![]() A more literary word for this is verdant: All around her were verdant meadows. An area that is especially green, in a way that is attractive, may also be described as lush: lush green valleys. To start with the most basic description, an area of land that is mainly covered with grass or trees is often described as green: There are so few green spaces in the city. Have you ever wanted to describe an area of the countryside but found you didn’t have the right words? If so, we’ll fix that this week with a look at words and phrases that we use to describe different landscapes. To make things easy, I’m including a photo example of each kind of landscape photography sub-genre I have in my portfolio.By Kate Woodford john finney photography/Moment/Getty ![]() They can use any of the styles listed above. ![]() In addition to the above, there are several sub-genres in the landscape photography header. You may recognize that an abstract landscape photo is a landscape photo or you may not. Abstract landscape photography uses a landscape but completely loses any representational elements in favor of abstracting to a mood. You might easily confuse abstract landscape photography with abstract photography if you don’t know what you’re looking at. It is still somewhat representational of the scene but takes some liberties with the captured scene in order to create the mood the photographer wants to convey with the photo. You may find colors altered to be brighter or more muted for example. Impressionistic landscape photography seeks to present the viewer with a particular mood when viewing the photo. Please remember that what the camera captures is different than what the human eye sees. However, the photographer probably enhanced it to better meet his/her vision of the scene rather than what the camera records. Representational landscape photography strives to present the viewer with an accurate depiction of the scene in front of the camera. Then, we’ll progress to impressionistic and finally abstract landscape photography. We’ll start off with representational landscape photography. Since our question is what is considered landscape photography, we should also highlight several of the sub-genres falling under the landscape photography heading. However, landscape photography often overlaps the activity of wildlife photography and the two terms are used somewhat interchangeably both wildlife and landscapes may be elements of the same picture or body of work. Even the presence of man-made structures (buildings, roads and bridges, etc.) or art (such as sculpture) may be considered “landscape” if presented in artistic settings or appearing (or photographed) in artistic style.įurther, landscape photography is typically of relatively stationary subjects-arguably a form of “still life.” This tends to simplify the task, as opposed to photography of kinetic or live subjects. Photography of artificial scenery, such as farm fields, orchards, gardens and architecture, may be considered “landscape” photography as well. ![]() Landscape photography commonly involves daylight photography of natural features of land, sky and waters, at a distance-though some landscapes may involve subjects in a scenic setting nearby, even close-up, and sometimes at night. The dictionary is a good place to start when looking for a straight definition of a word or term. So, what exactly is considered landscape photography? Today, we demystify it for you.įirstly, let’s start with the dictionary definition of landscape photography. However, “landscape photography” is a rather broad term. We often also consider it a form of fine art photography. It’s a staple of a sub-genre in the over-arching category of photography. ![]()
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