ACC: 3.4: Types of Landscape Photography

Digital Photography

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3.4

Agenda

• Reminders & Review

• LESSON: Landscape Photography

• LESSON: Fine Art Photography
• LESSON: Abstract Photography

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Important Dates:

• 5/12 - 3.5: PROJECT: Photo Story

• 5/13 - 3.6: Unit 3 Test
• 5/14 - 4.1: Unit 4 Starts
• 5/14 - 4.1: PROJECT: Portfolio
• 5/19 - 4.2: PROJECT: Small Business - Social Media
• 5/21 - 4.4: Unit 4 Test
• 5/22 - 5.1: Unit 5 Starts
• 5/29 - 5.4: Unit 5 Test
• 6/6 - END of 4th Quarter!

Reminders

• The home page & resource page has guided notes, study guides, vocab list, & quizizz reviews!!
• Remember to use YOUR own ORIGINAL photos!
• You should be taking new photos for each project!
• Candid Photo (extra credit points)
• Abstract Photo (extra credit points)
• Pet Photo (extra credit points)

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RECAP 3.3: Photos in Ads

• Photography in advertising helps appeal to consumers in using 3 modes of presuasion:
• Emotion: It should create a strong emotional response.
• Credibility: It should show that the brand is trustworthy and reliable.
• Logic: It should present facts and statistics that make sense.
• FOUR tips for creating effective product photograph:
• Emphasize the product with a wide depth of field
• Use appropriate models
• Add exciting themes & colors
• Tell a relatable story

RECAP of 3.2: Product Photography

• THREE benefits of Product Photography:
• Acts as a tool to potentially increase sales
• Promotes the brand to customers
• Reaches a larger customer base

• 360 degree product photography involves taking photos from multiple angles that have the same background.

Product Photography

Product Photography Assignment

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Examples

How to take Product Photography Images

• abstract landscape
• cityscapes
• impressionistic landscape
• landscape photography
• natural landscapes
• representational landscapes
• seascapes
• skyscapes

Learners can...

• Identify major types of landscape photography
• Categorize landscape photographs
• Identify tips and techniques used in landscape photography

Presentation title

Fine Art Photography

01.

Landscape, Portrait, & Abstract photography can ALL be Fine Art Photography. If you would hang it on your wall or it makes you think, it's Fine Art Photography.

Landscape & Portrait Photography can be Abstract Photography if the photo is either taken or edited so that the subject is unrealistic.

02.

Unit 3

Landscape Photography 3.4

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was a renowned American photographer and environmentalist. He actively pursued environmental conservationism through his works showcasing the wilderness and national parks.

Ansel Adams

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."

-Ansel Adams

Landscape Photography

Landscape photography attempts to capture the expansiveness and openness of nature. Landscape photographers use a variety of techniques to capture their photographs. There are FIVE subjects that landscape photographers frequently capture in their photographs:

• Natural landscapes
• Seascapes
• Cityscapes

• Skyscapes
• Abstract

Subjects of Landscape Photography

Natural Landscapes

Cityscapes

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Skyscapes

Seascapes

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Three types of landscapes

Landscape photographs can be categorized depending on whether they are realistic or manipulated representations of a landscape. The THREE major types are:

• Representational
• Impressionistic
• Abstract

Representational Landscape Photographs

Representational landscape photographs are realistic images that aim to capture the beauty of landscapes in their natural form. When composing representational landscape photographs, photo enhancement and post-production editing are kept to a minimum.

Natural Colors

Desaturation

AKA: Black & White

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GOLDEN HOUR

SCALE

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a major art movement developed in France at the end of the nineteenth century. This movement was led by a group of artists that painted a subject's essence with painterly brushstrokes rather than a realistic view. The impressionists' ideas influenced photographers, who began editing pictures during post-production after a camera's shutter had been released.

Impressionistic Landscapes

Impressionistic landscape photographs are manipulated to have often pastel colors and tones, enhanced to be more dramatic. This style sometimes incorporates adding a blur to the photo to create the dreamy look of impressionist art of the 19th century.

Abstract Landscape Photographs

Abstract landscape photographs are often made by manipulating landscape images in post-production to create new visuals. Photographers use shapes and colors from real landscapes to craft these abstractions. In contrast to impressionistic landscapes, which retain recognizable subjects, abstract landscapes often render their subjects unrecognizable.

ABSTRACT Landscapes

Emphasis of color, texture, & movement

COLOR

When composing abstract landscapes, photographers start with the original landscape image. Then they may layer or enhance colors over the original landscape to create emotion or highlight certain features of the landscape.

Fantastic Elements

Adding fantastic elements or multiple exposures can help create abstract landscape photographs, pushing the boundaries of reality. By layering or combining exposures atop each other or by adding otherworldly elements, photographers are able to create new worlds.

Symmetry

Symmetry is a balance that can be divided in half, and photographers use it to create abstract landscapes. The Golden Gate Bridge is a recognizable landmark in the U.S., and the photographer enhanced its reflection with symmetry, creating an original abstract photograph.

DEsign Elements

Artists often use design elements symbolically, to represent feelings or ideas that cannot be seen.

Aerial Landscapes

Aerial landscape photography captures stunning landscape photographs from a bird's-eye view, such as the one shown on the right.With the advent of drones, small unpiloted aircraft, and efficient compact cameras, aerial photography has become easily accessible to the masses.

Astral Landscapes

Astral landscape photography involves taking pictures of starry night skies. These pictures require a wide-angle lens and extremely long exposure times. Photographers keep the camera shutter open for hours in order to capture the faint light given off by distant stars.

Tips for Capturing Landscape Photographs

Long Exposure

Tripod

A tripod is needed when taking photos with a long exposure (slow shutter speed) so that the camera doesn't move, which would produce a blurred image.

Long exposures are used to create a sense of motion and smoothness.

Match the type of portrait with the appropriate photograph.

1. Abstract Landscape
2. City Landscape
3. Natural Landscape
4. Sea Landscape

Abstract Landscapes

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Natural Landscapes

Cityscapes

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Skyscapes

Seascapes

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GOLDEN HOUR

Landscapes are almost always best-captured in the 30 minutes before and after sunrise and sunset, known as the golden hour. During the golden hour, you can frequently spot ardent photographers trying to get their best shots of landscapes.The photograph on the right was captured at the golden hour at sunrise.

Sea Landscapes

Sea landscapes, commonly called seascapes, refer to scenes of the ocean or coastlines.

Abstract Landscapes

Abstract landscape photographs have unrealistic elements in the composition to communicate a feeling or message.

Sky Landscapes

Sky landscapes, commonly called skyscapes, capture broad sections of the sky from a single viewpoint. They sometimes include part of the horizon, which helps capture a sense of the sky’s expanse.

Video Tutorials

Layflat

Phone Camera Trick

ASSIGNMENT EXAMPLES:

• TEACHER EXAMPLE
• STUDENT EXAMPLES

Natural Landscapes

Natural landscapes are captured in natural, terrestrial surroundings, without including any other subjects in the frame.

City Landscapes

City landscapes, commonly called cityscapes, are usually taken of iconic skylines, like the one shown on the right.

Sea Landscapes

Sea landscapes, commonly called seascapes, refer to scenes of the ocean or coastlines.

Desaturation

One exception to the rule that natural colors should be maintained in representational landscape photographs is desaturation, the technique by which all colors from a photograph are removed. Desaturation results in shades of black and white.Be careful when you use the color-desaturation technique with representational landscape photographs. Some landscapes will look truly amazing in black and white, while others will lose their charm if colors are lost.

Natural Colors

Representational landscape photographs are true representations of a landscape. When taking representational landscape photographs, you should work to capture the inherent beauty of a place while keeping photo enhancements to a minimum, as shown in the example on the right.

SCALE

Photographers convey scale, a sense of a subject's size or distance, by providing a photograph's viewers with an easily understood reference. Placing a single person in a wide-angle landscape frame is a good way to show scale. Have the subject wear something that will stand out in whatever landscape you choose to capture.

Sky Landscapes

Sky landscapes, commonly called skyscapes, capture broad sections of the sky from a single viewpoint. They sometimes include part of the horizon, which helps capture a sense of the sky’s expanse.

Natural Landscapes

Natural landscapes are captured in natural, terrestrial surroundings, without including any other subjects in the frame.

City Landscapes

City landscapes, commonly called cityscapes, are usually taken of iconic skylines, like the one shown on the right.