Landscape Photography

ACS DIstance Education

Duration: 100 Hours

Course program
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Duration:	100 Hours
Price:	Contact us
Type:	Courses
Method:	Online
Prepares for:	DISCOVER HOW TO CREATE POWERFUL LANDSCAPE IMAGES Capturing a dramatic landscape takes a lot of technique and skill. Almost everyone at some point has taken a photograph and been surprised when the picture doesn't look nearly as dramatic as the landscape did in reality. This course will explain how to capture what you experience in the moment and transport that same 'feel' into your images. Aims Discuss the nature and scope of photographing landscapes. Develop a firm understanding of how you can work at improving your capabilities with respect to taking landscape photographs. Develop a framework, upon which you will base your work in future lessons. Increase the variety of effects which you are able to create when photographing landscapes. Develop your capacity to take better photographs of natural areas. Develop your capacity to take better photographs of buildings and streetscapes Develop your capacity to take better photographs of water landscapes. Develop your flexibility of being able to capture landscape images in different photographic styles. Develop a folio of quality landscape photographs.
Geared towards:	Anyone
Requirements:	None

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Course program

Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

Introduction
Different Approaches ... realistic, impressionistic, abstract
Understanding the landscape (components, change)
Lighting (Shooting into the sun, time of day, weather)
Using Filters (Polarising, ultra violet, red, orange, yellow)
Snapshots
Equipment
Camera settings (Shutter speed, aperture,)
Introducing Digital Technology
CCD’s
Resources
The Main Principles
Open view scenes
Closed view scenes
Rule of thirds
Unity
Balance
Proportion
Harmony
Contrast
Rhythm
Line
Form
Mass
Space
Texture
Colour
Patterns
Tone
Other compositional components
Camera Techniques
Movement
Depth of field
Angles
Framing the landscape
Creating Different Effects
Landscape effects
Sunrise and Sunset
Weather effects
Haze
Mist
Rain and Rainbows
Storms
Exposures for landscapes
Sun
Clouds
Creating intense colour
Creating different effects
Scenic Photography
Digital filter effects (Coloured pencil, fresco, sponge, blur, etc)
Hue/Saturation
Digital toning
Photographing Natural Areas
Locations (Arid desert, Arctic ice flows, volcanic peaks, tropical rainforests, etc)
Grasslands
Forest
Mountains
Rural areas
Tropical Rainforest
Desert
Wetlands
Snow photography
Coastal plotography
Photographing plants
Compositional elements
Lenses
Shooting in bad weather
Extreme temperature
Extreme Cold
Extreme heat and humidity
Photographing Streetscapes
Modern buildings
Historic buildings
Viewpoints and perspective
Equipment
Photograhing architecture at night
Mirrors and reflections
Exposure readings
Converging lines
Tips for architectural photos
Tips for street photography
Photographing Water
Water characteristics
Reflections
Exposures
Creating effects with water
Water in motion
Freezing movement
Achieving a soft artistic effect
Droplets
Using filters with water
No tripod
Seascapes
Underwater photography
Exposures
Developing Your Photographic Style
Styles & work of famous photographers (Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Thomas Joshua Cooper, John Davies , David Doubilet, Carleton E Watkins, etc)
Developing a photo style
Hints on style
Photographing detail
Atmosphere
Trip or Photographer Themes
Know your equipment
Computer Techniques (Levels, Channel extraction, Channel mixer, Duotones, Hand tinting, Panoramas)
Major Project
Uses for Photography
Using your work to get a job
Photojournalism
Freelancing
Publishing
Form of photo
Creating a website
Creating works of art
Framing
Creating a Folio
(In this lesson, you create either a photo essay or a folio as a major project)

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

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