Did you know that you can predict the color of a sunset by the clouds in the air? And did you realize this is part of achieving enchanting Dramatic Landscapes?
“If you’re not willing to drive, walk, hike, climb, get wet, lay in the dirt, scuff your shoes, miss a meal, get up early or strain your back for the shot, then you’re not going to get the dramatic pictures you were hoping for.”
This is how Nick Carver starts his training course. He could’ve put it in a more accommodating tone, but that wouldn’t have been as fun. Because what he says is true.
Landscape photography requires movement. Dramatic Landscapes require you to find them. It can’t be substituted, cheated, amended, added in post, or faked. A truly great composition is the foundation that beckons everyone to stare at your images – and you want that right?
Nick Carver’s Composition for Dramatic Landscapes is a straightforward, blunt, and intelligent ebook + video guide about learning how to photograph an enchanting, visually communicative landscape photograph.
With it, you’ll learn how to stop people in their tracks and marvel at what you shoot. You’ll learn how to read the clouds – literally – for better landscapes, orientate with your light, and understand how to balance color, shadow, space, and foreground/background transitions.
You’ll finally have a crash course to make amazing, eye-popping, landscape imagery.
4 ebooks. 4 video lectures. Over 100 pages, 40+ minutes.
Learn the secrets to uniquely expressive landscape imagery We all have our little-known secrets. Photographers, especially, like keeping theirs.
Yet from the very first lesson, Nick Carver comes clean with one of his best secrets to making emotionally evocative (and financial lucrative) landscape photographs. It’s simple but something that’s easily overlooked when busy shooting.
It’s about keeping your eyes peeled for diagonal lines. Whether already formed by nature, or angled by your camera, diagonal lines strike your viewer and engage their interest. In that same section, Carver goes on to discuss ways of finding diagonals and learning how to create them.
Lessons like these are what this course is about. It’s filled with actionable, ready-to-go, information.
It’s entertaining and visually punctuated by images that show exactly what Carver is talking about, and to further reinforce the point, each lesson’s accompanied by a video that goes into more depth about the techniques discussed in the ebooks.
My favorite lesson? In the fourth ebook, Carver talks about something most other landscape photographers choose to leave out, or seem uneasy talking about, even though it’s just as important as composition: Predicting light through the clouds and weather above you.
Yes, it’s more than possible. How do you do it? Well, it’s about knowing what type of cloud yields what type of light. Once knowing that, you’ll able to forecast which colors you’ll get and what landscapes you’ll be able to shoot.
It’s a great lesson, but it’s one of many. After reading the 4 ebooks and watching the 4 videos, you’ll learn exactly what it takes to shoot visually compelling, successfully communicative landscape photography.
So what’s all included in this video?
- 4 ebooks that are designed to get you shooting better landscapes in 4 weeks
- 4 video lectures that complement and further explain the ebooks
- Lessons on scale, location, color, weather, direction of light, and how to shoot better foregrounds
- Assignments that you can send to Nick for professional critiques
- Straightforward, precise, intelligent instruction about achieving Dramatic Landscapes
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