Landscape Photography
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PHOTO REFERENCE:
Group 2: Presentation
Focus on the foreground
Take photos during the
"Golden Hour".
Araluen Botanic Park. 2014. The Garden [image]. Viewed 3 September 2014 from http://www.araluenbotanicpark.com.au/gallery/the-gardens/
Crighton, S 2013, Byron Bay 061, [image] Unpublished.
Crighton, S 2013, Clarks Beach Fun – original, [image] Unpublished.
Crighton, S 2013, Clarks Beach Fun – final, [image] Unpublished.
Crighton, S 2012, Tallows Beach – original, [image] Unpublished.
Crighton, S 2012, Tallows Beach – final, [image] Unpublished.
Dadfar, K 2014. Photographing the desert 5 [image]. Viewed 31 August 2014 from http://digital-photography-school.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Photographing-The-Desert-5.jpg
Essick, P 2014, Lake Powell, Utah [image]. Viewed 9 September 2014 from http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/002/cache/lake-powell-drought_264_600x450.jpg
Goldstein, J 2012, Preparing for desert photography travel, [image]. Viewed 9 September 2014 from http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/5/LAN_DV_JMG_0523M_500c.jpg
Leslie, E 2012. Glaring Omission [image]. Viewed 3 September 2104 from http://digital-photography-school.com/4-tips-for-shooting-drop-dead-gorgeous-waterfalls/glaring-omission-crystal-creek-falls/
Leslie, E 2012. Upper Brandy Creek Falls X marks the spot [image]. Viewed 3 September 2014 from http://digital-photography-school.com/4-tips-for-shooting-drop-dead-gorgeous-waterfalls
Requirements
Requi
TECHNIQUES
Leading Lines
ARTICLE REFERENCE PG2
You should have at least 5 of these represented in your final images:
Focal Point
Consider and focus on your Foreground
Emphasize the sky
Leading Lines/Vanishing Point
Shoot During the “Magic Hours”
Unusual Point of View
Diagonal Lines
Using Geometric Shapes to Organize your Picture
Balancing or Unbalancing your Photograph (symmetrically or asymmetrically)
Framing your Image (with tree branches for example)
REQUIREMENTS: 5 final images
Caputo, R 2007, Landscape photography tips, National Geographic, viewed 19 August 2014, <http://photography.nationalgeographic.com.au/photography/photo-tips/landscape-photography-tips/>.
Carter, A 2013, What is landscape photography, Andrew Carter, viewed 24 August 2014, <http://carterlandscapephotography.com.au/what-is-landscape-photography/> .
Dadfar, K 2013, 6 tips for photographing deserts, Digital photography school, viewed 31 August 2014, <http://digital-photography-school.com/6-tips-for-photographing-deserts/>.
Davey, S 2008, Photography tips shooting sand, Wanderlust, viewed 31 August 2014, <http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/articles/advice/photography-tips-shooting-sand?page=all>.
Giblet, R 2007, 'Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plains, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 335–346.
Gernsheim, A, Gerhsheim, H 1958, The History of Photography (from the earliest use of camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914), 2nd edn, Helmut Gernsheim, London.
ARTICLE REFERENCE PG1
WATERSCAPES
Caputo, R 2007, Landscape photography tips, National Geographic, viewed 19 August 2014, <http://photography.nationalgeographic.com.au/photography/photo-tips/landscape-photography-tips/>.
Carter, A 2013, What is landscape photography, Andrew Carter, viewed 24 August 2014, <http://carterlandscapephotography.com.au/what-is-landscape-photography/> .
Dadfar, K 2013, 6 tips for photographing deserts, Digital photography school, viewed 31 August 2014, <http://digital-photography-school.com/6-tips-for-photographing-deserts/>.
Davey, S 2008, Photography tips shooting sand, Wanderlust, viewed 31 August 2014, <http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/articles/advice/photography-tips-shooting-sand?page=all>.
Giblet, R 2007, 'Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plains, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 335–346.
Gernsheim, A, Gerhsheim, H 1958, The History of Photography (from the earliest use of camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914), 2nd edn, Helmut Gernsheim, London.
INTRODUCTION
WATERFALLS AND RIVERS
WATERFALL LANDSCAPE
Time of year and day can affect depth of color and overall impression. A midday sun washes out colors.
Early morning or before sunset brings out the best colors in the sky and water.
(Caputo 2007).
Avoid busy, disjointed images by erasing irrelevant elements or changing your angle (Giblet 2007, p.338 & Sisson 2012). Decreased contrast, increased brightness, and a highlighted foreground element create texture and complement rather than dominate a picture’s overall story contributing to a dynamic visual experience (Rowse 2013 & Sisson 2012).
Photography is a combination of art and science. The meaning of photography comes from the Greek roots ‘phōs’ meaning light and ‘graphé’ meaning drawing; the literal definition being ‘drawing with light’ (Liddell et al. 1996). Camera technology can be traced back to the 4th and 5th centuries BCE (Krebs 2004) and the earliest known successfully developed photograph was produced by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce in 1825 (Gernsheim et al. 1958). Whilst there are many styles of photography landscape photography captures the purest forms of nature, showcasing natural occurrences and utilising man made creations to complement the scene (Giblet 2007, p336).
Everyone loves a beautiful landscape!
In this lesson, you will explore many ways of composing your landscape photographs. Pay attention, because not following directions or fulfilling requirements will result in having to do the project over.
Have fun! Work hard!
Effective use of natural light provides a balance between color contrasts and texture suggestions (Rowse 2013 & Sisson 2012). Morning and afternoon photography often captures deeper contrasts of color and dramatic shadows (Meyer 2013).
Changing the viewpoint and taking the picture from new angles could lead to a unique perspective (Rowse 2013). Aiming the camera upwards takes advantage of bright sunlight creating a striking back-lit scene (Meyer 2013)
Moving water such as rivers and waterfalls are very tricky to shoot, freezing moving water in time is challenging. Adjusting shutter-speed faster to freeze, or slower to blur flowing water adds life and power (Leslie 2012 & Sisson 2012). In setting your shutter speed you give life to your moving water. Make sure you use a tripod.
Finding balance to convey mood requires assessing color, light, reflection and movement (Sisson 2012). The perfect angle, at the right time of day captures light giving depth and strength to an otherwise static image (Carter 2013 & Leslie 2012). A photograph taken at dawn or dusk adds tone and character to colors and shadows (Leslie 2012).
Careful selection of the key elements creates dynamic mood-filled compositions – a lazy slow moving river, rushing mountain stream or cascading waterfall (Caputo 2007 & Leslie 2012) - following a visual line of interest further into the scene (Caputo 2007 & Rowse 2013).
Tripod-use in these instances ensures a still camera during exposure avoiding unwanted blurring (Leslie 2012 & Rowse 2013).
FORESTS
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Eric Leslie.2012.Glaring Omission [image].
MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE
If unavoidable, dramatic photos in the middle of the day should involve flora, fauna, sky, leading lines to draw the eye further into the scene. Adjusting settings to avoid over-exposure is imperative (Caputo 2007 & Dadfar 2013).
A foreground focal point to draw the eye is needed to avoid an empty scene with nowhere for the viewer’s eyes to rest (Rowse 2013). Minimize lens changes to prevent sand/dust-damage (Davey 2008).