Landscape Photography | White Cliffs Dover | Slow Down, Dude!

In my last video, I talked about my shoot with Thomas Heaton and the things I learned. One of those things was to slow down.
Landscape photography in particular is about finding the details. It's about finding the perfect image in a massive space. And, all too often, I spend my time racing around shooting as many images as possible rather than picking out the coolest.
So, here at the White Cliffs of Dover, I tried to put that to the test. Rather than racing all over the place trying to grab a lot of photos, I slowed down and looked for that perfect shot. Or, at least the best one.
Of course, landscape photography is also all about capture the right light, and I was in for a fight with the White Cliffs over light. First, it really started raining hard – which actually improved the light – and then it cleared up. The light went from harsh, to beautiful, to raining, to beautiful, to harsh again all in a couple minutes. But, I fought through it. And, I actually got a pretty epic scene at one point as a perfect rainbow formed from one end of the horizon to the other.
The White Cliffs of Dover are actually quite challenging to shoot. Like a lot of landscape photography locations, it's just really hard to capture the scale. So, I struggled a bit with that. But, eventually I found a couple simple compositions I really liked. There are certain places that you just need to keep simple, rather than think too much. The White Cliffs are sort of like that.
By the time the light disappeared, I think I got more than 1 cool image. And, I know, the goal of today was to focus on making just one image. And, I did that. So, the other 2 or 3 photos of The White Cliffs I got were just a bonus.
This landscape photography tutorial is full of tips, and I hope they're useful. But, as is always the case, if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments here on YouTube. I'll get back to as many as I can.
Also, this is the last of my photography vlogs from here in England. I had full intentions of going out shooting in Canterbury tomorrow, but rain is on the forecast. So, instead it'll be my monthly round up.
Then, I'll be headed back home for a bit.
Lots of amazing landscape photography locations in Canada; so, obviously, I'm looking forward to going back and shooting a couple different locations.