When driving through the mountains somewhere, and you notice a car parked half off the road and some guy leaning to the left to avoid a branch with his Rebel 2000 camera in the act of focusing, you have found me. I do this because, for me, a trip is not fulfilling unless I've preserved that beauty for posterity. I'd like to share some of the techniques that make scenic photography such a wonderful art form – simple, but elegant.First off, equipment. Much as the cheapo disposable camera calls, get real.

These cameras have fisheye lenses which I call "spam" lenses. They have everything in CRAM, with equal blurriness and boringness. Good photos are sharp, unless you use blur for artistic effect. Sharp comes from an adjustable lens. Can be a fixed lens or a zoom, but it must focus, Nikon Digital Camera, specially for each picture. Targets set are limiting for scenic pictures, where to frame the shot you may need to move over long distances.

Imagine using a fixed lens on the Washington Monument, when you're half a block away! Zoom get my vote, even though they often do not have the widest aperture, which limits their capabilities in low light. In practice, the digital SLR cameras is the best ever. They are lightweight and can be used with lenses of high quality. Film SLR cameras tend to be less expensive, but are the limits of the film, which means you have to do to develop and so on. SLRs are very expensive, so for the budget conscious or go with a film SLR or a high quality basic digital camera.

With digital, resolution is also critical in order to review the specifics before buy.OK, we have the camera, emotions are strong, and this is great, but not too big! Sometimes I find a place that is so wonderful, I start shooting like a madman, only to be disappointed by the images. What happened? Emotions. When there is a place, there are sounds, aromas and breezes as well as the graphics of the spot. Needless to say, you can not photograph all of these elements, only the visual. When overwhelmed by the spectacle of a scenic hotspot, we are often overwhelmed by all these elements.

So what to do? Look through the camera. The viewfinder are not (usually). Try to see what you're looking at the finished picture. Most people mechanically take pictures, hoping that somehow the shot will come out great. If you wonder how the pictures came out when you are on the road to the drug store to get them, you're doing something wrong. At the moment you click the pic, you should know exactly what you get. (Of course with digital, which is not a joke!). Now, I was a tad dishonest in saying that you can not capture all the elements of a scene.

One can speak to them. For starters, motion. Yes, even in a still image, there is no movement. Something has happened before, during and after your picture. In a scene seen in the mountains, you can find something that hints at motion, whether it be a branch of a tree that was swaying in the wind, or a river flowing through the valley below. These add a sense of movement. Then there is the "rule of thirds." When you place the main subject of the picture smack-dab in the middle, is static and boring.

Given that one third of the road on both sides, and the movement involves. Put the horizon in a landscape photography third of the way up or down is not in any middle.Remember, when a person looks at a picture, their eyes move. You want to frame your photo to help that movement. If you can find some lines in the scene, like a skyline, cloud formation, path through the forest, and so on, using it is interesting, and the rule of thirds to draw the eyes of your audience into picture.Avoid " summit syndrome.

" You reach the summit of Mount Washington and shoot the majestic view. Great. The pictures are out … boring! How? No perspective. Big vistas will be flat unless you have an object in the foreground, like a rock or a tree, to give their perspectives. Then the eye really grasps how big this scene is. People enjoying the view is a real winner, because the viewer can identify with their emotions, giving the image real impact.Cheese! Yes, you have to take the family photos. E 'mandatory.

But when you do, make sure that show the location of the photo. Otherwise, you could also do it in the driveway. Frame the scene in context, with landmarks as part of the picture. Finding a way to tell how history in pictures, like