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Landscape Photography
A landscape is a section or portion of scenery as seen from a single viewpoint. Scenery is the subject of a landscape image. Typically, people and animals are not shown in a landscape, unless they are relatively small in the image and have been included in the composition to show scale. Some photographers argue that the sea coast, the city and man-made structures in general should not be included in a landscape, and images that do contain them are more accurately called seascapes or cityscape's. From a purist perspective, they are probably correct, since a landscape is a picture of the land and its aggregate natural features. However, if natural scenery dominates an image, it can probably be accurately termed a landscape, even though there may be a farmhouse in the distance, a city skyline on the horizon or a road or path in the foreground. The term Urban Landscape describes photographs of the city taken in the manner of a landscape, using buildings and other man-made features as graphical elements of composition that are treated in the same way the photographer would treat mountains.
STYLES OF LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Three styles of landscape photography are recognized representational, impressionistic and abstract. The representational style is also known as the straight or straight descriptive style.
REPRESENTATIONAL
This style results in pictures that show scenery at its most natural and realistic, with no visual manipulation or artifice. It is a straightforward style what you see is what you get. Successful images in the representational style are not simple snapshots. Although the photographer adds no props or other components to a scene and does not try to bend reality, great attention is paid to composition and detail. Light timing and the weather are critical elements.
IMPRESSIONISTIC
The impressionistic landscape photographer employs photographic techniques that result in images that have vague or elusive qualities. They are less tangible and more unreal, while still retaining their values that make them landscape pictures. The viewer is given the impression of a landscape rather than the clear reality of one.
ABSTRACT
This style abstract could also probably be referred to as the graphic style, since the components of scenery are treated by the photographer as graphic elements, arranged for their compositional values. Natural elements may be rendered as unrecognizable or almost so. Shape and form take priority. Elements may be just a position for comparison or contrast, isolated by extreme close up reduced to silhouettes by severe underexposure and so on. Design is more important than recognizable representation.
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