The document provides an overview of landscape photography, including definitions, popular subjects, camera styles, photographic processes, and types of landscape photography such as urban, industrial, social, nature, and macro. It discusses techniques like using large format cameras and filters and notes that while landscapes often depict nature without people, urban landscapes may include structures and implied or actual human subjects. The document encourages the reader to research these topics as part of a photography assignment and notes an instructor is available to provide models and information.

1. Landscape Photography A Sense of Place – Photography Research information, methods and ideas in the context of a drawing study in photography. Credits: 6 Ansel Adams

2. How does the Excellence criteria differ from the Achievement criteria? What does the title suggest might be required in this task? Achievement Standard 2.1 What are some of the key words included in the Assessment Criteria?

3. Landscape photography is a genre intended to show different spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Many landscape photographers show little or no human activity in their photos, striving to attain pure, unsullied landscapes that are devoid of human influence, using instead subjects such as strongly defined landforms, weather, and ambient light. Landscape has become a very broad term, encompassing urban, industrial, macro and nature photography. Defining landscape photography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_photography 21/02/10

4. Waterfalls and mountains are especially popular in classic landscape photography, often calling for Large Format cameras and neutral density or polarizing filters. Most places and things can be photographed as a landscape, a kitchen, a lamp, a wall, or even the human body can be turned into a rolling vista by a skilled photographer. Landscapes are often created with such tools as a pinhole camera, or a large format camera and tripod, usually with a wide angle lens. Many serious photographers use medium or large format systems to record as much detail as possible, although the vast majority of landscapes published today are from digital SLR’s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_photography 21/02/10

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9. Firstly, what is urban landscape? The images in some way describe a town or city

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11. They represent an attempt to understand our experience of the place. Winograd By researching and understanding what you are photographing, may give you added insight into a new way to photograph it.

12. They Concentrate on structures rather than on people But the presence of people is sometimes implied… Morrison

13. The photograph may deal in either details… Brassai

14. … or a broader view Weston Which other landscape category does this photograph fit in to?

15. Look for Contrasts When shooting in Urban and industrial landscapes, one of the things that is great about cities is the diversity that you can find there – both in terms of the people as well as visual diversity in the sites you’ll see there. Look for and capture the contrasts between organic and inorganic forms, colours, geometry and light. Garry Winograd

16. Urban landscape photographs often include people, but they are more interested in the existing structures of the town or city … including people in the photograph indicate how they interact with the city and structures. Lewis Hine

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19. With this knowledge you should be able to gain a better understanding of the remaining landscape types through your research. I am always here to provide you with the appropriate artist models and information, so don’t be a stranger! Be sure to make the most of the art library. Friedlander