Landscape - Image Bank

This landscape is very well composed; the cloud fits nicely in the frame and stops at about the halfway mark. It also shows the horizon as a neat line across the image, which fits nicely into the bottom third of the image. The image has made good use of the rule of thirds composition rule, as the tree has been placed on the line of the grid so that your eyes are drawn to it.

This Landscape contains leading lines in the form of a road that leads you to the horizon. Unlike the previous image, the horizon is not a neat line and the image is not very neatly composed. This image contain some muted shades of green, unlike the previous image which contained all very saturated colours.

This is a Landscape by Ansel Adams. It was taken on a film camera using sepia film, therefore it contains all muted colours and contains mainly light tones. This has been taken from an eye level perspective, therefore it shows us the size of the mountains and what it's like to be at the place it was taken.

This image is by Rut Blees Luxemburg. Although this is a landscape, it is very different in shooting style to the others. It has been shot from a worms eye view and is at a slightly canted angle. It has also been taken using a long exposure, therefore, there is some motion blur from the cars that were on the road.

This landscape has been taken from an eye level perspective, therefore we don not get to see the scene from a high angle, or from a low angle so we can see the sky and the horizon. The rule of thirds could be applied to this picture, as the middle of the bridge fits roughly into the middle of the left vertical line of the grid, so your attention is drawn to the bridge.

Landscape - Rut Blees Luxemburg Research

Rut Blees Luxemburg is is a German photographer who is based in London. In addition to taking street photography, she is a tutor at the Royal College of Art. Her technique is to take pictures of Urban Environments at night. Her photos have lots of different tones, mainly a large contrast between the dark tones of the night and the bright tones of street lights and neon lights which are all around London. Many of her her photographs make use of puddles as a medium for showing light in contrast to the shadows around the streets. Here are some examples of her work.

This image uses lots of muted colours, other than the part in the puddle, which shows a saturated blue. There is some tonal contrast, with some dark tones on the pavement due to the time of the day, and some light tones shown on the bright tube station sign in the puddle. This image has a very simple composition, with only a small puddle with a reflection being featured on a plain London floor. The image creates a sense of negative space, in which the floor surrounding the puddle becomes negative. This does not use a very wide angle lens to capture lots in the frame like most landscapes, however, and it doesn't display any rural or urban scenery.

This photo is similar to the one previously featured, with negative space created by the puddle being in the middle of the pavement. However, this one contains a larger range in tones. Inside the reflection itself there are lots of very dark tones, with the only light tones being produced being in the tube station sign, similar to the image previously shown. There are also some very dark tones shown on the pavement behind the puddle. This image has been composed differently to the previous one, having been taken at a canted angle, creating a more interesting composition than in the previous image. There are more saturated colours in this image, as there is a larger area of a sign shown in this image, however, there are still lots of muted colours in the pavement. This has not been composed like most landscapes, as it doesn't show scenery and the horizon, but is aimed at the floor and doesn't use a very wide angle lens to capture lots in the frame.

This one has been taken from a bird's eye view, so we get a view from above of a reflection in a puddle. This one contains some lines, unlike the previous images, and two of the lines in the paving slab act as leading lines that draw your attention to the puddle, where the reflection is. There is a very large tonal range in this, with some bright and warm tones inside the reflection, and a contrast between dark tones where the pavement has been wet and light tones where it hasn't. The pavement is, again, made up of very dull and muted colours, however, there is a very saturated shade of orange in the reflection in the puddle. Because of the lines in the tiles, a square can be seen, which the puddle is neatly framed into.

Landscape - Ansel Adams research

Ansel Adams is an American Landscape photographer born in 1902 in San Francisco. He was a fan of nature, as he lived near the Yosemite National Park and was inspired by it. Many of his Landscapes were taken there.
He was a very technical photographer, as he used the zoning system and pre visualisation.
The zoning system is a system that Ansel Adams formulated that helped to calculate the correct camera settings for optimal exposure.
He also pre-visualised his images, meaning he pictured how he wanted them to be, so that he could select his camera settings and composition based upon that.
With Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston, Adams formed the Group F/64, which consisted of seven San Francisco based photographers. They all shared photo characteristics of carefully framed photographs and sharp focus. Here are some examples of Ansel's work.

This image was taken at Yosemite national Park in San Fran Cisco. This work is very typical for Adams, as it uses a Landscape orientation and captures a very wide angle. This image incorporates the golden triangle composition rule, as it features a prominent foreground, mid ground and background. This was likely achieved on purpose through the use of Pre visualisation, which is something Ansel Adams pioneered. This image also has a very wide depth of field, as only the background is slightly out focus and the rest of the image is sharply in focus. It was therefore shot using a high F stop value such as F22, which he likely chose carefully using the Zoning system for calculating camera settings that he pioneered.

I do not know for sure where this image was taken, though it was likely taken in Yosemite national park, as large amount of Ansel Adams' work was taken there. This image features several formal elements. Firstly, this image has a very wide tonal range; there are some very light tones displayed on the grass and on parts of the road, as well as some very dark tones shown on the stone structure and on the hills in the background. It also makes use of leading lines, which take the form of the path, which leads you the stone structure featured in the background of the image. Like most of Adams' work, the image was taken using landscape orientation and captures a very wide angle shot.                              

This is an image that is very different in some ways to the other two. It has much less to see in it; it is simply the horizon taken from a moody, flooded field.

Landscape - Definition

Landscape photography is photography taken in landscape orientation, usually depicting vast areas of the planet, whether they are natural or urban. The are usually taken using a wide angle lens, therefore they show a large amount of the horizon.