Follow the links to these sites and read them!!!!

Composition Hints: digital-photography-school.com/4-rules-of-composition-for-landscape-photography

General Guidelines: great-landscape-photography-tips

Creating panoramas: Gimp-panoramas

Create a Panorama using GIMP:  Panoramas

Blend Edges with a Layer Mask:  Layer Marks for Panoramas

"Look for texture, forms, and patterns: Great black-and-white  photographs are stunning because black-and-white forces the photographer to look for these things"

Develop-Your-Photography-Skills

Set your camera's mode: "Landscape mode on your camera, which is designed to capture scenic vistas, city skylines, and other large scale subjects, produces a large depth of field. As a result , objects both close to the camera and at a distance seem sharply focussed"

Take the high ground: A high vantage point that give you a commanding view of a scene is ideal.

Dawn & Dusk are best: It is difficult to photograph a landscape effectively in the middle of the day as the light is harsh. The subdued light of early morning or evening helps bring out shadows, and so enhances the 3D and texture of a landscape.

Go Exploring: The best landscapes are seldom the edge of the road: Take your boots and be ready to walk.

Foreground, middleground, background: You could place something of interest in the foreground, but keep a long depth of field, keeping both the scene and the foreground in focus.

Use a tripod; you will get fewer but better pictures.

Viewpoints: Experiment with viewpoints, Go for non-standard viewpoints, say from ground-level rather than eye-level. Imagine the world as seen from an animal's viewpoint rather than a human's!

Panorama: If you are shooting for a panorama: Use a tripod, or support your camera. Keep the horizon level. Overlap your shots by at least 1/3. Put the shots together afterwards in software such as the GIMP. This will make a better job than in camera editing.

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