Tutorials on creating depth in landscape photos

easier to search and read the rules than answering to this question

 

All this photos were taken with wide angle lenses (about from 10 to 20mm). So you need to search "Landscape with wide angle lens". Thomething like that.

 

I say Nick Page is the right one for this but your question seems to be from an newbie, so you will find it difficult.

 

This is a good tutorial for landscapes: https://p-v.club/threads/mastering-the-art-of-landscape-photography-nigel-danson.15362/
Mads Peter Iversen is also great, Nigel and Mads Peter Iversen have ton of great short clips on youtube on composition, depth, lighting, editing. I definitely recommend both of them.

 

Not all wide angle pictures have depth. If I ubderstand it clearly, one needs to take multiple pictures and do focus stacking. I particularly want to understand how to add depth using the foreground element.

 

I dont remember Nick Page'stutoorial covering the foreground element accounting for depth. I will check again. Thanks!
I have taken many pictures in the past that have been featured in global photography channels and magazines. But my pictures never had the foreground element aspect adding to depth. I wish to improvise on that

 

Check these clips to get an insight in to power foregrounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhhJahGG7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcKT6SQ984g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TW4uC28ZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8U5pYuDBYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hk7xtBhPIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjb4YgIIhYk

 

Thank you!
Is there any start to finish tutorial that covers this?

 

Great! Thank you! I will go through them.

 

I doubt there is one that specialises in it, not that I know of anyway, but I am no landscape escape so take that with a grain of salt. I would definitely recommend you to take the Nigel Danson course in full. It might be a good idea to polish up on your composition and lighting skills regarding landscapes. Both Nigel and Danson have great youtube videos on them, Mads Peter Everson actually has a great ebook on lanscape composition for 20 USD, it might be up your alley.

 

If conditions are changing and you can't afford focus stacking you could instead close your iris (rising the f stop increase the depth of field and therefore focus)
Pay attention also to not be too much close to your close range subject as distance increase DOF aswell.

Gerald Undone has a nice video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzHn2cKwLI

 

Thanks! I wish this group had Mads's book

 

Awesome! Will watch it.

 

William Patino has courses which feature wide angle landscape & focus stacking. There are several on here, so just search for his name.

 

You need to watch Ryan Dyar's collection of perspective blending and light contouring tutorials.

 

In a nutshell the perception of depth within a 2d image is to have the foreground sharp/contrasty leading through to not so sharp/contrasty background as is when viewing something with the naked eye something which is 500ft away will not be as sharp as something 5 ft away.

So to put this in perspective this is usually achieved by adding some sort of haze or minor blur I.e Orton effect which is masked out in the foreground but left 100% in the background giving you that perception of depth.

 

Too add - Nick Page is great explaining this even though some will say his work is over cooked - but even so his knowledge on this is great.