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Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines

Lesson 24 from: Landscape Photography: Start to Finish

Matt Kloskowski

Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines

Lesson 24 from: Landscape Photography: Start to Finish

Matt Kloskowski

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Lesson Info

24. Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Course Introduction

08:52
2

5 Things Every Landscape Photographer Should Know

23:32
3

Camera Gear

11:26
4

Gear Q & A

33:04
5

On Location: Weather & Safety

18:55
6

On Location Pre-Visualzation Sutro Baths

07:29
7

On Location: Camera Settings

21:59
8

On Location: Composition

27:09
9

Matt Klowskowski - My Story

06:28
10

On Location: Bracketing

15:15
11

On Location: Artistic Choices

16:12
12

On Location: Pre-Visualzation Marshall's Beach

06:09
13

On Location: Long Exposure

15:05
14

On Location: iPhone

17:31
15

On Location: Wrap Location

02:15
16

Location Challenges: How to Shoot in Open Sun with No Clouds

01:52
17

Location Challenges: How to shoot Cloudy, Stormy, & Blah Weather

01:50
18

Location Challenges: How to shoot Beaches

01:27
19

Location Challenges: How to shoot Waterfalls

01:40
20

Location Challenges: How to shoot Panorama Vista Scenes

01:38
21

Location Challenges: How to shoot Lakes

02:11
22

Location Challenges: How to shoot Mountains

02:24
23

Location Challenges: How to shoot Deserts

01:29
24

Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines

01:44
25

Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow

02:53
26

Location Challenges: How to shoot Backlit Situations

06:56
27

Outdoor Landscape Workflow & Organization

31:38
28

Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 1

44:17
29

Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 2

26:52
30

Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 1

30:35
31

Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 2

12:31
32

HDR for Landscape Photography

07:54
33

Panoramas for Landscape Photography

18:14
34

How to shoot Landscape with Adobe Photoshop in Mind

21:14
35

Sky Replacement in Photoshop

18:48
36

Processing Project: Stormy Mountains

09:12
37

Processing Project: Crashing Waves on the Rocks

10:01
38

Processing Student Raw Images

41:03
39

Final Q&A

14:17

Lesson Info

Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines

City skyline, I think you guys already know what I'm gonna say about this one. I think I said it today. So what are the challenges? Challenges are trying to be there at the right time. I think skylines look best with their lights on, kinda like lighthouses. I see a lot of pictures of lighthouses taken midday and they're nice, I mean, lighthouses, most of 'em are beautiful. But to me, I want a picture of a lighthouse with the light on. It's the same thing with a city skyline, I think they really look great with the lights on. It's tough to do, tough to capture it at the right time. I think that twilight time right before sunrise, right after sunset is gonna be your key time, because a black sky just doesn't look as good in those photos. So I think we wanna try to avoid those black skies in there and so we wanna get some color in there. Again, you see a little bit of color. I did a longer exposure on this one. I did like, a 30 second exposure on it, so I'm on a tripod and you see the str...

eaky clouds? It just kinda adds a little bit something different to the photo. So what do you do? Lights should be on. You can't always control this, but try to put yourself there on a day where you think the lights are gonna be on. Weekends are gonna tend to be the worse for city buildings, twilight color for the sky.

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Ratings and Reviews

Christian Ruvolo
 

Mat Kloskowski class is really amazing, full of very useful tipps and inspiration. Wonderful pictures by him help to understand the explanations an I am learning A LOT from him!!! Thank you for the class!!! TOP!!!!

Louie
 

I love Matt's teaching style, humor, honesty, friendliness. I love On1 and all the other demos and critiques he does. He makes me enjoy the craft/art of photography much more and is a great inspiration.

a Creativelive Student
 

This class was for beginners and I believe Matt did a great job of giving students an great introduction to landscape photography. More on the practical than technical side, but that seems appropriate for an intro class. He comes across as a "real" guy who loves what he does and is eager to share his knowledge. Those new to photography will get a lot of helpful information and tips in this course.

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