We've all read the websites that tell us to use certain techniques to improve our landscape and seascape photography skills, or to post process our photos in a special way and nearly all of these suggestions are extremely valid ones but once you understand the basics there is one extremely quick and easy way to improve your photography and that is to head outside and just start taking photos.
Sounds too simple? Well it's true, there is nothing like practise and lots of it to quickly boost and enhance your skills.
The other rationale behind this idea is that the more you are out shooting the greater chance you have of capturing that 'magic' light that no one else has managed to capture before.
We've all heard the term that practise makes perfect and whilst I'm not claiming to be perfect I've certainly found that the more I'm outside shooting the more I'm thinking about shooting and the better I get.
When I first started out I couldn't understand why I wasn't capturing any decent landscape photographs in six months I'd managed to capture maybe three sellable photos.
Finally it dawned on me after talking to some pros that I just wasn't getting out there enough firstly to improve my skills and secondly to improve my chances at capturing a great photo.
I quickly learnt that I had to be more obsessive about getting out there so I went from taking photos once every two to three weeks to living and breathing landscape photography and spending up to 10hrs a week taking photos.
An amazing thing happened my photography improved out of site and my portfolio expanded extremely quickly to the point that I had a collection of photos that I was extremely proud of.