Elevate Your Photography Game: A Must-Try Tip for 2025!

Do you often feel exasperated with your photography while out in the field? It’s simple to slip into habits and techniques that might hinder your photography and curb your creativity. Are you seeking a method to step outside of that as we approach 2025? This video offers a practical suggestion to assist you!

We have all experienced challenges with our photography. Whether we find ourselves in a slump and potentially losing inspiration, or we perceive that our progress has stagnated or decreased notably. Alternatively, perhaps we become easily frustrated when capturing situations or scenes that don’t turn out as we envisioned.

Mark Denney showcases various scenes from the Dolomites in Italy while discussing multiple images. Denney begins with a scene that never fully developed, as the conditions were unfavorable, featuring low water levels and less captivating light. Ultimately, on his journey back to the trailhead, he discovers a far more intriguing, unforeseen scene, which results in one of his favorite images from the journey.

Denney elaborates on what lesson that experience reinforced for him, aiding in dispelling the preconceptions that we photographers frequently carry and freeing ourselves from limitations. He presents additional examples where applying that singular tip allowed him to leave otherwise disappointing scenes with photographs he was satisfied with.

For me, this served as a valuable reminder of the practices I have already attempted with my landscape photography and to keep this tip at the forefront as I set out to shoot.