5 Common Landscape Photography Mistakes to AVOID in 2024

Avoiding common mistakes will help you to take better photos in 2024. When it comes to landscape photography, there are dozens of mistakes that photographers make, most of which can be easily corrected. In this video, I discuss five of the most common landscape photography mistakes and how to fix them to create better-looking photos.

0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Overadjusting White Balance
3:02 - Not Having Enough Tonality
4:11 - Fixated on Wide-Angle Scenes
5:44 - Over or Under Editing
7:45 - Chasing Clouds Instead of Light

[richmilligan]

Excellent advice! Thanks for the video!

[BarrySachais]

Tip #4, "Over or Under Editing", reminded me of something I read many years ago when digital photography was relatively new. Reading a book by the incredible teacher and photographer, Katrin Eismann, she wrote, and I'm paraphrasing, you have to know when to stop. Those seven words have stuck with me whenever I edit. That is not to say that some projects are not more complex and take more time to achieve the look that is desired. But at some point, you simply have to know when to stop.

Digital photo editing offers an infinite number of possibilities. Adding a slight move of a slider this way or that, adjusting the histogram, or whatever slight changes you make really makes the possibilities of photo editing infinite. To those who over-edit, I'll simply restate Eismann's advice, you have to know when to stop.

Thank you Austin for reminding me, and the others who watched this, to not over-edit.

[JaimeLacayoPTY]

In good spirit I would like to suggest changing that green light from your face to another color.

My second suggestion would be: When you are editing an image (example minute 2:00) if you are not going to be making eye contact with the viewer, remove yourself from it. Just show Lightroom.