5 Mountain Landscape Photography Tips for Stunning Results

SLR Lounge Staff
SLR Lounge
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7 min readMar 18, 2021

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Today we’re going to take your mountain landscape photography to a higher level. Our tips will give you a solid base to build your skills on and learn how to create much stronger compositions. Whether you’re a complete newbie to mountain photography or more advanced, you’ll hopefully find some valuable tips here you can actually use.

You don’t have to be Sherpa Tenzing Norgay to get those great mountain photos. In fact, you don’t have to have any climbing skills at all, as long as you can hike a trail!

There are two main ways to photograph mountain landscapes: creating wide-angle images using the mountains as a backdrop to a foreground scene, and/or using a telephoto lens to zoom in on the mountain peaks themselves, or other alpine detail photos.

Fall color in the Eastern Sierra, 2014 (15mm ultra-wide angle lens) — photo by Matthew Saville
Fall color in the Eastern Sierra, 2014 (105mm telephoto lens) — photo by Matthew Saville

[Related Reading: 5 Essentials for Stunning Landscapes]

1. Do Your Research and Get There Early

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