LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS - MY TOP 100

Australia's leading professional landscape photographer Tom Putt gives his Landscape Photography Tips. With a career spanning over 20 years, Master Photographer Tom Putt has won over 150 International and National Awards and was the 2014 International Landscape Photographer of the Year runner up.

Here's Tom's Top 100 Landscape Photography Tips:

1. Look to the edges of the frame before shooting
2. Your tripod should be your best friend
3. Niche - find what you’re good at
4. Set yourself a project
5. A step to the left or right can make all the difference
6. Shoot backlit in forests when the sun is out
7. Use paths as leading lines in forests
8. Pretend you’re describing the photo to a friend…
9. The rule of thirds can be your greatest tool when starting out
10. Panos have never been so easy
11. Want to shoot differently? Crop differently
12. Use supporting actors to give the photo depth
13. Check your histogram after every shot
14. Be your harshest critic
15. 4 shots in every set up
16. A toilet bowl will always be a toilet bowl
17. Plan ahead - check the weather, tides, instagram
18. Check your camera every time for the right settings
19. Two filters - polariser and ND
20. Don’t clip your highlights!
21. Shoot in the blue hours
22. Clouds add drama
23. Give your subjects space to breathe
24. Use focus and brightness to direct the viewers eye
25. Less is more
26. Symmetry
27. Repetition
28. Snow, mist, fog
29. Steer away from HDR
30. Shoot for B+W
31. Walk around the tree
32. Fill the frame
33. Shoot to crop
34. Watch your backgrounds
35. Not seeing it? Sit down and observe
36. Wide angle - foreground, middle ground, background
37. Raise the bar
38. Take your hand at the start and end of a pano
39. Three digital copies at all times
40. 5 stars your favourites
41. Save your 5 stars to Dropbox
42. Drones are great!
43. Shopify to sell photos online
44. SEO is king
45. ISO 3200 for night skies
46. You don't need more gear
47. Download immediately
48. Buy a backpack twice as big as you need
49. Download the Photographer's Ephemeris app
50. Buy multiple tripod plates for all your cameras and lenses
51. Look for the best foreground
52. Invest in a good wide angle lens
53. F16 not F22
54. ISO100 
55. Focus stack
56. Get down low
57. Get up high
58. Shoot just clouds
59. F2.8
60. Shoot immediately after storms
61. Break the rules
62. Use leading lines
63. Get closer
64. Shoot into the sun
65. Use your long lens for abstracts
66. Challenge yourself to shoot as many different angles as possible
67. Be passionate about what you're shooting
68. Look for the WOW factor
69. The best photos aren't always a million miles away
70. No cable release? Use self timer
71. Focus one third into the frame from the bottom
72. Keep going back to the same location
73. Arrive on site at least 30 mins prior to the magic happening
74. Use dehaze to make your photos pop
75. Grad filters in LR 
76. Layers, Masks and Selections for PS - that's it!
77. Be patient
78. Shoot RAW
79. Better to get it on Auto than miss it on Manual
80. Previsualiation
81. Tell a story
82. Include the key elements
83. Exclude everything else
84. Shoot and learn from others
85. Take a course
86. Research locations with Instagram
87. You can't take the best landscape from your bed
88. Don't make it difficult
89. You won't get the best shot every time
90. Practice, Practice, Practice!
91. Educate yourself
92. Enter competitions
93. Visit galleries
94. Learn from your mistakes
95. LR - keep it real
96. Print your best work
97. Display your best work
98. Make multiple copies then crop each one differently
99. Continual learning
100. Come on my workshops! ;-)

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