Photography tips

Landscape

Chapel Bridge and Water Tower in Lucerne at sunset

Key tips

Maintain a steady camera grip with a shutter speed of 1/30 s to avoid blur in your landscape composition.
Use a narrow aperture such as f/16 to achieve maximum depth of field across the entire landscape.
Choose a medium aperture like f/7.1 to achieve good depth of field for the landscape.

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The exact camera settings for each shot are shown below it - a starting point for recreating the look yourself. Click through to a photograph for detailed photography tips on that specific shot, under "Photography tips for this image".

All subjects City Mountains Landscape Lucerne Pilatus Lake Lucerne

View across Lake Lucerne towards Mount Pilatus at sunset

12 mm · f/16 · 1/60 s · ISO 640

View from the lakeshore towards Lake Lucerne and the city of Lucerne at sunset

15 mm · f/4.5 · 1/320 s · ISO 100

Swiss flag at the stern of a boat on Lake Lucerne with mountains in the background

7 mm · f/1.8 · 1/30 s · ISO 1250