We live in an age of hyper-fast content creative and consumption, and it can be easy to feel pressured to bring home loads of images to continue feeding the machine. There is something to be said for slowing down so you can think more and shoot less, however. This great video explores that idea and why it might improve both your photos and your enjoyment of the experience.
Coming to you from Steve O'Nions, this excellent video shows you the benefits of slowing down and shooting a bit less in landscape photography. This is something film photographers talk about a lot, though it is a philosophy you can certainly still embody if you are shooting digital. Besides allowing you to create more thoughtful and deeper images, it just makes for a more enjoyable experience, as you reconnect with why you picked up a camera in the first place and enjoy simply being out and about among beautiful scenery without the pressures of the ever-beckoning online hype machine. Check out the video above for the full rundown from O'Nions.
And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi."
It's funny, I always think of landscape photography as potentially the slowest field of photography. Most landscape photographers who set out to capture the definitive image from a particular location spend hours in the same spot with their camera on a tripod. They always wait through all the weather conditions hoping the perfect moment occurs. His example of Moonrise Hernandez is kind of the opposite of that. It wasn't slow at all, it happened as fast as a single frame.