How to Win a Landscape Photo Contest

By: Peter Eastway.

How to win a landscape photo Contest? What are the judges looking for? What sort of photos should you enter?

If I knew the answer to these questions, I’d win all the competitions, but naturally that’s not going to happen! Rather, what we have to do is work out what we want from a photography competition and go from there?

10 Quick Landscape Photography Tips

Source from dcworld.  

 

Improve your photos with our expert help. Here are 10 quick landscape photography tips to help you give your pictures a breath of fresh air. Whether you’re new to digital photography or just searching for new photo ideas, our quick and easy landscape photography tips and camera tips will help you take better pictures with the minimum of fuss.

 

1 The magic hour
Beautiful landscape photos are often defined by the quality of light they were taken in. As a consequence, photographers tend to shoot early in the morning or during late afternoons when the sun is lower, less contrasty and often displays a subtle colour palette of moody hues. For this reason, the hours after dawn and before dusk are known as the ‘magic hours’. If rising at dawn doesn’t sit well with your idea of a relaxing weekend, don’t panic – there are plenty of great landscape opportunities throughout the day.

How to Photograph the Milky Way in 12 Steps

By Jason D. Little on 4 Sep 2013 in Featured, Shooting 

Deep sky by j-dub1980(THANK YOU FOR 100k+ Views), on Flickr

I don’t recall ever meeting anyone who claimed to not be fascinated to some degree by the night sky. There’s just something hypnotic about gazing upon objects that are billions of years old and light years away, yet so many people feel a rather close affinity with these distant bodies. While the physical gulf between us and the stars is, in any currently feasible mode of manned travel, insurmountable, we’re generally content to simply stand out in the darkness and scan the skies unassisted by anything fancier than a basic telescope. Other than that, we have historically relied on all the breathtaking photos of space provided to us by the experts.

Beginning Photography Tips: Top 10 Techniques for Better Pictures

Source and by © Jim Miotke 2005.

Making beautiful photographs involves nothing more than a bit of thought. While it often helps to have decent equipment, all you really need is to take a moment before each shot to think clearly about what you are attempting to capture or create.The following guidelines are intended to help novice, non-artistic, and/or non-technical picture-takers immediately improve their photography.

If you would like to:

• Bring home much more pleasing memories from your travels;
• Make more artistic portraits of your family, pets, or friends;
• Be satisfied and excited instead of disappointed every time you look at your photos; or
• Simply enjoy the process of making pictures more;

Then read, study, and implement these simple guidelines.