Ian Plant Dreamscapes

“Chasing the Light”: For years, landscape photographers have lived by this motto, chasing those rare magical moments when Nature displays her finest. Making great landscape photos, however, takes more than just chasing the light: it takes proficiency in composition, and learning to master the moment.

I’ve just released my first eBook called “Chasing the Light: Essential Tips for Taking Great Landscape Photos.” This eBook contains essential tips that can make your landscape photos stand out from the rest. Inside you will learn the fundamentals of scene selection, working with light and color, and advanced composition techniques. The philosophical and creative concepts contained herein, once mastered, can help you unlock your fullest potential as a landscape photographer.

This eBook is not about gear or Photoshop—it is about the artistic fundamentals required to make great landscape photos. If you are interested in taking your craft and personal vision to the next level, then Chasing the Light is for you!

Chasing the Light is a 62 page downloadable PDF eBook filled with informative text, stunning full-color images, and plenty of insights and inspiration.

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Who doesn’t love rainbows? Rainbows are a favorite of nature photographers, and for good reason. Not only are they beautifully vibrant, representing all colors in the spectrum that can be seen by human eyes, but their graceful arcing shapes add compositional interest to photographs. But finding rainbows is a tough business, and doing them justice even tougher. So, what is the best way to photograph a rainbow?

My newest free tutorial, How to Photograph Rainbows, contains essential tips to optimize your chances of getting great rainbow photos. It not only tells you how to find rainbows, but also how to make the most of them when you do. Feel free to leave comments about the article here.

I’ve just posted a new article on my website about Using Live View for Nature Photography. Live View has become a vital part of my image capture process, and I use it for almost every photograph I make to optimize focus, composition, depth-of-field, and even exposure. Live View is a serious professional tool that can help you significantly improve your photography images. My simple tutorial shows you how you can unleash the power of Live View on your nature photographs.