Landscape, Sunsets and Skies

Landscape craft from composition to the sky, in thirteen tutorials. Lessons on composing by feel, choosing focal length, avoiding the softness of f/22 and focus stacking for front-to-back sharpness lead into a detailed guide to photographing and processing forests. Two videos chase dramatic clouds, and five cover sunrise and sunset: timing, settings, exposing for the sky and a full manual-mode sunset shoot.

12 Sep 2021

How to Make Better Landscape Photographs Today

Alister Benn asks what better means, admitting a dramatic 2015 Tibet image was fabricated for social media approval rather than drawn from what he witnessed. His remedy is to stop chasing popular templates and start practising the fundamentals of seeing, composing and exposing, guided by his five triggers of engagement.

26 Sep 2021

Landscape Photography Practice: How to Compose by Feel

Alister Benn revisits two places he has photographed for years, Kirkjufell in Iceland and a beach on Spain's north coast, tracing how his compositions evolved from the well-known 14mm aurora view, cropped to 4x5, to an icicle-framed cave shot in sleet, and arguing that composition is the arrangement of feeling.

23 Jan 2022

Sunset and Sunrise Photography Tips, Camera Settings and Gear

Paul from Photo Genius gives a beginner's guide to sunrise and sunset photography, built around 4am trips to a Brisbane bay and Howard Smith Wharves where nature rarely cooperates. Shooting a Nikon Z6, he covers gear, recommends cloudy white balance for warmer colour, and explains taking control of autofocus points.