Landscape Photography 101 Videos & Manual.

Landscape Photography 101 Videos & Manual.

Last updated: 7/2008

Attention nature lovers and aspiring landscape photographers

At Last A Step-By-Step Course Which Is Guaranteed To Have You Taking Outstanding Landscape Photographs Even If You Have A Really Basic Camera.

From Doug Beckers
Australia

Dear fellow photography enthusiast
If you want to take photos that really capture the beauty of the landscape, then read on.

Have you experienced the frustration of visiting a beautiful location, taking dozens, if not hundreds of shots so you can relive the beauty of the place every time you look at your photos? Except when you get them home and look at them, all you really have is a record that you were there.

You just haven't been able to catch that special "thing", the essence of the place that made it so special?

I know exactly how you feel because until last year I was exactly the same as you. I thought,

? Why can some people visit the same location as me and come back with a photograph that is simply awe inspiring?

? What do they know that I don't?

? Do they have fancy equipment and filters, or is their technique?

I made it my mission to hunt down a great photographer and learn from him. And that's exactly what I did. I found Erik Gunzel. Here's a couple of my favourite photos of Erik's. As you can see, his photos are simply inspiring:

Erik Gunzel is a leading Landscape Photographer who has perfected a simple but very powerful technique for teaching anyone passionate about photography to take memorable Landscape Photographs. He taught me and I'm proud to say I have had some wonderful success with my photography since then.

How a frustrated amateur photographer uncovered the secret to take outstanding landscape photographs and then went on to win a photography competition just one month later.

That frustrated amateur photographer was me. Let me tell you a story and why I am so grateful that I met Erik Gunzel and how you can easily get results like me.

I'm an ecologist and I work in some of the most beautiful areas of Australia. Every time I head out into the bush I take my camera with me. It is one of my greatest ambitions to take beautiful photographs of the natural areas I visit, areas that very few people get to see. I want to capture the beauty of the Australian landscape and inspire other people to get out and explore as well.

After a field trip, I would sort through the hundreds of photographs I had taken, and only a few of them would go even close to capturing the beauty of the area I had just visited. Talk about frustrating.

I had done a couple of courses in the past and had a basic understanding of how my camera worked and how to take a good photo, but something was always missing.

Does this sound familiar?

Why can photographers like Erik visit the same place as me and come home with something awe inspiring while I come home with something that is really just a record that I have been there?

How does he do it?

Then I met Erik Gunzel. I first heard about Erik when I saw an exhibition of his at the Regional Art Gallery. There on the wall was a series of photographs of Maitland Bay beach. One is the same photograph on the cover of his Landscape Photography DVD I'll tell you about in a minute. Here are a few of the photographs he had exhibited there.

I walk to Maitland Bay every week. It's only 20 minutes walk through the bush from my home. I've taken dozens of photos of Maitland Bay at different times of the day. It is truly one of the most beautiful places in the world, yet I could never capture that beauty.

There on the gallery wall were photographs of Maitland Bay that stopped me dead in my tracks. He had captured what I could see but had never been able to capture myself.

That was it. I made it my mission to track down Erik and learn his secrets. I wanted to be as good as him! It turned out we live in the same little town. It also turned out that I wasn't the first person to seek him out to learn from.

As well as being an incredibly talented photographer, Erik's also a really nice guy who is passionate about sharing his love of photography. Erik has taught photography for years and over that time has developed a very simple but powerful system to teach Landscape Photography.

He even went that one step further and created a home study course for people who couldn't make it to his "on location" classes. This is the course you have the opportunity to own today.

I bought this course and methodically worked through all of the lessons, did the exercises and lost count of how many times I viewed the video. I discovered what it was that I was missing. Erik covered the basics of using my camera (and in a much clearer way than I had ever been taught before) but the thing he taught me which I had never learnt before, was how to see.

I mean REALLY SEE!

None of this "mathematical approach" to composition (who's going to do that when you're trying to catch the essence of the shot)

and none of this "you have to be an artist" rubbish that makes it seem as though you either have the skill or you don't.

Instead, Erik teaches a methodical, yet flexible method which anyone who is interested in learning photography can use. I'll tell you how Erik's Landscape Photography Home Study Course has sky-rocketed my photography career in a moment, but first let me tell you about Erik's course and how you can get a copy for yourself.

Here's what you'll learn when you get The Landscape Photography Home Study Course:

Digital version of the Home Study Course manual "The art of seeing"

is an 80 page manual of pure content, exercises and demonstration colour photographs. No padding like you see in a lot of other courses. As well as takling you step-by-step from the basics top the more advanced techniques and professional secrets

You also get.....

Exercises and cheat sheets after each section so you can put into practice what you have learnt, then check out Erik's self assessment guides.

You can read this online or print it out to start working on at home. It is created in Adobe PDF and we provide you with a link to the free software so you open it immediately.

6 step-by-step videos shot on-location

If you're an amateur photographer like me, then you're pretty visual. You learn by reading and listening but you really need to see things yourself as well. That's why this course is so good.

You also get a series of movies that Erik has specially created so you really see how it all works. You can see how Erik chooses his compositions, the locations he works in, and he even takes you on a night shoot so you can see how to capture the landscape in a way that very few photographers do.

View the videos on-line

You can start learning immediately. As soon as your order is completed you will get immediate access to all the videos. We have provided them in 4 different formats so you can choose to view them streaming on-line or download them to your own computer to watch later.

The videos are suitable for Macs and PCs.

Download the videos to your video iPod

Do you have a new video iPod or plan to get one? You can download all the chapters of the video to your iPod so you can take Erik with you next time you head out into the field to take landscape photographs.

How good is that? If you need to revise how to take that perfect shot you can do it there on the spot before you take the photograph.

Here's the details of what's covered in The Landscape Photography Home Study Course:

Discover how to see like the masters when you look at the work of the early photographers. Like Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams.
Forget spending hours studying your camera's manual. You'll understand clearly how your camera works. You'll find that you can create great photographs with even a very simple camera (digital or film).
You'll understand shutter speed, films, depth of field, apertures and metering systems which you can apply to both film and digital photography. Each is described using examples, like these examples below.

You'll know you are on the right track when you complete targeted exercises designed so you can put into practice exactly what you have learnt - and Erik even includes answers and guides on what you should see in your photographs.
Very simple but clever ways to use light to create stunning landscape photographs.
The best time of the day to photograph - depending on what your subject is.

Discover how to never have an underexposed or overexposed photograph again when photographing the rapid light changes at sunrise and sunset.
6 different elements essential to unique composition. The video and the manual give great demonstrations such as these ones below so you can understand quickly how to use each of these elements in your own photographs.

How, where and when to photograph at night to capture the landscape in a way that few people ever see. You can take photographs like this one of Erik's below, taken using only moonlight compared to the daytime equivalent.

Night Shot Day Time Equivalent

Save nights of wasted filming with the exact details on what film to use, what exposure and what filters to use if you are filming at night in dense forest, open forest, full moon, part moon and many other possibilities.
Get the best shot every time and create a series of photographs that work together when you learn how to perfect sequential photography like this group of photos below

Display your photographs like the professionals with classes on framing, including how to choose the right frames, matts, where to position the photographs and some exciting new methods of framing you may not have seen before.

You can see how valuable this course is. Let me tell you how it has changed my photography career...

Only a few months after competing Erik's Landscape Photography Home Study Course I entered a local photographic competition - and won! That really boosted my confidence. Now my photographs have been published in nature journals, national parks publications, posters and now even display boards used at the entrance of tracks in local national parks.

Here's the photo I took that won the competition

The thing is, I'm not the only one who has done Erik's course and gone on to create fantastic landscape photographs.

Erik introduced me to a few of his other students the other week when I dropped in on one of his advanced "on-site" courses. I met Michael and Eileen. Eileen really inspired me. She's about 75years of age and told me "I have a new camera which I left in its box for a week. I was too scared to take it out. I have come to this late in life. I love it. Thank you Erik for opening my eyes".

Michael is a lot younger than Eileen and works as an accountant. I guess working in an office all day, photography is his release. When I asked him what he thought of the Landscape Photography Home Study course I couldn't shut him up! He said "It's a great course with a progressive teaching style. After just 2 days you find yourself exploring with your eyes wherever you go". And I have to say, I agree with him.

So why am I offering you Erik Gunzel's Landscape Photography Home Study Course?

Erik has actually been selling this course for quite while through local camera shops and colleges. But he's a photographer, not a marketer. He just wants to concentrate on taking great photographs and running photography classes. But I am so passionate about this home study course that I think every amateur photographer should have the opportunity to own it. So I have but this website together and agreed that I would do all the work to make sure you receive the course, and get answers to any questions you may have.

That is why I have this special offer for you today. I'm not really sure how much to charge for The Landscape Photography Home Study Course. I know it is excellent value but everyone else doesn't know yet. So, I am offering it at a low price to start with and asking people to send us their success stories after they have completed the course (you could be one!). When we have enough testimonials to put on this site, people will understand the value of the course, and I will increase the price.

How much would you expect to pay for The Landscape Photography Home Study Course? There are a few courses available on-line. I know, I checked them all out when I was looking for help. Most of them fall into one of 2 categories. Either they are an e-book which has some good info but leaves you with a lot of questions – they are really just introductions to the topic. The other courses, which I seriously considered, look great. The only problem is they are run through photography schools so the courses go for months and you have to work at their pace. You also don't know how good a photographer the tutors are. And they are expensive. The cheapest one I found was $450 but most were over $1000, many in the range of $2500. You may decide to do that later on, but with Erik's course, you can work at your own pace, with excellent teaching material and start taking great photos NOW, rather than months down the track.

I could easily ask $297 for this course, but while we're launching the site I'm going to cut the price to just a fraction of that.

So for today, you can have the whole Home Study Course, that's the manual and the series of movies ready to access or download to your computer in a just a few short minutes for just $97. That's less than I paid for it when I bought it last year. It's even less than it will cost you to frame just one of the excellent photographs you will be take after finishing this course.

You can go ahead and buy now, or you can read on and I'll tell you about my guarantee and how I am taking all the risk.

8 week 100%

Money Back Guarantee

Look, I know this course is excellent value and I know you are going to take great photos when you have finished it. So that's why I am confident to offer you such a generous guarantee.

If you are not happy with Erik Gunzel's Landscape Photography Home Study Course for any reason – then I'll refund your money. I'll even let you keep the copy of the course you have downloaded to your computer. You don't even have to rush through the course because I'm so confident you will love the course that I'm giving you 8 weeks to decide.

So, I take all the risk and I'm happy to.

BONUS – The secret behind Erik's favourite photos

Ever looked at a professional photograph and wondered how the photographer took it? I mean what aperture, film speed and shutter speed they used? I do, so I asked Erik to share the detailed secrets behind some of his favourite photographs. Every week for 3 months you will receive an email with one of Erik's landscape photographs to inspire you, and quick details of how he took the photo to educate you. This bonus is absolutely priceless if you take the time to replicate what Erik has done next time you are out in the field.

Here's how to order

Just to recap what you get when you choose to purchase the Landscape Photography Home Study Course (also called gold membership)

80 Page manual – "The Art of Seeing" – with immediate access for you download to your computer and print if you wish.
Exercises and cheat sheets so you can practice what you learn
Immediate access to 6 videos to download to your computer, video iPod or view on-line. Each video details simple but powerful techniques to master landscape photography, including night photography
3 months "weekly secrets behind Erik's favourite photos"