--- title: Landscape Photography description: Landscape photography is the practice of capturing natural and urban environments. You will understand how to plan shoots around weather and golden hours, utilize wide-angle lenses and filters, and compose vast scenes to convey scale and atmosphere. category: arts-design subcategory: photography difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/photography-landscape-photography --- # Landscape Photography Landscape photography is the practice of capturing natural and urban environments. You will understand how to plan shoots around weather and golden hours, utilize wide-angle lenses and filters, and compose vast scenes to convey scale and atmosphere. ## Available Resources 5 Books • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Photographylife.com Long-running photography education site run by Nasim Mansurov, with in-depth landscape tutorials on composition, filters, exposure blending, and field technique alongside gear reviews. Free articles that take you from basic camera settings to a repeatable landscape workflow. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://photographylife.com/landscape-photography **Tags:** landscape-photography, composition, photography-tutorials, post-processing, camera-settings ### 2. naturephotographers.network Nature Photographers Network is an online community for nature and wildlife photographers that features member photo galleries, forums, and educational resources on techniques, fieldcraft, and post-processing. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://naturephotographers.network **Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts ### 3. outdoorphotographer.com Outdoorphotographer.com is the online home of the Outdoor Photographer magazine, offering tips, techniques, gear reviews, and inspiring stories for landscape and nature photographers. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://outdoorphotographer.com **Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts ## Podcasts ### 1. The Landscape Photography Podcast **Author:** Nick Page Interview and discussion show hosted by working landscape photographer Nick Page, covering field craft, weather and light, gear choices, post-processing, and the business of workshops. Episodes give practical shooting decisions rather than gear news. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://the-landscape-photography.blubrry.net **Tags:** landscape-photography, photography-podcast, field-technique, post-processing, photography-business ## Books ### 1. The Art of Landscape Photography **Author:** Ross Hoddinott & Mark Bauer Hoddinott and Bauer cover reading light and weather, composing with strong foregrounds, filter use, and long exposures, plus planning shoots around tides and seasons. Readers finish able to scout locations and expose deliberately rather than react to conditions. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1781450528?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts ### 2. Landscape Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots **Author:** Rob Sheppard Sheppard pairs each landscape technique with the camera settings behind it, covering exposure choices, depth of field, filters, composition, and basic raw processing. Aimed at photographers who own a capable camera but shoot mostly on automatic. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/032182377X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts ### 3. The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photographs **Author:** Michael Freeman Freeman analyses composition and design in photographs: framing, balance, dynamic tension, and the graphic elements of an image. Readers learn to plan a frame deliberately rather than crop later, and to explain why a picture works. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1905814046?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** photography, composition, visual-design, framing ### 4. Photographing the World Around You **Author:** Freeman Patterson Patterson's visual design workshop treats photography as a way of seeing: line, shape, texture, perspective, and color, with exercises that train observation. Less about equipment than about recognizing why an arrangement of elements holds together. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1550135902?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, photography ### 5. The Landscape Photography Book **Author:** Scott Kelby Kelby gives step-by-step settings, gear choices, and field routines for shooting landscapes, plus the Lightroom and Photoshop steps he uses afterward. Written as short practical answers rather than theory, aimed at getting usable frames on a first outing. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681984326?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. 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