Dramatic Dunes

When dealing with dessert areas such as sand dunes, we have a few points that we will want to remember. Before shooting make sure the site is free of footprints, keep your camera away from the sand and bring lots of water. Make sure you pack lightly, walking in sand is tougher than walking on normal ground. Timing is very important when shooting sandy images. You will want to shoot when the sun is low in the sky. Roughly 15 mins before sunset or after sunrise.

Radiant Reflections

The Reflections section helps us with one of photographers favorite subjects as he states it. Again you will be getting wet so make sure to keep dry and keep your camera dry as well. Look for landscape that will be under, front, or sidelight, at sunrise or sunset that will help capture the lighting. Then look for pools, ponds, marshes, and etc that will have an opportunity to reflect the landscape . A main point to remember when trying to capture landscape reflections on water is to have water that is untouched by wind. Again filters may be used to help get the darkness you want for the sky or for the water.

Cascades and Waterfalls

In this section we learn how to capture water either flowing or still. This section is very interesting because its a challenge to capture water in different ways. He gives a few tips to help capture this expressive image: use soft lighting, shutter speed priority, isolate the foam, polarizing filter, capture rock and foliage in the scene, cue on diagonals, keep it simple, look for S curves, capture the sky, go below the flow, and get in the flow. Seems like a lot to remember, but overall is common sense as to what we have already learned from the book so far. Another issue that arises in this section is some precautions that should be taken when shooting water scenes. Water sprays sometimes mainly when dealing with rivers and waterfalls, so some advice is to shoot farther away with a longer lens. Keep your camera covered with a plastic to protect it. Keep your lens free of drops or mist. Also for yourself make sure you wear the right gear such as waders, extra clothes, shorts, and lost of material to dry off with.

Bonfires of Aututmn

This section tells us of some excellent places to look for picture sources that will help capture an autumn mixture. Again he tells us to use polarizing filters to help eliminate reflections, use cloudy mid-mornings to gain less wind and ample light that will give you sharp detail. Shoot when the land is wet to give your picture a "soaked look" that has lots of color saturation. Also look for complementary colors.

Photogenic Opportunities

This again was a short section but gives some good incite to some things to look for to help capture those images that we are all looking for. Color, clouds, calm weather, angles, moody weather, foreground features, open horizons, reflecting water, and good environments. These features or whatever you would like to call them are items to look for when you are needing inspiration for shooting or for new ideas.

Expressing Perspective

This was a particularly short section but there isn't much to say for portraying a perspective. You can use different angling of the camera to capture different scenes so that you can get a whole image in a shot. It also deals with depth and taking scenery depth into mind when wanting to get a image that is very far away while also getting a image that is right in front of you as well in to a photo.

Art of the possible

This sections deals with adapting your shooting to the natural conditions. Sunrise's are more preferable to shoot landscape scenes. Early morning for wildlife, midday for recharging yourself and getting ready for evening shoots. Late afternoons you can use for scouting for landscapes or areas where wildlife might be. Sunset you can shoot landscapes again but from another perspective of darker colors and tones.