• 12 Hours of Video Content
• 15 On Location and Studio Post-processing Lessons
• Intro to the Basics of Photography

• Full RAW files, PSDs, and CaptureONE catalogs
• 8 Behind the Scenes Episodes

Fstoppers.com has teamed up with Elia Locardi to produce Photographing The World: Landscape Photography & Post-processing. With 15 lessons and more than 12 hours of video content, this tutorial will take you from the on-location capture all the way through Elia’s post-processing techniques in the studio.  To produce a truly unique landscape tutorial unlike any other, we traveled to both Iceland and New Zealand so we could teach lessons in two completely different climates and seasons.  From waterfalls and ice caves in Iceland to lakes and ocean sides in New Zealand, Photographing the World has something for everyone interested in landscape photography.

Meet Elia

Elia Locardi is an internationally acclaimed professional travel photographer, Fujifilm Global Ambassador, writer, public speaker and highly experienced educator who spends his life shooting some of the most beautiful locations in the world. Location independent since March of 2012, he and his wife live a 100% mobile lifestyle, perpetually traveling from country to country, continuously circling the globe. Since he began traveling full-time in 2009, he has visited more than 50 countries and flown over one million miles.

Using a combination of traditional in-camera techniques, targeted times of day, and advanced post-processing methods, Elia has developed a widely recognized and highly unique style of travel photography. With each photograph, his goal is to share his vision so others can see the world as he does, full of color, texture, depth and emotion. Fstoppers is excited to team up with Elia to share his photography process from the moment the image is captured all the way to the final post production rendering.

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Here are a couple of Before and After Examples included in the Landscape Photography Tutorial

The full landscape photography tutorial is broken down into 15 lessons, plus an Intro to Gear and Intro to the Basics, which covers all of the gear, scouting tips, composition techniques, and camera settings Elia uses on a daily basis to create his stunning imagery. With the tutorial download, you will also receive access to his RAW files and reference Photoshop PSD files.  This means you can follow along with your own edits as Elia teaches you every step of his streamlined workflow.  From simple layer masking techniques to complex blending with luminosity masks, this tutorial will give you the tools to make stunning landscape photographs yourself.

This tutorial includes 15 lessons and post processing sessions

What’s included in the Digital Download:

• 12 Hours of Video Content (1080p, 23.9fps, H.264 mpg4, over 25GB of material)
• 15 On Location and Studio Post-processing Lessons
• Intro to the Basics of Photography
• Overview of every piece of photography gear Elia uses and why
• Full RAW files and companion software catalogs so you can follow along (Lightroom, PSD, and CaptureONE)
• 8 Behind the Scenes episodes of our experiences traveling and filming this incredible project
• Private Elia Facebook Group access for extended education and photo sharing

Follow along and edit your own versions of each image

For these video tutorials, our goal is for you to be able to jump right in and create world class images from day one. So instead of teaching just the basic buttons, sliders and software, we are going to be working on the actual files we captured together in the field. As we go along, the complexity will ramp up, and new tools and techniques will be added in each lesson as you follow along.  By the end of this tutorial you will know how to use Elia’s workflow to produce stunning landscape images of your own.

What is covered in this tutorial:

• Photography Basics (ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture, White Balance, etc)
• Overview of best lenses and gear for Landscape photography
• Tips for better composition
• Focus Stacking and maximizing depth of field
• Bracketing and multi exposure blending
• Graduated Neutral Density Filters
• Solid Neutral Density Filters
• Blurring water and skies with long exposures
• Building Panoramic images
• Dealing with Sun Flare
• Understanding Light (Golden Hour, Blue Hour, Sunrise and Sunset)
• Using lens compression to your advantage
• Removing and adding the human element into your images
• Polarizers​
• Bracketing and multiple exposure blending
• RAW Processing and Editing Workflow
• Color correction and image adjustment
• Basic object removal, painting, and cloning
• Masking and Layering Techniques
• Introduction to Luminosity Masking
• Time Blending (combining exposures shot at different times)

When building the lessons for this tutorial, it was important for us to teach not only the technical aspects of landscape photography but also the creative and subjective artistry that makes this genre so popular.  With this in mind, each lesson contains new challenges and new solutions to help you become better equipped when out in the field.

Please note that some of the tools that Elia uses during this tutorial have evolved since the time of filming. Specifically, some of the plug-ins are no longer fully supported by Photoshop, so you may need to use workarounds in order to install and utilize them. Additionally some of the plug-ins that previously cost money are now free. If you are interested in a plug-in free workflow, Elia only uses mainstream software in Photographing the World 3.

Bonus Fstoppers Behind the Scenes

As an extra bonus, Lee and Patrick have edited 8 short behind the scenes episode of their travels with Elia and Naomi Locardi.  These videos act as a personal diary through both Iceland and New Zealand, giving you an intimate look into how each lesson was filmed and produced.  Living life out of a suitcase while carrying 100s of pounds of camera gear isn’t always the most glamorous lifestyle but it does makes for some great entertainment.

Two Additional Photographing the World Tutorials!

If you are not aware, Photographing the World 1 is only part of the Photographing the World series. If you are new to Elia’s work or are looking for the most comprehensive education on landscape and cityscape photography, we have combined multiple tutorials below with additional savings. For more information on either of these other tutorials, head over to the tutorial page for Photographing the World 2 as well as Photographing the World 3.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

About Elia Locardi

Elia Locardi is an internationally acclaimed professional travel photographer, Fujifilm Global Ambassador, writer, public speaker and highly experienced educator who spends his life shooting some of the most beautiful locations in the world. Since he began traveling full-time in 2009, he has visited more than 65 countries, flown nearly 2 million miles, and collaborated with major companies, brands, countries, NGOs, and tourism agencies on nearly every continent.