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Creative Landscapes: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
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.
240 pages, Paperback
First published April 20, 2011
About the author
Harold Davis
166 books14 followersHarold Davis is widely recognized as a leading contemporary photographer and artist. He is also the author of more than 30 books, including Creating HDR Photos: The Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Photography from Amphoto/Random House and Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis which is published by Focal Press, and has been called "one of the most beautiful books ever created."
Harold Davis believes that advances in the technology and craft of digital photography have created an entirely new art form. Trained as a classical photographer and painter, his photographic images are made using special HDR (High Dynamic Range) capture techniques that extend the range of visual information beyond what the eye can normally see.
Davis creates and processes his images using wide-gamut and alternative digital methods that he has invented. His techniques combine the craft of photography with the skills of a painter.
Photographic adventures and assignments have taken him across the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountains in Alaska. He has photographed the World Trade Towers, hanging out of a small plane, followed in the footsteps of Seneca Ray Stoddard, a 19th-century photographer of the Adirondacks, and created human interest photo stories about the residents of Love Canal, an environmental disaster area.
Harold is well-known for his night photography and experimental ultra-long exposure techniques, use of vibrant, saturated colors in landscape compositions, and beautiful creative floral imagery.
He makes his over-sized original prints on unusual substrates such as pearlized metallic and washi rice papers. Davis states, "I believe that nothing like my prints has ever been seen before. They simply could not have been created until recently. I've been able to innovate in a domain where many techniques and crafts have come together for the first time. My prints are made meticulously, and have a 200-year archival rating for ink and paper if they are handled properly.
Harold Davis believes that advances in the technology and craft of digital photography have created an entirely new art form. Trained as a classical photographer and painter, his photographic images are made using special HDR (High Dynamic Range) capture techniques that extend the range of visual information beyond what the eye can normally see.
Davis creates and processes his images using wide-gamut and alternative digital methods that he has invented. His techniques combine the craft of photography with the skills of a painter.
Photographic adventures and assignments have taken him across the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountains in Alaska. He has photographed the World Trade Towers, hanging out of a small plane, followed in the footsteps of Seneca Ray Stoddard, a 19th-century photographer of the Adirondacks, and created human interest photo stories about the residents of Love Canal, an environmental disaster area.
Harold is well-known for his night photography and experimental ultra-long exposure techniques, use of vibrant, saturated colors in landscape compositions, and beautiful creative floral imagery.
He makes his over-sized original prints on unusual substrates such as pearlized metallic and washi rice papers. Davis states, "I believe that nothing like my prints has ever been seen before. They simply could not have been created until recently. I've been able to innovate in a domain where many techniques and crafts have come together for the first time. My prints are made meticulously, and have a 200-year archival rating for ink and paper if they are handled properly.
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July 7, 2012
Early on I was pretty dubious about this book. Not least because of the section titled The Tao of Landscape. Which came across a bit new-agey for my particular tastes. But as I read on I realized the value of the book.
While there are practical techniques covered here, that isn't really the heart of the book. It's the photos and the suggestions for different possible ways to approach landscape photography that make this book worth reading.
Davis takes a very broad view of landscape photography, which I like. It's not just rolling hills and waterfalls. There are cityscapes and more in here.
He's also very open to what digital photography brings to the able. Sure do your best to capture the image in camera, but then enhance it any way you can afterwards too!
This is a book to dip in and out of. Davis offers ideas for how to view the landscape around you and where to look for images, but most of all he gives examples of what you can do. And those examples are wonderful.
This isn't a textbook, it's inspiration.
While there are practical techniques covered here, that isn't really the heart of the book. It's the photos and the suggestions for different possible ways to approach landscape photography that make this book worth reading.
Davis takes a very broad view of landscape photography, which I like. It's not just rolling hills and waterfalls. There are cityscapes and more in here.
He's also very open to what digital photography brings to the able. Sure do your best to capture the image in camera, but then enhance it any way you can afterwards too!
This is a book to dip in and out of. Davis offers ideas for how to view the landscape around you and where to look for images, but most of all he gives examples of what you can do. And those examples are wonderful.
This isn't a textbook, it's inspiration.
February 19, 2012
This book has lots of great photos, and it's not limited to landscapes. The text isn't the best part of the book: it's half musings on landscape photography and half technical, and the technical stuff isn't particularly deep or insightful. But the hundreds of photos are the heart of this book. Each one is captioned with technical details and in most cases the short story about how the author envisioned and executed the shot. These are well worth perusing.
July 25, 2016
On a second, complete, read this is more of a here is a pretty picture I took with the settings I used than a how to book. As all suggestions are very vague.
8/19/12 An interesting read. Lots of good ideas; although nothing new and ground shattering. Beautiful photos that include the settings for that photo.
8/19/12 An interesting read. Lots of good ideas; although nothing new and ground shattering. Beautiful photos that include the settings for that photo.
May 21, 2014
This book was really helpful to me since I'm currently involved in a rather large landscape imaging project. I particularly liked the step-by-step instructions since I'm a Photoshop user and lately everything seems to be geared toward Lightroom. Read it. You won't be sorry.
April 26, 2012
I just loved this book for all the beauty and techniques behind photographs. a must read for photography enthusiasts
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