This document discusses landscape photography and analyzes two landscape images. It describes landscape photography as depicting large outdoor areas like oceans, forests, and mountains. It notes that landscape photography includes the photographic techniques of rule of thirds and leading lines. The document then analyzes the first image in detail, noting its framing, lighting, narrative, and meaning in conveying a sense of journey along a path to an unknown destination. It similarly analyzes the second image of a lone tree, discussing its framing, narrative, and meaning in conveying loneliness.

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AO1 – Understanding Photography – Landscape
This page is going to be based on landscape photography. Landscape
photography involves pictures of large outdoor areas such as oceans, wilderness,
forests and mountains. Landscape photography includes 2 of the 3 elements of
photography, rule of thirds and leading lines. The photographer I’ll be looking at
is Charlie Waite, as he is well known for his landscape photography.
Photographic Category:
The photographic category for this image is landscape.
Purpose:
The purpose of taking the photo is mainly to sell the image. Photographers, such
as Charlie Waite, take photos and advertise them on websites for people to buy.
The images could also be used for backgrounds of advertisement etc. but the
photographer would sell them to whoever wanted to use them.
Image Analysis:
Framing – The subject for this image would be the vanishing point, the
destination of where the leading line is taking us. The subject is placed in the
centre of the screen so it catches your attention straight away.
Lighting – The lighting for the image is clearly coming from the left hand side,
making it look like the sun is rising or going down. You can see this as the
shadow from the trees is casting over the pavement from the left.

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Narrative – The picture is showing a path way doesn’t show the final destination,
which will make people curious as to where it is going. This image suggests that
it could be a path of life/your life and the final destination is still unknown.
Miss-en-scene – The setting of the image is a well lit up area and has a lot of
bright colours. This could suggest that the image is intended to be a bright,
happy image.
Meaning: This image makes the viewer think of a journey, a path leading to some
unknown destination. This is because the leading lines make you follow the path
but the trees block the destination out, making the viewer think about what the
destination could be but the bright colours and the sunshine coming through
suggest that it is a happy image and therefore the destination could be something
to do with happiness.
AO1 – Understanding Photography – Landscape
Photographic Category: The photographic category for this image is also
landscape.
Purpose: The purpose of the image is also to sell it; this is the same with a
majority of photographers. The image could be used for advertisement purposes

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so the photographer would sell the image to anyone who wants to use it. The
image could also have been taken to suggest loneliness and sadness; this is
because the tree is all alone on the horizon.
Image Analysis:
Framing – The subject for this image would be the lonely tree, which is
positioned in the middle of the screen a bit higher up. It is positioned along the
horizon so that it catches the attention of the viewer straight away.
Narrative – The field in the image has leading lines in it leading up to the tree on
its own. This picture suggest loneliness as the tree is lonely and on its own.
Miss-en-scene – The setting of the image is in the middle of an empty field. This
shows loneliness, as the field is empty except for one tree in the centre.
Meaning – The leading lines in the image automatically forces the viewers
attention to the tree in the centre. The meaning of this image is to show
loneliness and emptiness. You know this as the tree is lonely in the middle of the
field and on its own to show the loneliness and the field is empty to suggest the
emptiness in the image.