Landscape Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

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  • chapter 1: equipment introDuction viii

  • Understanding Your Gear to Take Better Photographs

  • Poring Over the Picture

  • Poring Over the Picture

  • Cameras

  • Choosing Gear

  • The Tripod

  • What’s in My Bag

  • chapter 2: seeing as Your camera sees

  • Thinking about Light and Shadow

  • Poring Over the Picture

  • from Our Eyes How the Camera Sees Differently

  • Not Just the Subject Focusing on the Photograph,

  • chapter 3: light

  • Learning to See the Light for Better Landscape Photos

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • See the Light

  • Directional Light

  • The Color of Light

  • Light and Exposure

  • chapter 4: composition

  • Structuring Your Image to Communicate about a Landscape

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • Getting Out of the Middle

  • Paying Attention to Relationships

  • Valuing Your Point of View

  • chapter 5: perspective, space, anD Depth oF FielD vi lanDscape photographY: From snapshots to great shots

  • Gaining Control by Changing Lenses, Positions, and Apertures

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • Perspective

  • Depth of Field

  • Going for a Deep Depth of Field

  • chapter 6: skY

  • Working to Bring Out the Best in the Sky

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • Worth the Effort Deciding Whether the Sky Is

  • Using Sky Effectively in a Composition

  • Found in the Sky Tackling Exposure Challenges

  • Bringing Out the Clouds

  • chapter 7: connecting with a lanDscape

  • Finding Depth in a Location

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • Understanding What’s Important

  • Working the Landscape

  • Going Beyond the Common Landscape

  • Finding Out About Locations

  • chapter 8: Black-anD-white images

  • Black-and-White Landscapes Examining the Rich Tradition and Today’s Potential of

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • The Early History of Landscape Photography

  • Black-and-White Photography Is More Than the Absence of Color

  • Composing in Black-and-White Mode

  • Variations in Light

  • Looking at Color for Black-and-White Shooting

  • Translating Color to Shades of Gray in the Computer

  • chapter 9: hDr contents vii

  • Capturing More of Your Landscape

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • HDR Basics

  • HDR for Natural Effects

  • Wild Effects and HDR

  • on the computer chapter 10: traDitional Darkroom work

  • Seeing How Ansel Adams’s Ideas Still Resonate in the Digital Age

  • Poring Over the Picture

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  • Refine Your Photos with Traditional Darkroom Techniques

  • Basic Photo Needs: A Workflow

  • Case Studies

  • inDex

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