Photographing mountains, trees, seascapes, or scenics? Learn how to use the essential elements of good landscape photography to improve your own landscape photographs. Author of Outdoor Photographer magazine's popular On Landscape column, William Neill shares the art of using quality of light, strong graphic design, and emotional elements in your work. His insightful lessons are based on three decades of experience in creating and publishing his work. Winter, spring, summer or fall, the challenging assignments and invaluable critiques will refine your technique and expand your creative potential. In this exciting online course, your techniques will improve and you will see in new ways!
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Sue Dehn
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Sue's Gallery
member since: 11/1/2003
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With the help of this course, I developed a new way to look at my environment before I snapped the shutter. Bill had excellent editing suggestions and patiently stay'd with me until I got it right!
3/5/2013 6:44:58 AM
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John D. Roach
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John's Gallery
jdroachphotography.com
member since: 11/2/2010
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This was a wonderful course. Bill challenges his students to "see" and transform an image into an image that is exciting. It is as much about how to capture the image as to how to, through the tools of the digital dark room, turn the image into art. I know I now have a different perspective about images I have already taken regarding how to enhance them in post processing as well as a increased awareness of how to use light and composition to a positive advantage. I highly recommend Bill's course to those who already have a solid foundation in photography. Students will benefit most by being prepared to dialogue with Bill and share additional images during the critique process so as learn other ways of viewing the same scene and capturing the best tonal ranges of an image. Bill, thank you.
6/11/2012 5:21:09 AM
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Cheryl Winn
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Cheryl's Gallery
member since: 2/22/2010
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Great course. The course material was very clear and covered aspects of lighting and mood which I found inspiring. The critiques were detailed, clear and encouraging. I found it particularly helpful that William asked to see alternate versions of photos submitted so that these could be discussed also. This help me to better evaluate my own work and be clearer about how I could best work the scene.
4/10/2012 6:56:59 PM
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Kristia Adams
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Kristia's Gallery
member since: 9/19/2010
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This was a great class to hone my landscape photography skills. William was a great instructor who gave a lot of great constructive criticism and encouraged us to resubmit our images with improvements or other versions of the photo. I highly recommend this class!
4/5/2012 6:18:38 PM
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Stacey Williams
member since: 8/25/2010
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This was a great class, I highly recommend it. I really enjoyed taking it and William Neills critiques and comments were very informative and insightful. I learned a great deal and I believe that my photography has moved forward thanks to this class. I look forward to taking another class with Mr. Neill.
3/8/2012 3:51:45 PM
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Liandra M. Barry
photobyliandra.com
member since: 4/30/2005
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This class has change my nature/landscape photography and the way I see things and places I've been looking at for 20 years! I no longer shoot one frame and go. I look, I really look, I move around and take more than one version in different angles. I didn't care much for landscape photography before but now, I'm loving it more each time. Thanks William, truly enjoyed this class and all your great advice!
6/1/2011 9:25:43 AM
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Vickie Oakley
vickieoakleyphotography.com
member since: 6/2/2007
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I thoroughly enjoyed this class. William Neill is a top notch instructor! I have been shooting for 10+ years, but my insipiration for photography was almost dead-he helped to bring it back for me and gave me a better understanding. I will defintely recommend this instructor to other students at Betterphoto.com
12/2/2010 8:02:27 PM
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Patty Reay
member since: 10/25/2009
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Loved this class! Bill's feedback was very helpful and encouraging. The weekly lessons were interesting and well written, and I appreciated how he encouraged us to re-work the assignments based on his feedback and re-submit the results. He was also very quick to respond to questions. I definitely feel like I learned a lot and my photography has improved. I am eager to sign up for another one!
8/11/2010 11:11:56 PM
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Mary K. Stewart
member since: 2/27/2010
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This course was enjoyable and helped me to see things I previously did not see to improve my photography. Mr. Neill is an excellent instructor as he took time out for each individual student in answering questions, giving critiques and suggestions and even following up after some suggested improvements had been submitted. I would definitely recommend this course or any course from Mr. Neill.
7/12/2010 2:01:56 PM
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Melvin J. Williams
member since: 4/11/2008
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Without doubt an excellent course. It will expand your vision of Nature Photography. The supportive and insightful critiques encourage your developement as a photographer.
11/10/2009 3:25:04 PM
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Cheryl Ann Gould
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Cheryl's Gallery
member since: 1/30/2008
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Rating:
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Wonderful class! Very helpful critiques and always the suggestion to submit variations of photos. Really made me think and trust my instinct more.
3/11/2009 6:01:11 AM
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Vendla Stockdale
member since: 9/23/2004
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This was an extremely helpful course, I still have a long way to go but William certainly helped me in seeing things with a different persepective and to look a little deeper then what is just in front of me.
8/27/2008 2:57:29 PM
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Randy Fullbright
fullbrightstudio.com
member since: 10/5/2007
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I have had two incrediable instructors at bp, Bill Neill and Jim Zuckerman.Jim taught me the basic's and Bill taught me to see things that I would not have paid attention to before taking his class,thank's guy's.This is a wonderful class for those who want to learn how to take better landscape photo's,this comes from someone who did not know what shutter speed or apeture was 8 months ago.
4/29/2008 6:55:03 AM
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John P. Franzis
member since: 11/15/2005
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This was my first BetterPhoto course and I really wasn’t sure what my experience would be. I wondered what the lessons would be like? How valuable would the critiques be? Would I feel like I learned something? Any concerns that I had quickly vanished. The course was much better than I could have imagined. The “lessons” were very clear and very instructive. The assignments were challenging but worth it! William Neil’s critiques were also very valuable. He told you what he liked about my photos and what he didn’t. He also managed to provide very clear suggestions on how I could improve them. There were several instances where I thought I had done a really good job with a photo but he was able to point out flaws that hadn’t been obvious to me (of course once pointed out they suddenly became very obvious!). There were then clear suggestions on how I could address the flaws. Following his suggestions always resulted in a very much improved photo! I know that I have a lot more room for improvement but feel that I am a much better photographer after taking this 4-week course!
7/27/2007 8:59:26 AM
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Nancy de Flon
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Nancy's Gallery
member since: 9/24/2006
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Rating:
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I knew I'd be on the same wavelength as Bill because of his believe in a transcendent value to landscape photography. But he's a tough critic too, and very attentive to his students as well as conscientious and encouraging. I highly recommend this course for those who want to improve their landscape photography.
7/9/2007 7:45:24 AM
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William A. Oberholtzer
member since: 5/16/2007
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I enjoyed the course very much. I thought the material was well organized and written with plenty of visual examples of Mr. Neil’s work to inspire us. I enjoy his column in Out Door Photographer so for me this was a special treat. What I found difficult was applying the principles taught in the lessons, not because I did not understand, but because I must be more aware of light: and how it changes and shapes the subject. Mr. Neil’s comments on my pictures where very helpful and but not too critical. I believe I will take this course again after I have had time to practice what I learned and apply it to my photography. I also learned not to be satisfied with taking only one exposure of a subject but to take many. I have a poor habit of taking only one exposure then moving on. I have learned to slow down, think about what I want to do, visualize it, and then take my exposures. An excellent course!
7/5/2007 12:45:52 PM
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