- the subject of landscape photography is a place, and it 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.
- three types
- the grand landscape
- details
- abstract
- Landmarks in Landscape Photography
- when photographers first looked for inspiration for what to shoot, they looked to paintings and land
- Carleton E Watkins (1829-1916) - wanted to capture the grandeur of the American West
- his huge landscape photographs were among the first to be made as art
- Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
- inspired by Yosemite Valley
- see previous post
- Example:
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| Ansel Adams - Mount Williamson http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artwork_Detail.asp?G=&gid=118598&which=&aid=656266&wid=424136490&source=inventory&rta=http://www.artnet.com |
- Timothy O'Sullivan (U.S., 1840-1882)
- learned photography by for Matthew Brady
- was sent by Brady to photograph the Civil War
- after the war, he was the lead photographer on the first U.S. government photography survey of the lands west of the Mississippi River
- he used large, heavy cameras and equipment, and glass-plate negatives
- was the first photographer to capture many of the now familiar sights in the American west (Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Canyon de Chelly, etc.)
- his shots were straightforward documentary of extraordinary landscapes
- he inspired many photographers in the 60s and 70s
- Example:
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| Timothy O'Sullivan - Canyon de Chelle http://americanart.si.edu/helios/AmericanPhotographs/obosult03.html |
- Thinking Artistically
- composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography and viewpoint is the most important part of composition
- pay close attention to where you position your camera because an inch or two in either direction can cause for a significant change
- value, an image's light and dark areas, is very important in black-and-white landscape photography
- images with a wide variety of tones can be very dramatic
- try to achieve a balance between unity and variety
- Example - see below
- Composition, Balance, and the Rule of Thirds
- one challenge is where to place the objects in the frame or space of the image - composition
- balance - how the objects relate to each other in size, value, color, and location
- symmetrical - asymmetrical - radial
- remember - sometimes rules are meant to be broken
- Example:
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| Composition, rule of thirds, value, and unity http://full-screen-mode.blogspot.com/p/links-de-fotografos.html |
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