How to shoot…
Capture scenic shots with sentiment! Carmen Norman encourages you to let your emotions run free and bring your images to life…
Landscape photography is more than just taking a picture, it is about emotion, it’s learning to see and experience the location, to capture the atmosphere. It should create an impression and grab the attention of the viewer to bring out their emotions.
The one thing that makes a great photo is its ability to convey emotion and feeling.
To make a photograph more than just an image, I need to feel inspired by what I am photographing so my photograph can be a reflection of my experience and how I felt. Any scene can look beautiful, but to communicate with viewers and create something compelling, it needs something more. I need to get to know a place and look at its heart and soul. I ask myself: What makes a place significant? What makes it special? Why is it inspiring?
It is always exciting to see a rainbow; this one appeared when I was up a fell on the other side of Derwentwater. A polarizer can enhance the appearance and colours of a rainbow – you can also eliminate a rainbow from a scene by rotating the filter. Next time you see a rainbow, put a polarizer on your lens and rotate it, watching for the effect.
I want to pass on my sense of awe and what made me stop and consider the location. One way I try to do this is through composition and adding depth, layers and flow to images. My images may contain a foreground, mid-ground, and background that each add to the drama and beauty of the scene or they might be quite minimal to express the silence and solitude.
To decide on my compositions and the message I want my photograph to convey, once I re
