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Why is depth of field important in landscape photography- Depth of Field (DOF) determines the closest and farthest objects in an image, both of which are in focus. The entire image between these objects also maintains sharp focus.
What f stop is recommended- So in landscape photography, you'll typically want to use a higher f stop, or narrow aperture, to get more of your scene in focus. Generally, you'll want to shoot in the f/8 to f/11 range, topping out at around f/16.
What additional equipment is required to help capture landscapes-
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Camera Body. I'm not about to poo-poo the use of smartphones and point-and-shoot cameras for landscapes. ...
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Lenses. From a practical standpoint, the lenses you use for landscape photography are the single most important piece of equipment you have in your kit. ...
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Filters. ...
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Tripod. ...
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Wrapping It Up
Why is Ansel Adams’ zone system important in capturing tone/tonal range- The Zone System was developed by Ansel Adams with Fred Archer way back in 1940. It is a system to map the various tonal regions or luminescence of objects in any given scene to enable the photographer to reach the optimal exposure during the capture of the image, and the developing and printing of the negative.
Landscape.
Derived from The Dutch word landschap meaning "region, tract of land”.
The first recorded use of landscape was in 1598, as a painters' term when Dutch artists were pioneering the landscape genre.
It was used in the artistic sense by the English to describe "a picture depicting scenery on land."
The Zone System
A way of controlling your prints’ tonal range. The process begins by previsualizing your subject as having up to nine tone zones between but not including, pure black and pure white. The tonal range of final prints is adjusted by light readings at the shooting stage, and development at the processing stage.
Ansel Adams talked a lot about pre-visualization. In his day the term meant knowing in advance how the image he was taking would look on photographic paper when he was finished in the darkroom. He considered all the variables in the field (what filter to use, exposing for the shadows or the highlights) and the variables in the darkroom (the length of time for development of the negative, whether a water bath would be used, and the effect of the chosen print media.) It all sounded so complicated with so many variables. But from the beginning, Ansel would look at a scene, imagine a photographic portrayal of it, and know exactly what steps he would take to achieve that end.
Ruut Blees Luxemburg
Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German photographer. Her technique is to take photographs at night, mostly exploring the urban landscape. She is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art.
Luxemburg studied photography at London College of Communication and gained her last formal education at the University of Westminster. She employs long exposures to allows her to use the light emanating from the street only, for instance from office blocks or street lights in her photos. Luxemburg created a series of images for the London Underground in 2007. Many of her photographs and prints deal with nocturnal themes.
As the images have been taken at night its quite aesthetic pleasing to the eye with the light being quite golden in the background and reflective. I feel quite calm because street photography gives you a sense of reality and realism and it shows the difference in the view of things as there are many homeless people so as we see it as a photo there is that idea behind it. In the first photo I like the reflection of the sign in the puddle because its give a different style to it and makes it look different in comparison from the angle it has been taken at. In the second photo the angle really portrays the photo differently but because its up close and a bit blurred it adds definition and you can see the footprints clearly in the water/puddle, makes it look rustic. In the third photo it shows a basketball court which shows how randomly some objects/area are because for all we know this could be a rough area of town and this is where the kids/teenagers go to escape from reality, shows a bigger image then whats shown. In these photos I like the contrast between the pavement and the puddle with the light shining onto it and it's hard to notice but their is a board at the back of the sign for what looks like bus times.