PRO TECHNIQUE SHOOT A FOUR-SEASON PROJECT

GET SET UP

1 Once you’ve found a location for a landscape that you’d like to shoot, set up your camera on a tripod so you can compose. It can be handy to make a note of how tall the tripod is, and find a specific marker like a fence post that you can make a note of to return to, for identical framing on each visit.

SETTINGS

2 It’s important to use the same aperture value for each shot so that the depth of field looks identical between them. We used Aperture Priority and set the aperture to f/5.6 and ISO to 400. Using a tripod, we then let the camera work out the correct shutter speed for each of the four separate images.

TAKE THE SHOT

3 As we used a tripod, we switched off Image Stabilisation and also enabled the selftimer to avoid knocking the camera by accident when we pressed the shutter. We focused on the tree in all four shots so it was pin-sharp and the clear focal point, and we ensured the composition was identical for each image.