Camera Settings for Landscape Photography

On this page I would like to display some fantastic photos and the camera settings used to capture the shot. I find learning from others work easier and when I have my confidence the manual settings will become second nature.  Please note these photos are copyright of their original owners.

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Aperture Value f/22 ISO 100 Shutter Speed Value 15 Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Flash No Flash Focal Length 10 mm Metering Mode Multi-Segment
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Aperture Value f/11 ISO 200 Shutter Speed Value 5 Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Flash No Flash Focal Length 28 mm Metering Mode Center Weighted Average

Landscape photography tips:

Sunrise:

Firstly I set my ISO to 50 which turns the sensor to its least sensitive setting. I nearly always work in aperture priority (Av) mode for landscape photography and chose an aperture of F/18 to allow only a small amount of light through the lens. This also helped to increase the depth of field for the shot.

Maximize your Depth of Field

While there may be times that you want to get a little more creative and experiment with narrow depth of fields in your Landscape Photography - the normal approach is to ensure that as much of your scene is in focus as possible. The simplest way to do this is to choose a small Aperture setting (a large number) as the smaller your aperture the greater the depth of field in your shots.

Aperture:

Aperture is measured in ‘f-stops’.
Large Aperture Number (F2.2) = Blury background (shallow depth of field)
Small aperture number (F22) = Whole scene in focus (large depth of field)
One thing that causes a lot of new photographers confusion is that large apertures (where lots of light gets through) are given f/stop smaller numbers and smaller apertures (where less light gets through) have larger f-stop numbers. So f/2.8 is in fact a much larger aperture than f/22. It seems the wrong way around when you first hear it but you’ll get the hang of it.

Learning about Exposure

1. ISO - the measure of a digital camera sensor’s sensitivity to light
2. Aperture - the size of the opening in the lens when a picture is taken
3. Shutter Speed - the amount of time that the shutter is open

Exposure is Is at the intersection of these three elements that an image’s exposure is worked out.