coming through the cover across the garlic 😍😍😍 One of my all time favourites of yours Mads.
Amazing images as always 👌 I'm relatively new to using a dslr so all these tips are much appreciated
This is fantastic, good info and great information in balancing photos. I always get so hurried when I'm shooting, I'd like to start slowing down and thinking through my compositions like you do here.
I hear you about those ugly early in the morning starts. On the 10th I was getting out of my car at 4:14AM for a fast climb up Mt. Tom (Connecticut, USA) to catch the eclipse as it rose above the tree line. Of the two I prefer having the trail in the first image. But I agree with pdarnold, gotta love an S curve.
I prefer the photo with no path but my favourite is the one with sunstreekes about midway through the video. Thanks Mads.
I prefer the one without the trail and the photo at 16:45, classic path shot but has some light beams and makes me feel I'm there. Hardly saw the sun in south of England during May so didn't get any 'sunbeam' shots unfortunately but I did some scouting for next year and got a few shots with uniform light. The smell of a wild garlic forest is amazing!
Great photos as always.
Hello Mass, 1st time viewer and subscriber here. Really really appreciate your video here. Excellent points and something I struggle with in my photography. Composition and Light work so well together and finding that right balance has always been a challenge. So thanks much for the great video! Love the sun rays with the foreground covering 1/3 of the bottom. Keep up the great work!
Just amazing, extremely difficult to select one image as they are all so good, in saying that I will pick the one with the path in the centre and the sun beams shining through. Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks a lot and you very welcome, Ross :)
I prefer the picture on the left. Not only does the trail provide a leading line, but the contrast between the white flowers and the dark trail adds visual interest, and that balances the roots in the top of the photo.
Video is so peaceful that i mediated while watching this video.
It’s wild garlic season again 🥳🥳🥳. So lucky to have this close to you.
Photos, Without the trail. And the vertical sunbeam photos, a very ethereal feeling too them.
Keep going back, that elusive fog will happen. Thanks for sharing again Mads.
Stay safe 😷🇦🇺
Amazing pictures, location och great tips!
Great messages about structure and balance. My personal preference on your first shot is the one on the right, without the trail, as there is just enough of the trail to create balance without dominating the image. Thanks for sharing your work, Mads. Always enjoyable and informative. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
That shot with the ray of light was mindblowing!
I love the photo which is your favourite the most. All are beautiful but this one is simply stunning ❤
11.09 is my personal favourite. Atmospheric.... great use of mist.....makes me want to be there. Such an excellent video, filled with thoughtful tips and delivered in a wonderful down to earth way. You have a new subscriber here.
love all the images, all are favs
Another great video. I think my favorite was the shaft of light on the garlic leading into the sun and mist. Also the first set with the trail I like better with the use of the trail to lead into the roots
sooo beautiful... & soothing... must be all the greens & whites... thanks Mads 👊🙂
You are a godsend. Thank you for finding your eBook.
The last one down the path is a clear favourite for me
Mads, as always, enjoyed his weeks video. My personal favorite is photo 4 of the star sunbeams. I like individuality the light beams create.
I really liked the single sunbeam HDR like exposure bracketed image at timeline 6:30. Simple but made a great impact on me. I've filed that concept in my brain for use later. Thanks...
Hi, I'm new to your channel and immediately captivated, thank you for your knowledge. I liked photo 5, around the 13.20 mark. Can't say composition wise what attracts me to it more just the feeling it gives me.
The one with the trail is for me the best one. This due to the line of missing flowers (the hidden track) at the second picture.
I think both pictures are showing a little too much. The roots of the tree are more exciting than the background above the "horizon".
Ty for sharing. Your work is beautiful and invokes emotion within me. Which is something that I look for often in mine and others shoots. Ty
Brilliant mate. Really enjoyed that. Thanks
Hi Peter
That was a great tutorial. Composition is such an unappreciated aspect of photography and your video does an amazing job to focus on it. The slow, easy going & patient way in which you have created this video is highly appreciated, specially in these times. Your work reflects perfectly on the subject of composition and photography overall and it exactly how it should be....nice and slow...with a lot of patient
Thanks & 5 stars from me
Really beautiful landscape photographs. My favourite one was the first image that you shot which was at the left side with a leading line to the trees and their roots.
What a gorgeous forest. And you are very talented.
Without the trail and my favorite is the single diagonal light across the flowers but maybe darken the shadows more. Those four trees look great too!
Thanks for sharing all this blessed knowledge. May God continue to illuminate your life and may we increasingly acquire a little bit of all this talent. Greetings from Brazil!
I preferred the image on the right. While the path should be the leading line, the photo without the path seemed more pleasing.
Personally I prefer the photograph with the trail, but maybe that's simply because I love photographs of trails and pathways. So much so, that I have an entire folder full of photographs I've taken of this subject. But, having said that, the shot with the wild garlic is absolutely beautiful!
what a beautiful forrest....and pictures
Pleasant presentation (you can be an actor too!), beautiful scenes, beautiful captures and beautiful background music, Thanks for sharing!
Love the left. You really are an amazing photographer.
Denmark looks just like where I live in Northern Wisconsin so I appreciate the tutorials about finding compositions in a similar forest. I agree with you about the sunstars. The sun is a giant bright ball with no light spikes and I think it looks better to hide the sun
For me it is no 3 as I really like your vertical wide angle style, photo 3 has beautiful wild garlic big in the foreground and amazing sun beams giving it a mystic feeling. Well done 😊
What beautiful photos and great advice. I'm not even a landscape photographer, i do more like cinematic style urban landscape and film. But these are just beautlful. Make me want to try it out for a change of pace
Your photos are so beautiful. My favorite ome is the vertical with the first strong sunbeams before the horizontal image with sunbeams. It looks like a moment of Lords of the rings. Very impressive 😍
Your image of the diagonal sunbeam back-lighting the white garlic is outstanding! Good video!
Excellent work. Worth every moment of the morning out in the forest.
Thanks a lot, Gavin! It sure is 😁
I can't pick a favourite photo - I'd be ecstatic with any of those. Another great and helpful video, thanks Mads.
That's a really good and constructive video, with beautiful forest inspiration, Well done!
As for the preferred pic, I'd go for one with path. I find it a little better balanced than the other one and the leading lines form the path does the job of driving the eyes allthe way down to the top of the image ;).
Thanks for this.
I love both! Well done!!
I like the shot where the trail is hidden because I think the viewer can see that there is a trail there with further inspection and that accentuates the height of the flowers.
With The trail catch my sight more. Its great
The second photo is my favourite. I just think the contrast is just right. And in the first pair of photos i prefer the one on the right. The path is still recognizable but a little more subtle. Anyway you were blessed with a beautiful morning.
Stunning images and nicely explained :)
Wild Garlic? Who knew? Amazing photos. I am hard pressed to pick a favorite.
Beautiful images as always. Really enjoying your home country of Denmark. No matter where you are you manage to find the best. Your sunbeam images are magnificent love them all. Of the first two images my favourite would the one on the left. I think more of the path makes the shot. Love your content.🙂🙂
Thank you brother.
Mads, I very much enjoyed this video, my opinion one of your recent best. I like the photo at approx. 13:20 with light rays exposed from behind the trees. One of the main reasons is because of the effect the light rays have on your foreground in the image. Very much looking forward to your upcoming compositional training.
Mads mentions you can get the lite versions of his books to help you decide if you want them, but I recommend just buying them ... very good and worth every penny!
Nice to hear I'm not the only one that's not a fan of sun stars, I think it makes images look "too" digital, much prefer sun rays that are more diffused and ethereal. Good job as always Mads. 📷✌️💚
Great and simple...thanks for the enlightenment
You Are good Mads Peter!
I think I like the landscape format image at about the 6:50 mark. There is just something about the background color behind the trees on the right that has a touch of blue to it and feels like it is almost under water.
You should go to Trelde Næs Southeast side of Vejle Fjord. There is by the lighthouse a "troldskov" with wild garlic below and ivy growing on many trunks. Very interesting scenery.
And there is also a quite dramatic eroding sea cost that you may like.
On the first shot, I like the one on the left; the clearer trail draws me to the mid and background.
I also prefer the trail, aesthetically and because it implies more of a story to me.
Enjoyed your video. Your images look gorgeous.