1. B Y T H O M A S P H I L L I P S
MY LANDSCAPE PHOTOS

2. COMPOSITION
Throughout my photos I think I have captures with
good composition, mainly because with my photos I
would think about what I would like to have in the
image, and what points I’d like to be the key interest
within the photo. Good frame work also helped when
taking the photos, but if there was any kind of
unwanted part of the photo around the edges I
could crop them slightly so the photo would be more
cleaned up.

3. PHOTOGRAPHERS
• Mikko Lagerstedt- A lot of his photos have leading
lines.
• Guy Tal- Gets a very wide range of different
landscape photos.

4. LEADING LINES

5. LOCATIONS AND TIME OF DAY
For my photography shoots I mainly spent the time at
Cannock Chase, here I could get many different
varieties of landscape photos. For the shoot I set out
around 5pm and stayed out until 7-8pm this way the
lighting had a chance to change as I was moving
around the area. Other places I went to were around
the near area, going over to the canal and getting a
shot of the going along in the photo, along with a tree
overhang. The final place was a rape field where I
could use the yellow of the rape seeds as a kind of
background interest while the foreground could have
something else in focus.

6. TECHNICAL
With my photos one of the key things I didn’t want to
happen was to over or under expose the image, so I
would adjust the ISO, aperture and shutter speed
accordingly. I mainly kept the ISO within the 100-200
range and didn’t want to take it to high. With one of
the photos of the focused flower I captured it on F11
at 1/2500th of a second, this allowed me to keep in
focus on just the flower and blur out the background.

7. FOCUS POINTS

8. LEADING ACROSS THE IMAGE

9. SAFETY
Going to Cannock Chase there was plenty of trip
hazards and things which could cut ourselves. So to
prevent these hazards I would keep a clear eye on
where I would be walking and keeping track of my
rout so I couldn’t get lost in the massive area I
traveled. Avoiding these hazards also helped
damaging any of the equipment I used such as the
camera or tripod

10. DIFFERENT-SCAPES