5 Great Tips for Better Sunrise Landscape Photos

Sunrise can be a magical time for landscape images, and if you are one of those brave people who can roll out of bed in time to make it out to shoot it (seriously, how do you do that?), you can often come home with some really beautiful photos. This excellent video tutorial will give you five tips for taking better sunrise shots.

Coming to you from fototripper, this great video details five tips for taking better sunrise photos. I have never been one to roll out of bed at 4 am for this sort of thing, but I recently found a shot where I desperately want to get the sun behind a building with a river in the foreground, and unfortunately, that means I am going to have to be facing east to make this happen. Alas. Anyway, my unnecessary complaining aside, sunrise can be a really rewarding time to shoot, and it is not just a mirror version of sunset, though just like its counterpart, one of its biggest challenges is the quickly changing light. Check out the video above for some greats tips for your next sunrise.  

And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi." 

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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