The 7 Photography Mistakes I See All Photographers do! 

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An extremely informative tutorial video. It’s taken years to realise the mistakes you talked about. Anyone watching this, who is fairly new to landscape photography, will be so grateful. I do like your ‘edge patrol’ tip which makes such a huge improvement to an image. Thank you 🙏🏼

You are such an intelligent and patient photographer, thank you for making these videos!

I’m just getting into landscape photography and I find it very difficult. I find your videos to be extremely helpful. Not only do you offer a variety of topics, you do so in a manner that is easy to understand and follow. Thank you.

It's been two years since I shot landscape and your video was all that was needed to figure the imagination again Mads. Thank you!

This is helpful thanks. Just two things. Some of the post production images looked over engineered to me. This raises questions about what we want to achieve in landscape photography- realism or phantasy? Also does it matter if there are tire tracks in the sand? This is added texture and conveys that this is a lived environment.

I always enjoy your informative videos (and courses!) and that you get right to the point. Thank you!

Thanks, great video! You manage to capture me at the issues I was just reflecting, without being able to define them as explicitly as you did in your video. Congratulations

Your "Border Patrol" and "Try centering the subject" tips have been two of the most important (among many) tips that I have picked up from your channel Mads. Really love the tip about exploring your local area as well.

Thank you for this video. Beautiful photos. Beautiful. I am a professional wedding photographer, well retired wedding photographer. I no longer want to photograph weddings. I have been doing it as my sole business for 15 years. And now I want to switch to landscape photography as a hobby. It is quite different. Finally a video with new and extremely helpful information. Thank you. Again beautiful work.

One thing that impresses me instantly about this presentation. It takes him 20 seconds to say - let's jump right in and he starts presenting content and facts. I am so tired of the old school - I tell you what I will tell you - I tell you what I want to tell you - and I tell you what I told you. Thank you - so refreshing - and that style of delivering content rather than verbiage is used like a frame to present a picture which takes up the majority of the time - leaving little time for actual information.

loved it. Thank you so much for showing us your own experience, with your evolution as a photographer. Awesome

Your point about getting out locally was well made Mads as you certainly have shown the beauty of Denmark through your lens. Look forward to seeing what you create from your trip to Svalbard with Nigel and James

Your use of comparisons, good pic vs not so good really helps deliver the points you’re making. Well done

Thank you! Thank you! The first clue transformed my landscape photography from good to great!!Forever will be grateful!!!!!

What a beautiful person to share all these valuable information...grateful thanks for helping!

You are my favorite landscape photographer, without question! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Well done Mads! A few things really impressed me about your tutorial here. First and I'm sure to many it may seem a small thing, however composing is NOT just about center, foreground, mid-ground and background, leading lines, rule of thirds, juxtaposition, contra-weighting primary and secondary objects and I could go on and on, but as you so clearly began with Edge Patrol! Bravo! When I began 50 years ago, after a morning when my father had been in his darkroom until mid-day and having left me spending those hours with Weston's "Day Books" and Minor White's (a family friend) Mirrors, Messages & Manifestations, he came in for lunch and I boldly said, you know "Uncle" Edward had two sons, Cole and Brett who were also fine photographers, and you're a photographer and I'm your son SO I'm going to be a photographer too! Well, not long after that my father gave me one of his 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 Graflex cameras which he put on a tripod saying this camera STAYS on this tripod! Of course, I said I want to use your Nikon and he said, "Not until you learn how to use the equipment!" He gave me one of his older Weston II light meters and basic instructions. The first and strongest was that he didn't want to see any junk in the frame, no candy wrappers, trash cans, coke bottles, garden water hoses, anything that was not intended to be there! I could have any or all of those things within the frame, but they HAD to be INTENTIONAL and meaningful to the overall composition. Then he explained that the tripod forces you to take your time and that means that you carefully consider what you're photographing, why, what you intend to show, and that you continue to evaluate all of those things all the way to every edge of the ground glass and the corners and that you have to tilt, pan, or move the tripod and camera one inch or several feet in some manner until you get your edges clean and corners set AND THEN you start taking light readings and deciding on f-stop and shutter speed and up to the very moment that you press the shutter release you continue to evaluate the entire frame! To me, that is where it all begins and ends, with the edges and corners! One thing I say to myself, and I'd say to any beginner, is that the world out there is full of magical things to see, between close-up and wide expansive vistas BUT NOT ALL of it IS a photograph. The temptation is to become "Giddy" and "Excited" and to go about with the motivation of "Oh look at that, that's NICE I'll photograph that! AND THAT, AND THAT TOO!" With today's technology, the ease and facility to do that is limitless! That is a danger. When I shot film, I was always very conscious of things like I only have 10 sheets of film with me, OR 10 more shots on this roll and then there was processing, hours spent in the darkroom developing, washing and drying, then printing and every sheet of paper cost and you took time to choose a developer formula for what you wanted to achieve, so many things that forced ECONONY. Today, I waste more pixels on things I shouldn't have shot, only because each individual shot is for all practical purposes FREE with very little cost in time and effort. So, the DANGER is that all of us, beginner and seasoned photographer alike fall victim to some amount of point and shoot and the temptation to say "Oh that's nice, CLICK!" So, for me to say again, the second most important thing is being aware that there's a lot of wonderful things to see out there but NOT ALL of them are PHOTOGRAPHS! Thirdly, what you say about your own neighborhood is such a good point! In the early 1950's my father was living in Mexico City and one day he said to himself, I've been going all over Mexico photographing but today I'm walking out onto the street and I'm only photographing within the city block where I am now! It's a fine exercise in "seeing" as in the environment where we spend the most time we take everything we see for granted and we cease to "Really" SEE it! Limiting yourself to only photograph in a very small area that's familiar to you, helps to refocus your eye and when I've been out photographing landscapes, and then find myself in a city or home, I often do that exercise of limiting my field and it helps me adjust my seeing from the wide-open spaces to the more intimate ones of my city or home surroundings.

Fantastic perspectives and reflections! I always learn good things from your videos!! Thank you. 😊

Another great vid, Mad! This one helped inspire me to get off my tail and get out and shoot yesterday even though I wasn't planning to and I got an image I'm very pleased with.

You are an excellent teacher and of course photographer! Thank you for these videos!

Very interesting and informative Mads. Fantastic photos a joy to watch, many thanks.

I have been enjoying your videos and have learned so much. Preparing to go to Iceland in November and with my first mirrorless camera. I'm getting to know my camera and love all the information you provide. Your photos are mesmerizing.

Excellent tutorial Mads. You’ve made some very helpful suggestions that I’ll definitely keep in mind and put to use. 👍

Good one, Mads, thank you! Love your work and points.

Great video, Mads! Love your work!

You are an Outstanding instructor and photographer! Thank you for your videos which are top-shelf & inspire me.

Thank you, Mads. Small things which make big differences. I will keep your recommendations in mind.

One of the best videos I've seen on the subject - thank you

Very good Mads. Some learning in there as always along with some great shots.

Loved it Mads! Always so much to learn from all your videos :)

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and your artistic point of view of landscape

Very informative and thoughtful advice. Thank you for sharing your expertise.

Awesome video, Mads. One of your best!

Very useful, thanks a lot. Few videos about photography have so specific recommendations that are so easy to implement!

Wonderful advice as always. Many thanks ❤

Excellent tips! I will look into your lessons. Every tip worked for me for sure!

This was highly educational, thank you so much for sharing those tips!! 🧡

Great advice, well presented. Thank you.

That was really interesting about the light roll-off. You used a mask for the burnt highlights to introduce negative clarity, instead of lowering the highlights all the way, like I tend to do.

extremely useful recommendations, Mads, appreciate!

Thanks for sharing Mads, good tips !

Learnt a lot, thank you. Once again very enjoyable.

Dank je wel mads👍🏻 ik heb eigenlijk nooit zo naar de randen gekeken, ik ga er toch eens wat mee doen, dank voor je tip

As a beginner, this video was excellent! While you provided a lot of detailed information, you delivered it in such a way that it was not overwhelming. Thank you!

Awesome video and tips! Thank you so much!

The concepts your explained are fascinating. Your details and processes are very helpful to me. Thanks from Australia

Man, your photos are truly amazing, great work!

Excellent amazing awesome incredible phenomenal teaching and demonstration

Great content. Thanks for sharing!

Mads I like your storm cloud picture with the rose in the grassfield a lot, it has that special something. Nice tips as well!

great video! Thanks. 👏👏👏

Very helpful as I begin to explore photography!

So many lovely pictures 😊 Thank you!

What a fantastic tutorial.. love it,thank you

Negarive clarity! Brilliant tip, thanks! Great video.

Thank you so much for sharing this expensive knowledge!

Thanks Mads as usual a wonderful informative session !

Many thanks Mads Peter Iversen for this short but very informative video. I do BOUDOIR photographjy but still find LANDSCAPE very interesting. GOD bless you.

Great video, good insights! Cheers!

That was awesome. Loved it, and hit subscribe.

I really like your storm clouds with the two trees photo....the red flower in the foreground is like a pair of lips throwing a kiss. Very clever! Thanks for all you do for us followers. I've learned a lot from you. And am still learning.

Very good presentation that gets to the “point” quickly

Thanks for the tips !

I just love the way you teach!

This is one of my hot button issues and favorite critiques. I shoot quite a bit in the Nevada deserts and it rather difficult to create clean edges without some dramatic cleaning in edits.

These photos are on another level. Just amazing

Great vid, really learning a lot from you! Oh, and... 1:05 I actually like this photo, even with those "edge elements" :)

Thanks for your video. Great tips.

It's important to note as well, if you're going to use the clarity slider, positive OR negative, be very careful. That slider can ruin your photo very easily if its over-used.

Wow, beautiful shots!

Thanks. Excellent vid

Thanks for this. Very awesome ❤

Glad to hear you say you will use f/20 if you need. I run into so many people that are so hung up over diffraction when stopped down so much so that they will cheat themselves out of a photo or make a photo way more difficult than it needs to be.

You just made me feel like a complete newbie. Thanks for the helpful video!

Perfect 👏👏👏 very helpful and inspiring as allways🥰

I learned a lot from the video. Thank you!

I love two things about this video. 1. The photos are absolutely gorgeous. 2. You are a very harsh critic of your own work. Oh, and I should be in my native Iceland, but I’m not. Will be going on holiday soon, so will definitely take your advice to heart.

Very informative ❤

nice tip on the negative clarity on dealing with clipped clouds👍

Many thanks Mads a VERY informative video ,much appreciated .Greetings again from South Africa and best for 2024.

Great tutorial and many magnificent photos.

Cool, now I have 2 Danish guys worth follow :-) Tack för en bra undervisning

IT’S A SAD DAY WHEN. 4 months ago I discovered your videos and just finished watching all 377 videos. It’s interesting to see how you have grown from then to now. So so many great photos, videos and tips along the way. Thank you for your dedication, teaching of which you are astounding at. I look forward to the next 6 years of your work. JP Gallant, Canada

Also in regards to shutter speed, especially when doing long exposures, is to pay attention to other objects in the scene (ie. trees blowing in the wind perhaps) because this can lead to softness in those areas that may ruin a photo. Of course this is a bit of a challenge though because you have to balance shutter speed so that the image is sharp but the water is also blurred to an extent (although you could take one shot that is quicker to freeze everything but the water, and then do a long exposure and composite in post so you get the best of both worlds. I would almost say for long exposure water shots, do a couple of shots at different shutter speeds. If you're shooting digital, it's not costing you anything and then you have a few different compositions to work from or choose from. This is not to say not to plan your shots out, but take a few different ones so you have options. I've burned myself a few times by doing a super long exposure only to realize I really didn't like it as much because of the plastic look of the water, but I only took one or two shots like that and nothing with a slightly faster shutter speed. I figure if you do a few different compositions using different settings you can always delete the images you don't need later, but it's harder to try to go back again and re-create the same scene again.

Excellent work.

very useful bro thanks for sharing

Love it.... 'Edge Patrol'

Hej Mads det var en super god forklaring. tak

Thanks for this video

Interesting, as a photojournalist ( retired) I don´t see any mistakes, just different pictures. We PROs think those people we shoot for. It is the first thought. So, if some client group needs a picture that has three dimensional visuals and foreground to see the bushes for some reason, then it is a mistake to compose so that the bushes are gone. We pros never shoot for ourselves, we shoot for other people ( those who pay for our breakfast). We think first what they need and shoot that way.

wow . I learned a lot from you today 👍👍👍

Thank you for another interesting video

Thanks mate, just as succinct and informative as ever. Cheers from Kangaroo Island

Lots of good info in this video. What editing software are you using. Subscribed!!!

Good channel, I am just starting out and learning how to shoot in manual and downloaded lightroom.

But then again, even the "mistakes" make remarkable artistic photos. Some of those that you mentioned as "mistakes" are down right beautiful. At the end of the day "the beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ☺️😉

Thank you so much for the tips! Is there any way to get your printed Photo Book? Its so so pretty and inspiring

Beautiful work

Thank you!