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Originally Posted by RichardArran
Essential things for landscapes.
1. Patience
2. Planning
3. Luck
4. A wide angle lens
5. Grads and a polariser
6. A good level of fitness
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I guess my landscapes have generally missed out on the first two of these
![Frown](images/smilies/frown.gif)
Some of my favorites from film days involved pulling the car over to the side of the road, getting out, snap, and back in the car before my passenger/other road users complained.
More recently I've had some chances to take 5-10 minutes considering a shot - but only rarely.
I have to admit the one attempt I've had with Grads proved a complete disaster. Post processing using a shadows & highlights feature is so much better. (Grads don't come shaped to fit mountians).
The polariser is probably in my view the most useful of all filters - and definitely come's into its own for landscapes/water if your desperate polaroid sunglasses can work as least for compacts (They were used in my best two digital landscapes in around Milford sound in New Zealand - unfortunately I doubt I'll be going back)