Urban photography, as its name indicates, focuses on the urban landscape with its buildings, industrial structures and city life.
Mountain landscape with the small river, sun and colors 2. Here you rely on your unique point of view in composing and framing your shot, going the distance to capture the right light, and document the beauty inherent in the vast and varied natural landscape, be it lakes, rivers,parks, forests or a mountain range. Natural landscape photography aims to capture true representations of natural scenes. Cityscapes, for instance, are views of urban areas, seascapes capture the ocean, and waterscapes feature freshwater such as the work of Monet on the Seine.” 1. While there is a traditional viewpoint of landscapes, over the years artists have turned to other settings.
Yet, landscapes can depict any scenery and feature subjects within them such as buildings, animals, and people. We tend to think of this genre as majestic mountain scenes, gently rolling hills, and still water garden ponds. “Derived from the Dutch word landschap, landscape paintings capture the natural world around us. In this article we explore some of the styles and techniques available to us today.
Through the implementation of these styles, photographers are able to creatively manipulate the mood and feel of their images, to elicit a specific thought or emotion in the viewer. Advancement in technology, along with the adaptation of some of the styles used by painters to photography, provided photographers with a large arsenal of creative tools both in and off camera. Since its inception two centuries ago, photography as a visual art form has come a long way.
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