8 BEGINNER Landscape Photography MISTAKES That’ll HURT You the MOST!!

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In this week’s episode, we discuss 8 beginner landscape photography mistakes that'll impact you the most! I talk about mistakes rather often on my channel for two very important reasons. The first is because I'm not afraid to admit that I'm human and I make mistakes, I'm not the world's best landscape photographer - far from it in fact, but I am a better photographer this year then I was last year and I am better today then I was yesterday. The second reason is because I don't believe there's a better learning opportunity that exists today than that of making mistakes - understanding what Not to do is just as important as understanding what To do.

In this video, I'll walk you through the 8 mistakes that I made when I was a beginner that ended up teaching me the most about landscape photography. I committed many of these mistakes over and over for the first few years and I hope some of these mistakes will resonate with you so you'll be able to correct them much quicker than I did. I believe if I could have solved for many of these mistakes much sooner than my rate of improvement would have been drastically increased when I was a beginner. I hope you enjoy this week's video and are able to get some helpful information out of it that you can apply to your landscape photography moving forward.

Thanks for watching! - Mark D.

VIDEO CHAPTERS:
🔘Introduction: 0:00
🔘Mistake #8 Always Landscape: 1:32
🔘Mistake #7 Disjointed Compositions: 3:15
🔘Mistake #6 Shooting From The Eye: 5:26
🔘Mistake #5 Low Shutter Count: 7:37
🔘Mistake #4 Exclusionary Art: 8:39
🔘Mistake #3 Bad Timing: 11:03
🔘Mistake #2 What am I looking at? 12:16
🔘Mistake #1 Gear Matters: 14:45
🔘Closing: 16:52

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**LETS CONNECT**

[MarkDenneyPhoto]

What’s the one photography mistake that has taught you the most?

[AdventureDriver]

Leaving home without memory card and/or battery in the camera.

[larryfitzpatrick]

Getting low: Easy to say when you are young. I can still get down low, getting back up is the issue.

[ashleysadauskis]

As a beginning photographer, it was great to hear about not getting caught up in the gear! This is something that I have caught myself getting sucked into instead of spending the time to take more photos. Thanks for the great advice!

[JordanCait]

Mark, Bravo! Many photographers only want to show their best work. I applaud you for "opening your kimono" and sharing your mistakes so that we can learn from them. Thank you.

[metalmick]

I had to chuckle at the spending big on equipment segment, and also the advice that basically said, take more shots (Low Shutter Count). It seems that there are a multitude of pursuits where people attempt to buy success. I coach archery and shake my head at some club members who buy bows sometimes as often as twice a year; and I tell those I coach that the quickest and cheapest path to improved success is meaningful practice to develop better technique (I guess the equivalent of increasing shutter count).

[rickhughesprints]

A friend of mine was the head of PBS for Wyoming. In five minutes, he taught me most of the points you made in your video. I didn't follow what he taught me at times, but he saved me a lot of bad shots. It was good to hear that advice again from you, and happy others heard it as well.

[digitaliphotography]

Another great video, Mark. I've been a photographer for almost 40 years, since 1982 and I STILL make some of these mistakes. I'm particularly guilty of "low shutter count" which I think is probably a hangover from film days - I used to shoot almost exclusively on slide film, expensive to process, and expensive to print.

[michaeltorluemke]

Shutter count is one of the hardest things to overcome when you first learned to take photos with actual film. I’m trying not to worry about the count anymore and try to shoot several shots of the same item, maybe just changing things a little and choosing the ones you like best. It’s a lot easier when you don’t have to pay cash for every mistake.

[ksnmurthy]

I appreciate Mark for your honest confession about the mistakes you made in helping us to aware and improve and avoid those same mistake. That’s a great spirit of a tutor. We respect your opinions in this video. Great 👍 commitment to help us. 💐. You are choosing the subjects of unanswered questions and the ignored community of beginner photographers where we don’t find the solutions. Great work.

[VickyElmo]

Definitely, "what am i looking at?" Is the mistake that I've made for the longest time... Big part of the learning process were your videos, so thank you very much for that!!

[dougdunlop]

Hi Mark, I have been a photographer since back in the 70's after I got out of the military I was very depressed so when my cousin gave me a Yashica TLR, I spent a lot of time walking in the woods, taking pictures. I don't make much money but it's cheaper than a psychiatrist. Happy New Year!

[delpher]

I started with landscape photography just several months ago. It is so exciting and encouraging to see exactly same "bad' beginner photos taken at the early days by a good photographer who you admire and learn from. Many thanks for sharing this.

[matthewacri]

I find not being patient is a big mistake of mine. I sometimes rush to get my shot and I miss steps like edge patrol.

[nellielodders]

Thank you for sharing your learning experience. Showing your “first” pictures and explaining with those along side really helps and also encourages to grow.

[robertking]

Another great video Mark. Thanks for being transparent and sharing with us your past mistakes to help us all become better photographers.

[keithshenkin]

Really enjoy the soft, gentle delivery of helpful information. Thanks.

[jimwlouavl]

You’re a good guy to show the images you’re not proud of. They’re better than you may realize. It’s clear to me that you had good instincts all along. I’m glad you now have the chance to focus on your art.

[kennyyarbrough]

Its very refreshing to see someone openly showing their failures or short comings. Thats very encouraging to a duffer like me. I have thousands of photos that are near misses that i could never quite figure out what the problem was. Many look just like your examples and now i have some really good ideas how to correct it. thanks

[mariobaert]

I think for me the most common mistake is to not take enough time to analyse the image I shot and if needed (most times) to take an adjusted position or setting and try a few more. Good tips in this video!