Chapter 9: Landscapes!

Camera Settings!!

Depth of Field

• Maximum (f/16, f/22, f/32)
• longer shutter speeds= more detail.
• Tripod= necessary for these types of shots.

Light

• just after sunrise, just before sunset.
• low sun, shapes/ textures emphasized.
• Grand Landscape photos direct lighting is good.

Film

• 100 ISO film.
• Details, slow film needed to capture all of them.

Lenses

• Wide Angle lenses typically used.
• Telephoto lenses used to concentrate on details.
• Macro lenses= for close up images, like detail or abstract shots.

Filters

• yellow filter brings out clouds.
• Red filter= dark black skies, stark white clouds.
• red with a polarizer = max contrast.

Support

• slow film and smaller f-stops for slower shutter speeds.
• tripod is needed to get non-shaky shots.
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The types of Landscape Photography:

The Grand Landscape, Abstract, Detail

Landscape

• "big view" for pictures of outdoors.
• Wide open expanses.
• Large expanse of the scene
• Wide-angle lens: used to capture more of it.
•   Sky is an important part

Abstract

• composed of lines, shapes, values and textures.
• (Tree bark patterns.)
• Get really close to your subject
• Photograph a small part of it.
• When using a macro lens on small subjects you’ll need as much depth
• field as possible.
• Use a slow shutter speed and a tripod for sharper images.

Details

• Rocks,Vibrant Flowers,Simple trees.
• Before sunset, after sunrise.
• Close down the f-stop
• choose a faster shutter speed for a shorter exposure.
• There was a tradition: photographers would look at paintings to gain idea
• for their work.

Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)

• Capture the American West.
• Learned photography in 1854.
• Opened his own gallery in 1858 in San Francisco.
• Began photographing Yosemite Valley in 1861.

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

• inspired by Yosemite.
• Known images in the Valley.
• Changed the way the public views natural world.

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)

• learned photography in 1860 from Matthew Brady.
• Photographed the Civil War.
• Principle photographer for Gardner's famous book,
• the Photographic Sketchbook of War.
• Lead photographer on the survery on western lands past the Mississippi
• River.
• Died of tuberculosis at 42.
• Inspired other photographers of the 1960s-70s with his documentary style.

Composition= most important aspect of landscape photography.

Viewpoin=t most important aspect of Composition.

Move Camera in all directions to encourage different views.

Achieve balance between unity and variety.

Variety in everything (texture, size, color, value, appearance, subject)

Value- important in black and white shots.

more dramatic = large range of tones.

"contemplative"=less differnt tones.


Visuals/Examples:
Grand Lanscape

Detail





Abstract Landscape