Take your sharpest ever landscapes
Dan Mold shares six tips you can follow on your next landscape shoot to ramp up the clarity, sharpness and wow-factor in your photos
Sharpness and clarity are two features at the front of our minds when it comes to buying a new lens. Perhaps this is in part due to Canon releasing increasingly high resolution cameras. Pair that with the ability to zoom right in on a computer monitor or the screens of our smart devices and any in-camera softness becomes glaringly obvious.
But even with the sharpest of optics and best camera bodies, it’s still possible to get a blurry shot, so we’re going to show you some basic tips you can follow to get your sharpest ever landscapes.
The beauty of landscape photography is that you can take a bit more time to compose your pictures, unlike other genres such as sports or wildlife, where you rarely have the luxury of time to set up and get the shot. So with landscapes it’s worth using a tripod to eliminate the camerashake caused by the vibrations in your hands. But note that although this will remove camerashake, it will still be possible to pick up subject blur.
This is where your shutter speed is slow enough to pick up the movement of moving objects in your scene, such as people walking by, the clouds in the sky, or waves crashing in a seascape. If you want motion to be removed from these areas too you’ll want to use a fast shutter speed of around 1/500 sec.
Our tips below will help you get the best sharpness with your kit. However, if you want even more clarity, then you’ll need to look at better optics or a superhigh resolution Canon body like the 50.6Mp 5DS R. Of course, also shoot in the Raw file format to capture as much exposure information as possible. Here’s everything you need to know…