My name's Steve Gosling.
and I'm a professional landscape photographer.
I'm based in North Yorkshire and I've been an Olympus ambassador for several years now.
I've been taking photographs since I was about 7 years old.
I got into landscape photography when I was in my late twenties, early thirties.
I've always been a keen walker, I love the outdoors, I like being out in the landscape.
Stunning locations like the Lake District for example.
And I wanted to record some of the amazing sights that I saw when I was out walking,
so it was natural for me to grab a camera and record that through my photographs
and so the two happily merged together,
the two passions of outdoors, being outdoors in the open air and walking and taking photographs.
[inaudible] taken at dusk in Glencoe, which was an eight minute...
But a lot can happen in those two minutes, the light levels can change, the sun could breakthrough...
So you press the OK button...
This is a standard classic shot in this location.
A good lead-in view, but I'm trying to pick out the contrasts
rather than go for the colour, which I normally go for and we'll just see how it goes.
Giving it a stop, yep.
OK, now try that. Yep. -Try that?
-You're letting me press the button?
Yep, because it's then you're photograph not mine. [laughter]
-Right down? No, I tend to move it too far
-Oh right, okay and then come back. and then bring it back.
If you can keep the information out the shadow areas
you're going to reduce the chance of noise
and also you're going to get better quality information out of the highlight end of that...
My advice to somebody who wants to give landscape photography a go, is basically go out there and try it.
the only way that you'll find out whether it works for you
is getting the camera, grabbing a tripod, grabbing some filters, get out in the landscape and photograph it.
If that's what interests you, then do it.
Two things I would say - one is be prepared to get wet.
I have this expression that if you haven't got wet, you probably haven't got a good photograph.
What that implies is that I'm working on the edge of a weather system.
Either bad weather moving in or bad weather moving out. That's when you get really dramatic light.
The other piece of advice is if you enjoy you're sleep, don't become a landscape photographer.
Because I'm afraid it involves late finishes and very early starts.
In terms of settings of the camera for landscape photography,
then I tend to set the camera to the lowest ISO possible, because I'm using a tripod 99% of the time.
I always leave the camera set on auto white balance, I can always adjust that in post processing.
The important thing for me is to shoot in aperture priority usually or manually because I'm interested in controlling depth of field,
so the setting of the aperture is my main determinant and the shutter speed is then determined by the camera.
The most important facet of the exposure for me is to check the histogram.
When I first started shooting RAW, it was the existence, the availability of the histogram
on the back of the camera that convinced me that digital photography was the way to go.
Never, no I've not done any landscape, just wildlife and a bit of street photography.
and that's- I've only been seriously into it for a couple of years.
Hopefully I've got a lot more years!
But I'm learning a lot from these other guys who are on the course.
One of the most important aspects of landscape photography for me is photographing what you feel.
So when I'm out in the landscape I'm trying to represent visually what I feel as much as what I see.
So I have to be moved by the subject in front of me, it doesn't matter whether that's love or hate
but I have to have an emotional response, so I have to have some passion about what I'm photographing
and that's really important, I always say to people if you're not stirred by something,
if you're not moved by it, how can you expect the viewer to be moved by the final image?