What is Landscape Photography?

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Landscape Photography is recognised as three main types:

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Representational

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This is traditional lansdcape photography.  An image captured outlining the land and sometimes the horizon.  This will be natural and a true picture of what the photographer sees.  Important photography skills will be used when making the photograph, using composition, framing and lighting. 

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Impressionistic

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This style is more of a vague, mysterious, painting effect to the photograph.  The photograph can almost look like a painting. Techniques such as zoom burst, and tilt shift would assist in creating the effect in the photograph below.

 

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Abstract

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This type of photography can be more specific to something within the landscape, such as a branch, stone, flower photographed in a less traditional way.  Macro style, whereby the viewer might not recognise straight away what the subject is.

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