There are five main types of landscape photography: nature photography focuses on landscapes, wildlife, and natural textures; urban landscape photography concentrates on city structures rather than people, often in black and white; representational photography shows scenery in a realistic way without manipulation; impressionistic photography uses techniques that create vague qualities while retaining landscape elements; and abstract landscape photography treats scenery components as graphic elements arranged for composition, potentially rendering natural elements as unrecognizable.

1. Landscape photography – research and analysis
Types of landscape photography
Nature, this is defined as ‘a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to
displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural
scenes and textures.’
Urban, this is ‘a way to describe a town or city’ it concentrates on structures rather than people
and it can represent an attempt to understand our experience of the city. (urban landscape
photography can often be in black a white)
Representational, is a style of photography, which results in pictures that show scenery in its
most natural and realistic way, with no visual manipulation or artifice. It is a straightforward
style – that follows the ‘what you see is what you get’ expression.
Impressionistic, is a photographic techniques that result in images that have vague or elusive
qualities. They are 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

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Abstract, the components of scenery are treated by the photographer as graphic elements,
arranged for their compositional values. Natural elements may be rendered as
unrecognizable