Landscape Photography & Nature Photography for Beginners

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, you'll learn about the key equipment we recommend (camera, lenses, filters, tripods, and gear for your adventures).

It's important to plan your trip before heading out so you are prepared to have the most success. In this lesson of the landscape photography course, Will shares some tips for getting prepared.

Download this checklist to help you remember what to bring on your next landscape photography adventure.

If you need a refresher on camera settings such as ISO, shutter speed, and aperture, this is the lesson for you. We want to get everyone up to speed for the rest of the lessons.

If you already know your camera settings, this is just an OPTIONAL lecture. Feel free to skip ahead.

In this lesson, Will and Sam go out during sunrise to shoot some photos. You'll learn why sunrise is one of the best times to shoot your own landscape photos.

What are we using on our landscape photography adventure? In this lesson of the landscape photography course, we all go over what each of us have in our bags.

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, Phil and Sam go over a basic situation while out climbing rocks in Joshua Tree.

Learn how to shoot panoramic photos with any camera in this lesson of the landscape photography course. Will shows you how to do it with a smartphone, mirrorless, and DSLR camera.

Using a polarizer filter can make your landscape photos look even better. Will shows you how it works in this lesson of the landscape photography course.

When out shooting landscape photos, you should shoot with both wide and telephoto lenses. Will shows you the difference in this lesson.

It's the end of the day, and we show you how to shoot some amazing sunset photos.

Welcome to the photo editing section!

In this lesson, go over the basics of Lightroom to get up to speed with the rest of this course.

In this photo editing lesson, we go over the basics of editing landscape photos - going over our step-by-step process.

Learn how to quickly level your horizons with one tool in Lightroom.

In this landscape photography lesson, you'll learn how to remove objects from the sky - like Chemtrails.

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, we show you how adding a gradient to the sky can make it look magical.

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, Phil takes his favorite photo from the adventure and walks through an entire edit.

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, Sam takes his favorite photo from the adventure and walks through an entire edit.

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, Will takes his favorite photo from the adventure and walks through an entire edit.

Here's a fun lesson where the three instructors edit the same photo, comparing and contrasting the differences in their final results!

In this tutorial, Sam edits a sunrise photo, going through his entire Lightroom process.

In this Lightroom tutorial, you'll learn how to create an HDR photo where you blend together two or more photos.

In this landscape photography lesson, you'll learn how to stitch together photos to make a panorama in Lightroom.

In this landscape photography lesson, you'll learn how to stitch together photos to make a panorama in Photoshop.

In this lesson of the landscape photography course, we show you how to export photos - whether you want to post it online or print out.

Here's a quick guide to export settings, no matter what program you use.

Thank you so much for taking this landscape photography course. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make it even better. If you haven't done so already, please leave a review of the course. 

Thanks, and we can't wait to see you in a future course!

In this video, Phil talks about what a lens hood is and when you would use it.

In this video, Phil gives some tips for using and purchasing a tripod, monopod, or gorillapod.

What is a daytime long exposure? How does it work? In this video, Phil demonstrates how to shoot long exposures during the day.