- genre visual arts, the main task of which is to display the surrounding nature both in its original form and in one way or another changed by man. Since photography is one of the fine arts, landscape photography fully complies with this definition. The main visual center of landscape photography is nature in all its manifestations.
Of course, the landscape, as a genre, appeared long before the invention of photography - in painting. And honed for centuries artistic means scenery images formed series necessary conditions mandatory for this genre of photography. Linear perspective , tonal (air) perspective, optical perspective,frame composition , light space and color - these are the main characteristics of landscape photography, capable of not only very accurately conveying the state of the surrounding nature at a certain point in time, but also highlighting semantic center image without the use of additional manipulative techniques. And despite the fact that in landscape photography the presence of people or animals in the frame is allowed, they are clearly assigned the role of staffing - an element of the landscape that exists to enliven the image and plays a secondary role in this image.
Landscape photography is essentially documentary photography about nature. According to the type of space depicted, landscape photography can be terrestrial, water, astronomical and meteorological. Terrestrial landscape photography depicts landscape, topography, and vegetation and is both rural and urban.
water landscape (seascape, marina) is an image of the water (sea) element.
astronomical landscape photography depicts the heavens (stars, constellations, sun, moon),
and meteorological - weather and precipitation (fog, rain, clouds, tornado, etc.).
According to the way of depicting space, landscape photography can be chamber and panoramic. Camera photography in this case does not imply a narrow circle of spectators, but expresses purely technical specification- a small, narrow viewing angle of the depicted space.
panoramic landscape photography is the absolute opposite - it is a photograph, the viewing angle of which can often exceed 180 degrees.
According to the degree of perception by the viewer, the landscape can be, by analogy with music, minor or major. Tragic or solemn. Dull or cheerful. In solving this problem, the photographer comes to the rescue color theory, namely one of its sections - color psychology. Knowing what colors and how they affect the mind of the viewer, the photographer can adjust composition color balance landscape to achieve a specific result. At the same time, in a landscape, not always cold shades can create an atmosphere of hostility, and warm ones can create friendliness. Small colored vegetation against the background of black thunderclouds looks defenseless, and the picture as a whole causes a feeling of anxiety, while the cold Elbrus causes awe and delight with its grandeur.
Of course, several of the listed natural spaces and states can easily overlap in one image at the same time, but in this case it will be important for a landscape photographer to decide what exactly in this image is semantic center, and select this center using visual means — perspectives, compositions, Sveta, colors.
If there is no such center, then landscape photography is purely aesthetic, narrative-specific in nature and is used for decorative, scientific or journalistic purposes. It is to the category of aesthetic perception that landscape photography belongs. plein air- a true transfer in the image of nature of the colorful richness of color changes in natural conditions under the influence of sunlight and atmosphere.
If there is still a semantic center in landscape photography, then such a landscape will be charged with emotional-dramatic (or epic) energy and will acquire features artistic landscape photography.
Along with mandatory conditions creating landscape photography, there are a number of conditions that are specific in nature - dynamism , angle , detail. Considering that photography is a static and silent form of fine art, it is in a photographic landscape that it is most difficult to convey certain atmospheric phenomena with great accuracy. How to show a strong wind in a desert photo? How can mountain giants be depicted more majestically? It is in these cases that the landscape photographer is saved by knowledge about the dynamics of the frame, the point of shooting and the angle.
Widespread in our time travel landscape photography. Not being essentially a separate genre, travel landscape photography has become very popular due to both the availability of photographic equipment and the opportunity to visit the most remote corners of our planet.
The main feature of landscape photography is its accessibility. It does not require any scenery and staging tricks, it does not depend on the mood of the photo model and the preferences of the customer. It depends on the environment and weather conditions. And in this sense landscape photography unique. Whether it is a park or an alley within the city, or maybe a mountain range or a quiet expanse of a lake outside it - wherever you are, on vacation or on a business trip, in your country or abroad, it is everywhere - nature is amazing a natural space capable of changing form, content and color every minute, from day to day, all year round, for thousands of years... And even if a landscape photograph taken by you does not contain any semantic core, it will always be aesthetic, which means it will always remind you of the essence and forms of beauty.
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Often, when looking at colorful photographs from different parts of the world, it is hard to believe that these landscapes really exist. And therefore, I really want to visit them all and see for myself that they are really so beautiful.
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Wave, Arizona, USA
Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia
The Uyuni Salt Flats is a dry salt lake in the south of the Altiplano desert plain, Bolivia. The inside is covered with a layer table salt 2-8 meters thick. During the rainy season, the salt marsh is covered with a thin layer of water and turns into the world's largest mirror surface.
Fly Geyser, Nevada, USA
Fly is a man-made geyser located in northwestern Nevada. It appeared thanks to the intervention of people: in 1916, a well was drilled in these places for a well, but a geothermal pocket was accidentally punched. In 1964, boiling water began to penetrate the surface, creating an unusual landscape from minerals dissolving in water.
Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan
Hitachi Seaside National Park in eastern Japan is an amazing example landscape design. It is known for its colorful change of seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter have their own flower beds. By the end of spring, millions of American forget-me-nots bloom in the park.
Red Beach, Panjin, China
The beach near the city of Panjin is world famous for its unusual red color. The fact is that the banks of the Liaohe River are strewn with seaweed. From April to May, they are of the usual green color, and only by September, dying, gradually become bright red.
Lake in Glacier National Park, USA
The lake of divine beauty is located in the Rocky Mountains in the US state of Montana, on the border with Canada.
Giant's Road, Northern Ireland
The Giant's Road is about 40,000 interconnected basalt columns that appeared after an ancient volcanic eruption. The tops of the columns start at the foot of the cliff and gradually disappear under the surface of the sea. The tallest of the columns is about 12 meters high.
Rainbow Mountains, China
100 million years ago, there was a huge pool on the site of the mountains, which gradually dried up due to high temperatures. The sediments that remained at the bottom of the pool, when in contact with air, turned into interesting red and copper colors.
Maldives
The Republic of Maldives has more than a thousand paradise islands scattered in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. Each of the islands can be called a small miracle that has preserved the original freshness and purity of nature.
Badab-e-Surt, Iran
Badab-e-Surt is a natural wonder located in northern Iran. This place consists of stepped terraces made of a special breed - travertine. The orange color of the terrace was obtained due to the large amount of iron oxide.
Giant Buddha, China
The Maitreya Buddha statue in Leshan, China is one of the tallest Buddha statues on Earth. Its height is 71 meters, head height is almost 15 meters, shoulder span is almost 30 meters, finger length is 8 meters, toe length is 1.6 meters, nose length is 5.5 meters.
Lake Natron, Tanzania
Natron is a salty and alkaline lake located in northern Tanzania. Its depth does not exceed 3 meters. Due to the microorganisms that live in the lake, the crust of salt that covers it sometimes turns red and pink.
Antelope Canyon, Arizona, USA
The canyon was so named due to the reddish-red walls, reminiscent of the skin of an antelope. It is a gigantic gap in the sandy rocks that arose under the action of water and wind.
Rice fields, Indonesia
Rice terraces in Bali, Indonesia, amaze with their picturesqueness. It would seem that they are simple rice sprouts, but how artistically planted. No wonder the rice fields and terraces on this island attract artists and gather tourists.
Cappadocia, Turkey
Darvaza, Turkmenistan
We continue to acquaint our readers with the best contemporary photographers. Today we will talk about the genre of landscape. So, read our review, share it with your friends and get inspired by admiring the works of landscape masters!
Dmitry Arkhipov
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A native Muscovite Dmitry Arkhipov has been fond of photography since childhood. A physicist by education, Dmitry served in the army, worked at the Institute for Space Research under the Buran program, created his own well-known IT company, while continuing to improve in the field of landscape photography.
The results of his travels to 108 countries of the world were five solo exhibitions, where Dmitry's works were seen by more than a million people. Now Dmitry Arkhipov is a titled photographer, a member of the Union of Photographers of Russia, winner and laureate of national and international photo contests.
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Denis Budkov is a native of Kamchatka, since 1995 he has been traveling and photographing his native land. Love for nature and the desire to show all its beauty became an incentive to learn the basics of photography and improve skills in practice. Denis's main passion is volcanoes, which are so rich in the nature of Kamchatka. Volcanic eruptions and peaceful Kamchatka landscapes captured by him have already received awards from the prestigious photo contests Best of Russia 2009, 2013, Wildlife of Russia 2011, 2013, Golden Turtle, Wildlife Photographer of the Year - 2011. Denis says that photography for him is a way of life, which is completely satisfactory. The main thing is to wait for the right moment to make the same frame.
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Mikhail Vershinin became interested in photography as a child; he had to give up visiting the photo studio in favor of another hobby - rock climbing and mountaineering, but even on sports routes he took a camera with him. Craving for travel in wild places and passion for filming eventually led Mikhail Vershinin to landscape photography. He explains his choice of this particular genre not only by a craving for nature, but also by a special mood, the ability to convey feelings and emotions with the help of a captured moment. The works of Mikhail Vershinin have repeatedly become finalists and winners of Russian and international competitions, including "National Geographic Russia - 2004" and FIAP Trierenberg Super Circuit - 2011 in the "Night Image" nomination.
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Oleg Gaponyuk, a MIPT graduate, lives and works in Moscow and has an unusual hobby - panoramic photography. For the sake of a good picture, he can easily go to the other side of the earth, while skiing, windsurfing and diving along the way. Despite the fact that his sports hobbies are associated with mountains, seas and oceans, in the field of photography Oleg became interested in creating spherical panoramas in the air. He is actively involved in the AirPano.ru project, within which more than 1,500 bird's-eye panoramas have already been made in the most interesting cities and corners of the world. In terms of the geography of shooting, the number of aerial panoramas and the artistic value of the material, this project is one of the world leaders in this type of panoramic photography.
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MIPT graduate Daniil Korzhonov prefers to call himself an amateur photographer, because he simply does what he likes. Photography allowed him to combine his passion for painting and love of travel. As a landscape photographer, he visits the most Beautiful places the globe and "draws" on the film what he sees. Combining photography with travel allows Daniil to lead an active lifestyle and express his thoughts and feelings through beautiful and original shots taken both in the wild and on the streets of cities. He advises all novice photographers to shoot as much and as often as possible in order to better understand the surrounding beauty of the world.
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Vladimir Medvedev - founder of the Club of Photographers wildlife, tireless traveler, professional photographer, winner of international competitions, including the 2012 BBC Wildlife Photography Competition for the Eric Hosking Portfolio Award. Cooperation with wildlife reserves around the world allows Vladimir to take unique shots of the virgin world and its inhabitants. According to Vladimir Medvedev, photography is both an art, a means of understanding the world, and a means of influencing the world. Starting photography is easy - you just need to buy a camera and learn from the best.
Yuri Pustovoi
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Yuriy Pustovoy is a graduate of VGIK, a cinematographer at the Odessa Film Studio with ten years of experience and a distinguished travel photographer. His work was recognized by the jury and visitors international exhibitions and photo contests, in the treasury of Yuri's awards Gold medal International Federation Photo Arts FIAP Global Arctic Awards 2012. Yuri Pustovoy is not only a traveler and photographer, but also an organizer of photo tours for real amateur photographers and beginners. Landscapes from various parts of the world fall into the scopes of cameras of Yuri and his team. During the tour, Yuri shares his photographic experience, helps during filming with advice and deed, teaches how to process photographs in graphic editors.
Sergey Semenov
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Sergei Semyonov became interested in photography in 2003, when for the first time in his life he fell into his hands digital camera. Since then, he not only devoted all his free time to this hobby, but also turned photography into a profession, exchanging a career as an economist for the fate of a travel photographer. In pursuit of the most beautiful views of the earth, Sergey visits the national parks of North America, the mountains of Patagonia, the ice lagoons of Iceland, the Brazilian jungle and hot deserts. He shoots his favorite landscapes from a bird's eye view and is an active participant in the AirPano.ru project. In his first panorama, Sergei showed the Kremlin as birds see it.
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The Belarusian photographer is known as a master of the landscape genre. Like many of his colleagues, he believes that beauty is everywhere, and the photographer's skill lies in showing it to the viewer. He is characterized by exactingness to himself and the quality of his work. You will be surprised, but sometimes Vlad comes to the same place several times to achieve the right lighting and shoot a great shot. And yet, Vlad has been reading our magazine for a long time and regularly shares his photos with our entire audience.
Alexey Suloev
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Aleksey Suloev got his first camera at the age of seven and quickly got used to taking pictures of everything around him, especially since his passion for tourism allowed him to find himself in the most unusual, undeveloped places in the Caucasus, the Pamirs and the Tien Shan. Gradually, tourist trips turned into real photo trips. In pursuit of unusual shots, Alexey has already visited more than a hundred countries, the geography of his trips includes the most inaccessible and untouched places on our planet from the North to the South Pole. Alexey shoots because he cannot describe in words the beauty and diversity of the earth. He generously shares everything he sees with his audience so that everyone can find creative inspiration in the inexhaustibility of nature.
Friday:). I don't want to talk about floods, violence, wars and drug addicts. Let's take a better look at the amazing beautiful pictures nature.
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1. Tourists walking near the fortress of Peter and Paul in Russia are reflected in a puddle on April 7, 2006.
2. Tourists visit the famous old windmills in the village of Campo de Criptana in the region of Castile-La Mancha in central Spain on April 16, 2006. La Mancha windmills are mentioned in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes,
3. fly over the city of Bristol, during the Bristol International Festival balloons, in the southwest of England on August 8, 2006. The annual event lasts four days and includes concerts, celebrations and a massive balloon launch.
4. A Bedouin rides a camel in the desert near a tourist resort in Sharm el-Sheikh on August 22, 2006.
Red leaves in a vineyard on a sunny fall day near Ueberlingen on Lake Constance on October 26, 2006.
6. A young man launches a model aircraft on an autumn evening in Dornbirn, about 20 km (13 miles) from Lake Constance on November 14, 2006.
7. In autumn, at sunset, a young man with a model aircraft. Dornbirn 20 km (13 miles) near Lake Constance on November 14, 2006.
9. A girl walks through dense fog in Leicester, central England, December 21, 2006. The fog has left passengers at many of the country's airports fearful that they won't be able to join their families abroad on Christmas Eve.
11. Tourists are carried along the frozen river Turne to Jukkasjärvi, above the Arctic Circle, in northern Sweden on December 24, 2006.
12. A man looks at the sea near the beach houses, while a cold front covered Muizenberg in Cape Town, August 12, 2003.
14. Cattle wander through the fog and snow on the North Downs near Maidstone, Kent, in the south-east of England, on January 25, 2007.
15. A couple at Lake Michigan at 6 degrees Fahrenheit (-14 degrees Celsius) at dawn in Chicago, February 2, 2007.
16. Runners are not afraid bad weather, they continue their run in St. James's Park, in London, February 8, 2007.
17. Lanterns along the street during the celebration in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, February 21, 2007.
18. St. Paul's Cathedral is seen from the restaurant window at the Tate Modern gallery in London on March 15, 2007.
19. People look at the waters of the Neva, which carry ice floes upstream to the Gulf of Finland, in St. Petersburg on March 22, 2007. Temperatures, in Russia's second largest city, reached 12 degrees Celsius above zero (54 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.
20. A rowboat and clouds reflected on Loch Lynn in Fort William, western Scotland on May 12, 2007.
21. A couple stands on the Volga embankment in Samara, about 1,000 km (620 miles) southeast of Moscow on May 18, 2007.
22. Icebergs reflected in calm waters at the mouth of the Jakobshavn fjord near Ilulissat. Photo taken May 15, 2007.
23. Father and daughter look at a huge lantern during the exhibition of lanterns, which was attended by more than 500 participants. The exhibition was held in a park in Guangzhou, the capital of China's southern province of Guangdong, on September 5, 2003. Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month lunar calendar, falls on September 11 this year.
24. Skating after the grand opening of the ice rink at Somerset House, London, November 26, 2003
25. Tourists enjoy the sunset at Kovalam Beach, in the southern Indian state of Kerala on October 1, 2005. Kerala is one of the most popular tourist destinations.
26. George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River and connects New York (right) with New Jersey, seen early in the morning through the fog. Photo taken from Fort Lee, New Jersey on January 30, 2006.
27. A pair of swans reflected in a lake in the southern Bavarian town of Kochel, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Munich on a warm autumn day, October 14, 2005.
29. Dark clouds and a lone bird over the Millennium Wheel in London, July 8, 2004. A sharp cold snap and worsening weather led to problems with transport and communications in England and Wales.
30. Indonesian villagers ride bicycles across a bamboo bridge at dawn outside the city of Yogyakarta in Central Java on July 24, 2004. The bridge was built by residents of nearby communities.
32. An Australian holds a candle on Kuta Beach during a vigil on the Indonesian island of Bali October 12, 2005. Bali on Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, mostly tourists, including 88 Australians.
33. Frost-covered trees among vineyards in countryside Alsace near Strasbourg, France on January 11, 2006.
34. People on Primrose Hill watch the sun set over London on November 16, 2003. Many Londoners have come out to enjoy the cool but sunny weather ahead of how daylight hours will shorten with the onset of winter.
35. A man enjoys a sunny spring day near the southern German city of Lindau, on May 8, 2005.
36. A man walks through a snowy park in Tervuren near Brussels on February 27, 2004. slowed down traffic in the territory and caused flight delays or cancellations at international airports.
38. The Cathedral of the Resurrection-on-Blood is reflected in the melting ice of the Griboyedov Canal in St. Petersburg, March 10, 2004. The cathedral was built on the site of the assassination of Alexander II, who was killed by a bomb thrown by a student in March 1881.
39. The lights of the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan are reflected in the East River after sunset on November 17, 2004.
40. Sunset on Uluru (Ayers Rock), about 350 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of the Australian city of Alice Springs on April 19, 2004. 40 years ago, Uluru, which belongs to Australia's indigenous people, the Anangu people, was visited by about 1,000 tourists annually. Since then, about 400,000 visitors come here every year.
42. Tourists inspect the sand dunes in the Mauritanian desert near the city of Nouakchott on July 29, 2005. Western countries will support the military junta that initiated the bloodless coup in Mauritania if it actually ensures democratic elections.
43. A woman walks with an umbrella along the coastline of Lanikai Beach at dawn in Kailua, Hawaii, on May 28, 2004. Hanauma Bay, about 20 miles south of Lanikai Beach, topped the annual list of the best beaches in Hawaii by Steven Lizerman, a Florida-based environmentalist. The beaches of Hawaii have won the championship over the beaches of Florida, although there are a large number of them in the ranking.
44. The British Parliament building during heavy rain in London January 17, 2005.
45. A Sri Lankan man holds an umbrella as he drives past the bay in the city of Kalmunai on the east coast of Sri Lanka on January 19, 2005.
46. Giant waves at the Cape Town breakwater in Bay Harbor, August 27, 2005. The height of the waves reached, according to estimates, nine meters. Photo taken August 27, 2005.