Etiquette for landscape photography

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I'm off to Northumberland next week for a family holiday but hope to try my hand at seascapes at Bamburgh etc. which I know is a hotspot for landscape photographers. I've never really tried my hand at landscapes/ seascapes and am curious as to what the etiquette is on the beach. I'm going to try and get out there before dawn, but expect there will be other photographers there, so how do you avoid getting in someone elses shot. Do you all stand in a line so no-one is in front of any one else?

It seems like a silly question, but I really can't see how you avoid ruining someone elses composition or them spoiling mine. Can anyone advise a complete landscape novice as it's really baffling me as to how everyone can get their shots when there is a potential crowd.
 
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i've no idea myself but i'd imagine etiquette is to be aware of other photographers and pay them the same respect you'd expect and for anyone else on the beach not to interfere with their holiday or whatever :)
 
don't get in frame, if you think you may be in frame - ask

generally I'm fairly chatty or at least nod/wave. Don't be chatty/get involved if they're directing people though as it can really really put off sitters
 
Plonk yourself down wherever you want and put up a bright pink golf umbrella behind you :D

On a serious note...yep, just do what you would expect others to do for you as nothing more annoying than a fellow photographer who doesn't care less and just walks in your shot :razz:
 
Remember your high visibility vest! :D

seriously it might be worth considering wearing something green so if there is a photographer a mile away he doesn't need to clone to out.

Stuart
 
I thought of this for the first time last night. Went out on some rocks in Morecambe to get sunset shots - there was a guy just ahead of me. I asked if I would get in his way if I went further out, and he said no go ahead, but warned me that it got very slippy. He was right - it was really treacherous and I ended up staggering around like an idiot, dropping things in between rocks and probably getting right in his way. :bonk:
 
Brings up quite a important point. I was at the Edinburgh Fringe Cavalcade and saw a guy who had a big Sigma zoom lens and he was trying anything he could to push through to the front of the crowd.
There was a lady with a young toddler in her arms and he pushed up a couple of places so that the end of his lens cap was almost hitting the baby.
All he needed to do was ask her if he could get a bit closer. I am sure she would have obliged.
He could have quite easily hit the child with the lens.
Luckily he didnt but there were only millimetres in it!
I am sure you will be fine (seeing you are taking the effort to ask about etiquette).
Hope you get some great shots. Look forward to seeing them.
 
Get there early - first in, first pick of the locations. Other than that, it's down to common courtesy, and as Jarod said, as you're asking , you pretty must be the kind of person that'll do the right thing. :thumbs:
 
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