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[Robin Sarac]

This is some undeveloped land behind my house...



I don't feel like I'm able to capture how expansive scenes like this feel in "real life". Any tips? How do these master landscape photographers get such deep, massive feeling landscapes?!

[porterd2nz]

I don't know how they get the sense of space. I had a play with the image, but I'm not terribly good at this sort of thing. I like how the ground looks in my image, but the sky has turned to custard.



Looks too mucha like a bad HDR now.

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by Robin Sarac

I don't feel like I'm able to capture how expansive scenes like this feel in "real life". Any tips? How do these master landscape photographers get such deep, massive feeling landscapes?!

I think you're missing the mountains that so many of those expansive landscapes have lol. In all reality, I think that what is missing is something of interest. The plain blue sky takes up a lot of the picture. Maybe if the ratios were reversed (more land, less sky) there would be more interest (even if it is flat).

You can work with really flat land, think wheat fields at sunset or even in the middle of the day when the wheat is brown and the sky is very blue. But then there is some height to that, and some expanse. Consider what landscapes you like, and look at what draws you to them. Is it the hills, is it water, is it reflections, is it contrasting colours, is it height, is it repetition? Not every picture is going to be Ansel Adams, but if you start looking at what you really like in other landscapes it will help you to bring those ideas into your own.

[FotoMike]

Hope you don't mind, i played with the picture a little bit. Not sure if i actually helped it out not though lol.



I think it is a good shot, but i have to agree with the last post, it is lacking that "something". But i bet you could find it!

[porterd2nz]

I don't know what direction this view is, but you might try to capture it with that old standby, sunrise or sunset. That should add something.

[yurik]

It's a great capture. I'm a huge sucker for nice looking clouds :x

But like others have said, it feels like it's missing something. If you could ever visit the area again, you should try to get there at dusk or dawn to really get a nice capture.

Another idea is to manipulate the image to create some more depth and contrast.
One of my favorite photographers (Sam Javanrouh of Daily Dose of Imagery) makes this really beautiful almost surreal skies.
If you want to try to copy it, there is a great forum thread that talks about it here (scroll towards the middle of the page to see what Javanrouh says he does to his images).

I see a lot of potential in this photo. I just think it takes some work to get it to shine ^^