Struggling to Find Landscape Photography Locations? Try This!

A lot of us struggle to find great landscape photography locations, and it can be frustrating trying to find opportunities, particularly during this time, when travel is very limited. If that is something you struggle with, this great video will show you how you can find better locations for shoots.

Coming to you from Gary Gough, this helpful video will show you how to find more landscape photography locations. This is something I have certainly struggled with quite a bit living in Ohio, but over time, it has really amazed me just how many opportunities there are, even here. Certainly, I do not have access to things like soaring mountain ranges or the like, but after accepting this and learning to work with what I have, I have found a ton of great spots. Often, these are things that one would never see on a map, such as a five-foot-tall waterfall in a small creek, but with dedication to finding these spots, I have built a great network of spots. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Gough. 

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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That's not too helpful for right now. Most landscape photographers likely are themsleves the local expert for their area (or should be), and can't travel right now to other places. And, you're not really supposed to be meeting up with strangers, either. However, what I've been doing lately (even before the lock downs), is watching backpacking vlogs on YouTube. There are TONS of people who head on into the back country and make videos of it all. It's a great resource, and some even provide GPS coordinates for where they camp, where a waterfall is, etc. So, at least I won't have the excuse of not having any ideas on where to go when National Parks in the US open up again (which they're slowly starting to now).