This channel is not about trends, presets, or copying popular styles. It is about photographic decision-making — why an image works, why it fails, and how to recognize the difference in the field, not after the fact.
You’ll see real landscape photography workflows based on experience from professional photo expeditions: composition choices, light assessment, panoramic thinking, exposure strategy, and editing decisions that preserve realism and intention.
No presets. No shortcuts. No fake perfection.
🌍 Photo Expeditions & Workshops
Small-group and private expeditions focused on real locations, real conditions, and real results.
👉 www.smidphotography.com/expeditions
🧠 1-on-1 Mentoring
Private photo review and editing sessions focused entirely on your images and decisions.
👉 www.smidphotography.com/mentoring
📸 About
Jan Šmíd — Master Qualified European Photographer (Master QEP)
ZEISS Ambassador | Expedition leader | Educator
🌐 www.smidphotography.com
Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
New video today 🎥
Best Landscape Lens 2026 – Sony vs Nikon vs Canon.
This one took a lot of real field testing during photo expeditions in places like Lofoten, Iceland and Madeira.
Quick question for you:
If you had to pick ONE landscape lens for everything…
what would it be?
Sony
Nikon
Canon
or something else?
4 months ago | [YT] | 3
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
I’ve opened private 1-on-1 photography mentoring.
If you want honest feedback on your photos or help with editing, panoramas, night or Aurora photography, this is fully personalized.
Details:
www.smidphotography.com/mentoring
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
We’re cooking up something BIG for you — Sony A7 IV vs A7R V through the eyes of a landscape pro…and the winner might surprise you! 🤯📸
Hit SUBSCRIBE and stay tuned — it’s dropping here very soon! 🔔🔥
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
We’ve just launched a new playlist — it’s dedicated to mobile photography and filmmaking, as well as unboxing interesting phone models that we’ll be using for content creation on our YouTube channel. So it's a slightly different topic than usual, but something that’s personally exciting for us — especially since we shoot most of our field and expedition videos almost exclusively on mobile phones.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
11 months ago | [YT] | 5
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
Back from the Madeira expedition and finally a new video on the channel!
A travel video from where? Yes — Madeira, of course 🌿
And as a bonus: a little teaser of an almost finished vertical night panorama featuring the magical Madeiran Milky Way ✨🌌
1 year ago | [YT] | 5
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
The latest aurora panorama from our March photo expedition to Lofoten (photo info: smidphotography.com), captured with the brand-new Sony FE 16mm f/1.8 G. The full review is coming soon on our channel… and I think you’ll be just as surprised as we were.
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
And another video is out... This time we're kicking off an entirely new series focused on photo editing. The first step? Editing RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw. Check it out...
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
Is there a topic we should focus on in future videos? Struggling with something? Let us know in the comments below what we should cover next. And did you notice we’re now releasing a new video every week? This is currently our latest video...
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
We're trying to get back to filming one video a week. Wish us luck, hopefully we'll keep up, though we might not always manage it on Tuesdays at first :)
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Jan Smid, MASTER QEP
Have you watched our latest video on the best photo spots in the Dolomites? If not, you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/kb8jcq1a96Q?si=g6UYv... And the best part?
And we have not just one, but two videos for you!
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