>>2438889>How do you guys get good at outdoors photography?1. Learn about photography composition. Things like the rule of thirds and what draws a person into a picture. How should composition differ between landscape photography and subject (portrait) photography?
2. Learn about ambient lighting. How will dawn, noon, dusk, and night affect your pictures? What can you do to manage different situations? When should you use a tripod, a ND-filter, or a polarized filter?
3. Learn about the relationship between ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed and how it affects your pictures so you can decide what your photo needs.
4. Learn about post production techniques and what will help create images you like or perhaps salvage a photo that didn't turn out as expected. Photoshop isn't necessarily required, even much simpler software that helps to adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, and white balance can be enough.
5. Use a digital camera so that you can take lots of pictures to practice. When you find a scene that you want to photograph, take 5-10 photos with different camera settings and slightly different compositions, you will eventually learn to intuit what will work best and you can take less photos. If you see something you like you should always do multiple shots in case the focus doesn't quite turn out as expected or there is some other problem. Plan days where your goal is to take pictures of boring things and make them look good/interesting. A picture of a pair of shoes, or park bench, or whatever, can look 'magazine quality.'
You can watch videos on youtube or read articles or buy books or take an in-person class that will cover all of these topics.
