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Book Description

Capture the beauty of the world around you with this professional advice

Landscape photography inspires millions of photographers. If you're one of them, you'll find new insight into landscape photography in this book by professional photographer Harold Davis, as well as tips, tricks, and technical advice to help you improve the quality of your photos. You'll learn to use lighting and composition creatively, choose and use appropriate equipment, look at your subject matter in a new way, and even when to break the rules in order to capture the best image of all. Illustrated with the author's own spectacular landscape photos.

  • Landscape photography intrigues and inspires photographers, but there is more to getting great landscape photos than many photographers expect

  • Professional photographer Harold Davis teaches tricks and techniques that will enhance your skills

  • Explains how to approach the subject creatively, choose and use appropriate equipment, and refine photographic technique to create spectacular landscape shots

  • Looks at how lighting, texture, and composition affect landscape imagery

  • Lavishly illustrated with the author's own photos

Landscapes have long been a popular photographic subject; this book helps you advance your skills as a landscape photographer.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Credits
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. The Tao of Landscape
    1. Why Landscape Photography
    2. Landscape in the Modern World
    3. Grand Landscapes
    4. Intimate Landscapes
    5. Imaginary Landscapes
    6. Abstractions and Patterns
    7. The Landscape in Black & White
    8. The Lonely Road
  9. Tools and Techniques
    1. Choosing a Camera
    2. Lenses
    3. Using a Tripod
    4. Exposure and Landscapes
    5. Aperture and Depth-of-Field
    6. ISO
    7. Capturing Motion
    8. Composition and Landscape
    9. Landscapes and Lighting
    10. Working with Weather
    11. Planning Tools
  10. One World, Many Landscapes
    1. Seasons and a Sense of Place
    2. Earth and Sky
    3. Mountains
    4. Deserts
    5. Seascapes
    6. People and Landscapes
    7. Reflections
    8. The City as Landscape
    9. The Night Landscape
  11. Landscapes and Post-Processing
    1. Understanding Digital Workflow
    2. Protecting Digital Assets in the Field
    3. The RAW Advantage
    4. Multi-RAW Processing
    5. Understanding HDR
    6. Hand-HDR
    7. Monochromatic Conversions
    8. Understanding LAB Color
    9. LAB Color and Tonal Adjustments
    10. Selective Sharpening in LAB
  12. Notes and Resources
    1. Further Reading
    2. Learning Photoshop
    3. Software
  13. Glossary
  14. Index
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