Landscape Photography

• 3 main types

1. the grand landscape
2. details
3. abstract

• elements and principles exist naturally in landscape photos
• rule of thirds can be critical
• colors can show mood
• 100 ISO can give you the most detail
• tripods help

Ansel Adams

• 1902-1984
• best known for black ans whites
• shot to conserve nature
• shot with long exposures
• first person to ever take a presidential portrait

John Sexton

• worked with Ansel Adams
• likes to use shape as awell as patterns and repetition

Timmothy O'Sullivan

• most well known for documenting civil war
• initial photographs of grand canyon, etc
• New Topicgraphics

• use the macro lens
• filters
• yellow brings out clouds
• maximum depth of field

1. maximize depth of field(f-stop)
2. use a tripod
3. look for focal point
4. think foregrounds
5. consider the sky
6. lines
7. capture movement
8. work with the weather
9. work with the golden hours
10. think about horizons
11. change your point of view