Composition MISTAKES to AVOID in Landscape Photography
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In this week’s episode, we discuss composition mistakes to avoid in landscape photography. I recently stumbled across a file on an old computer that contained my favorite images from when I was beginning with landscape photography. As I reviewed these images I noticed the same three compositional mistakes repeated over and over. If you haven't taken the time to review your images from the past in order to compare them to your photos from the present, I highly recommend that you do. This is an incredible way to see your photographic progression within your specific genre of photography.
In this video, I review the images contained within my favorite landscape photography photos folder and discuss the compositional mistakes that impacted them. The funny thing about these mistakes is that not only are they very avoidable, but I would have been able to resolve them much sooner had I known about them at the time. The three issues I noticed in my older photos are all compositional mistakes that generally impact most beginners at one point or another, but once you know about them they're easy to fix.
Composition is one of the most important aspects of a great landscape photo and it's certainly one of the most difficult components of photography as well. Hopefully you'll be able to take away a few composition tips from this week's episode that you can apply to your landscape photography moving forward.
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What’s the most frequent compositional mistake that plagues you?
Quite frankly... These still bug specially not getting low enough. I often find my self focusing to much on the focus of the image, that I miss the edge stuff... I end up cropping, but loose too much of the in age...
Great video.. Oh an BTW.. Continuing our edge distraction conversation... What was that crumpled peice of paper? What's it on purpose 🤔🤔🤔
Not paying enough attention to edges. But, as far as keeping horizons straight, everybody even remotely serious about landscape should get a bubble level. They sell for a few dollars and are invaluable.
the horizon for sure
@@KaReEdCa Thanks Carlos! Super glad to hear you enjoyed this weeks episode!
@@haimtoeg I agree! Gotta keep those horizons perfectly straight!
Agreed with going back thru your old work. Learning and maturing is always an interesting thing to be able to see. I love your perspectives. Glad I found you!!!
Thanks a lot dear Mark, it's always amazing to hear from the experts
Glad to do it friend!
Your best idea here is photographing from a portrait orientation! Many of my pics would have been much improved had I changed the orientation. Many thanks!
walt Durling Glad the video was helpful Walt!
It's encouraging to know that I'm not alone in making some of these mistakes. While Mark is talking about some of these mistakes I can think of specific photos of mine that I've done it. Also it's good for me to remember that you can still love a photo even if it isn't perfect.
Hi, what a fantastic video. Keep up the good work! I look forward to your next video.
Thank you for all your insights. It helps re-evaluate ones manner of taking photos! Looking forward to more of your videos.
Agapito Rene Conchu Glad to do it and thank YOU for watching it👍
Very helpful! I need to go back and look at some of my old photos again. Thanks for the tips!
Glad to do it Eric! It's such a worthwhile exercise!
I mustve miss this video. I came across some of my older photos I took and you are SO right, I could see the mistakes I was doing back then and how my photos have been changing for the better since then. I have to credit you for a lot of ideas and tips that I've learnt and which is making me tune up my landscape photography :) So once again a HUGE thank you SO much for your time and all your tips and ideas on capturing better photos Mark 👍 Much appreciated 😃
Awesome video as usual, Mark! Your videos are so pleasant to watch. Thank you for that.
Mike Araujo Glad to do it Mike! Great to hear your enjoying the channel👍
Great learnings Mark! Thank you so much for being this humble and wonderful teacher. These are very thoughtful composition lessons. Keeping this like a checklist for myself..... Sincere thanks, yet again.... Cheers
Thanks so much!
Thank you for the helpful tips. I have been told to work more on composition and it does help seeing your examples
Suki Okido My pleasure Suki!
Thank you for a great video Mark. Really appreciate the lessons and really admire your humility.
Another good video, Mark. Lots of food for thought on shooting in portrait and watching those edges. Thanks!
D R Smith Many thanks for watching👍
Great tips. I’m looking forward to going back over some old images.
Surprisingly these are the exact mistakes I make these days! Thank you Mark, never realised those are mistakes and can affect the whole composition! 🙏🏽
Ragesh Nair Great to hear the video was helpful!
Mark, I am absolutely loving your videos man! Teaching me a ton of stuff! Thank you so much! You are making me stoked to get started taking landscape photos of my own! If I can capture some shots that look even half as good as yours on my travels, I will be so happy. Excited to binge-watch the rest of your vids.
Cody Montgomery Thanks so much Cody! Pumped to hear the channel is helping ya👍
Excellent tips!! Thank you so much for putting this video together 🙏🙋♂️👌💯
Aurimas Peseckis Much appreciated- thank ya!
Great video! I have to be sure to get lower and also start using the portrait perspective more in my landscape images!
Again a great video Mark. It is always good to go back and look at old images to see what progress you have made. I had a good laugh at some of mine
Many thanks Jan! Yep, it can be great for a chuckle sometimes:)
Great and honest work. I find myself in it a lot. Thank you for helping to get better photos
Amazing advice! Thank you Mark!
Thanks for the tips. Im going to go through some of my old work this weekend.
Eric Lash Glad to do it Eric👍
Perfectly agree, i always start to shoot at all the level, from the ground to where i can reach on high
Thanks, really useful. I love your honesty and humility as well.
Great pearls of wisdom Mr. Denny. In pursuit of avoiding busy edges, I am guilty of a lot a sliver skies.
Erik Swenson Haha! “Sliver Skies” - I like that!
Great video, I went back and saw a lot of busy edges in my photos. Keep up the good work!
Much appreciated - thank you!
Thank you for these videos Mark, just going down the rabbit hole with photography and your story is very inspirational. I've just gotten started on your massive trove of excellent looking content and I am very grateful that you have shared this incredible real world experience you have to offer.
Alex Royster Glad to do it Alex! Many thanks for checking out the videos!
Great video Mark. Such simple traits to work on. Keep up the good work.
Wes Baynham Thanks Wes!
Very helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your personal experiences. Hoping to see more.
Bill Xie Great to hear - thanks Bill!
Great tips Mark! I’ve gone back through a lot of my photos in the last year and have made similar observations. Some of my favorite shots from the past could have been so much better by just spending a little more time thinking about how I was going to edit it. I also wish I’d started shooting raw years ago. Now that my editing skills are more developed, I revisited some old compositions that I loved and found them only in jpg, which made it much harder to get out of them what I wanted.
Thanks David! Really appreciate it!
Excellent description of mistakes to avoid. Great communicator.
Roy Sheets Thanks so much Roy!
Thank you so much Mark. one of your best videos so far.
amin motamedi Oh wow!!! Really appreciate that👍
You are one of the rare photographers that is honest and critics their own images. This video helped me a lot. Thanks
Really helpful thoughts here. I think just leaving the main thing in the centre was my biggest mistake until I started trying to be more organised in my thinking. Keep up the great work Mark!
Richard Newland Many Thanks Richard! Always appreciate you watching!
Hello Mark. I recently discovered your channel and I would like to commend you for your photography journey following your departure from the corporate world. Anyone can see how much you are enjoying your new career and success. Well done! And thank you for your tutorials. You are an inspiration for many of us.
Jorge Thanks so much Jorge - very kind of you to say!
Great content as always, Mark! Thanks!
Spyros Pandis Many Thanks!!
Thanks for the brilliant photography tips Mark I've started applying them and it definitely helps 👍🏻
Glad to do it and thank you for watching them!
Helpful video,thank you,Mark !
Nedyalko Ketev Glad to hear it!
Thank you and much appreciated, very informative as usual!
Denis Comeau Appreciate ya Denis! Thanks for watching this week’s episode!
Great advice for me to follow for sure as I move into more landscapes. Thx
Pace Clyncke Glad to do it Pace! Thank YOU for watching it👍
Great Tips!!! Def. guilty of these in my work, I like your style Mark. Keep up the great content!!!!
Solstice Photoworks Thanks so much!
Thanks for the tips. I do look at past photos. Sometimes I think those are good and sometimes I think not so good.
Excellent video! Very good content with great advice. Keep up the great work. Just discovered you today and your now at the top of my list for photographers videos.
Awesome to hear - thanks so much, you made my afternoon!
Always a pleasure watching your vids. So much to learn. Thank you.
Thanks so much!
Excellent advice again. Thanks for sharing your mistakes.
Jane Andrew Glad you think so Jane🙏
Superb material as usual. Practical and well presented. Thx
John Couvaras Much appreciated John!
Another great video! Thank you!
Great tips and thanks for sharing your past pictures and experience!
Glad to do it! Appreciate you watching this week!
Great discussion and examples. Busy edges is my biggest problem lately, as I also try to follow the mantra of "get closer"... :)
whafrog It’s certainly something that still trips me up at times as well.
Excellent teacher, very generous with his very valuable knowledge and experience
The portrait mode tip reminded me of something I have started doing which is panoramas using the camera in portrait mode. So five to six shots in portrait mode overlapping at least 1/3 and you will have all the flexibility to crop and keep edges clean.
Yes! I shoot all my panos in a portrait orientation!
Hey this was awesome, thank you!
Great video! I have learned so much from your video. Keep up the good work 👍
hognis Great to hear - really appreciate you watching!
Great video just wanted to stop by and thank you especially for the tip on clean edges - didn't realise I was doing this but making cleaning up my edges my challenge for this weekend. Good stuff!
Thanks so much! Great to heat the video was helpful!
Absolutely love your old pictures. I was suprised to see the Arthur Ravenel Bridge in SC! I had just edited my own from a recent trip. Absolutely beautiful shot. Mine was taken from the docs seen below. I wish I had found a spot further out as you had.
Nicholas Haile Thanks so much! That’s on of my favorite south east bridges👍
Good tips with great examples to show what you mean. I subscribed.
Paul met Debbie Many thanks for watching & subscribing🙏
Omg 😱. I really liked your old photos
Love this. Great reminders. I’ve been shooting too much eye level! Thanks! 🙏😁
Melissa Hall Thanks Melissa! Great to hear you enjoyed it👍
As always, thumbs up. And yes I share your pain with the back issues.
Great insights... very common beginner’s perspectives. Thanks!
Thanks Valdis!
thank you so much, i dont usually leave comment in youtube, but yours are simple and informative. gotta thanks you properly
min min I’m glad you did - thank you!
Thank you for sharing your experience. You just saved me a few years. :)
Haha! Excellent!
Love your videos, very entertaining and very helpful. 👌
Musab Al Rawahi Thanks so much - that’s great to hear👍
Great video Mark. These are great tips to look for. I know I'm very guilty of most of my photos being at eye-level. However, one thing I always check when editing is my horizon...LOL. Thanks again!!
Teresa May Many thanks for watching Teresa!
Always good to be reminded of composition tips. I often cringe when looking at images I took 5-10 years ago. I often say to myself : what was I thinking, or actually what was I NOT thinking about! Thank goodness for the crop tool saving some!
Yes! The crop tool!
Mark, Great tips! Thanks.
Great to hear - thank you!
Wonderful video Mark. Appreciate your honesty. If I could add to your list of three, I probably would say that I over edited my earlier images.
naveen chakravarthy Ahhh Yes! I think we’ve all been there for sure👍
Thanks for the tips, I'm one of those who still doesn't know what style I like the most, so, I made mistakes on a bunch of pictures, I started at mid 2017 so, one of my biggest at landscape photography was that in those beginner pictures i constantly had the crooked horizon, my god, so many, I didn’t consider it that at all, the good thing is that most of them I can correct them in Post now, but depends on the picture, lots of them I can't even fix without "losing" the composition, so now I pay really attention to the horizon. Great videos Mark, love the way you teach and explain everything, any advice to someone that doesn’t know what style likes the most, I always loved portraits and landscapes, Portraits because when I was like 12 years old (29 years ago) my father let me use is Olympus OM-G - Film of course - and cause I took good pictures at home at family parties to my family relatives I got the taste for that, and I love Landscapes because nature is beautiful and I live in São Miguel - Azores - Portugal ( islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. my Business IG @memoriae.photo - IG from the islands IG: @visitazores (sorry the long comment :)
Really really great video this week Mark! Takes some stones to put up early photos and criticize them to the world.
I do go through old photos quite often really. And I embarrass myself when I look at them, especially after I remember I put them on social media. I think one of my biggest mistakes would be having busy edges. It's not something I ever really seem to pay attention to. Also, I seem to sometimes forget to actually frame a subject.. I end up capturing the subject but the photo is chaotic because I didn't frame it well.
Appreciate another great video my friend! See you next week!
Yeah, busy edges are the one that still gets me from time to time, some scenes it's easy to clean up the edges, but others I wrestle with forever trying to keep a clean frame. Appreciate ya Erick!
Very helpful, thanks 🙌
Very good Mark. Thanks mate
Jim Demetriou Thank ya Jim!
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing.
Glad to do it! Thank YOU for watching it!
I made ALL those mistakes over about the same time frame as you! Self criticism is how we learn. Many thanks for these reminders.
1spitfirepilot Yep! 100% agree with ya👍
Great video Mark! Great T-shirt too. Now I understand the back issues (from an old paratrooper). I cringe every time I dig into the old folders, but maybe it’s time to learn some more lessons. Thanks for sharing Mark!
Much appreciated Ryan! I saw the shirt online a few weeks ago and just had to have it - great movie!
Fascinating presentation, working from your own mistakes.
Tim L.B. Many thanks Tim!
LOL. I actually liked your initial batch of "high & wide shots and preferred them over the succeeding examples you shot closer to the ground.
very helpful. Thanx Mark
SlickPickChick Glad to do it! Appreciate you watching!
Thanks Mark will look into the points made over my mini trip. Btw way tried the blue light other day and I really think it will be a larger part of my shots in moving forward thanks
Robert Nelson Awesome to hear Robert! I’m glad you stopped by to let me know!
Thanks Mark, great tutorial.
Collin Anderson Thanks Collin!
Some great tips! Thank you.
William Hager Thank ya William!
Always informative.Hope to see more regarding composition mistakes
Thank ya friend!
Very good tips! I'll try to remember them. :)
Jon Doe Thanks Jon! Glad you think so!
Similar experiences. I changed out my screen into a grid pattern in rule of thirds which stops me and makes me think about composition firstly and avoiding shotgun shots where POI is in the middle of shot. If carefully positioned sometimes those extraneous items on the edge can help frame shot and lead viewers eye to the POI. I like your tutes a lot. Thank you
Thanks Michael! Great to hear the videos are helpful!
Thanks this is good information, I didn't realize I've been doing the same thing.
Theodore Sweger Glad to do it Theodore!
Thanks for the tips, they're very helpful.
whunt29708 Glad to do it and thank you for watching!
Last year I started getting lower on my photos, though I don't always remember to do it and I'm often with my family who doesn't have the patience to wait for me to get everything out and compose a photo so I just take it while walking. But I have seen getting low definitely helps! And I hadn't thought about the edges before. I'm going to go look at a bunch of recent photos I liked to see what my edges are like! Great video, thanks!!
Richard Uchytil Thabks Richard! Great to know you enjoyed the video!
Thanks for the information! 😊
Little things really matters alot.
Abhinav Singh Indeed👍 Thanks for watching the video!
Great tips and examples. No better teacher than experience so I can't wait to go out and put these tips to work.
Many thanks! I agree - nothing beat experience!
Great and useful video, thanks a lot !
Riccardo Pareschi Glad to do it Riccardo! Thank yoU for watching!
This is a very good video! Subscribed. I did all the same mistakes and I still have to double check horizon level in Lightroom on the bigger screen :) Thanks for the quality content!
Pauli Timonen Glad to do it Pauli! Great to hear you enjoyed the video.
I do only mistakes. All kind of mistakes. I personally thanks to you for sharing a wonderful experience of mistakes.
Especially in bridge image, after cropping, the image looks much more pleasing to view. Shadows are becoming Nice natural leading lines. Great.
Ravi Chandran Many Thanks - great to hear you enjoyed it!
Very helpful. Thanks
Great video. Keep up the good work
Martin Westberg Much appreciated Martin!
Thanks for tips!!
Stephanie Prevost Glad to do it Stephanie!
Love this video thank you! From your neighbor in Sanford.
J Ray My pleasure neighbor👍
Really enjoyed your self-critique for some reason I always have more willingness to listen to people when they are saying this is what (I) do, did ,as opposed to this is what you should do.
On a side note about composition probably because I am old but I kept staring at that sony walkman I used to haul to the gym back in the 90's!lol.
Acraftman Glad to hear it! Loved the Walkman - the original iPod.
Great information, Mark
Scott Mentink Thanks Scott!
Great advice. I like the tip on the edges. Ive found that to be the case is some of my photos as well and it doesnt look right.
drum4life42 Thanks so much!
OMG. I have 14 images in my living room TWELVE...12....are Landscape Orientation!!!! Definitely going to try more Portrait orientation...your sand/water/sky horizontal to vertical was a very powerful example. Thank you
Rae Webb Thanks for checking out the video Rae - happy to hear it was helpful!