Landscapes
- landscape photography can be firmly located in the real world, filled with ecological devastation and human artifacts, or it can portray an idealized version of what we want nature to be-pure and magnificent.
- focus on the natural world
Landmarks in Landscape Photography
- when photographers first looked for inspiration for what to photograph, they looked to paintings and they looked at the land.
- Watkins-took photos in yosemite valley and his huge photographs were among the first to be made as art.
- Adams - also inspired by yosemite valley
- his landscape photography always tried to capture the experience of being in the wilderness.
- our way of seeing the natural world was forever changed because of adams's images.
Ansel adams at wawona tunnel Yosemite Valley
Photographing the Landscape
- Composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography
- viewpoint is is the most important part of composition
- Landscape photographers pay careful attention to where they position the camera
- Value, an images light and dark areas, is especially important in black and white
- one goal of good composition is to achieve a balance between unity and variety
- extreme unity occurs when all the parts and objects in your image are related to each other
- Variety refers to all the diverse art elements found in a picture
- balancing unity and variety creates art that is interesting to look at without being chaotic and disturbing
Light
- There are two times during the day when many professional landscape photographers do most of their work-just after sunrise and just before sunset.
- shapes and textures are emphasized by side lighting
- direct lighting creates the highlights and shadows that make a landscape seem three-dimensional
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