Landscape Photography

STUDY ONLINE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

DISCOVER HOW TO CREATE POWERFUL LANDSCAPE IMAGES

Capturing a dramatic landscape takes a lot of technique and skill.  Almost everyone at some point has taken a photograph and been surprised when the picture doesn't look nearly as dramatic as the landscape did in reality. This course will explain how to capture what you experience in the moment and transport that same 'feel' into your images.

WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
You will learn a wide variety of things, through a combination of reading, interacting with tutors, undertaking research and practical tasks, and watching videos. Here are just some of the things you will be doing:

• Basics of photography.
• Starting a resource file.
• Principles of landscape photography.
• Selecting the right equipment and materials.
• Using filters.
• Dealing with a range of problems found in natural areas, including uneven light, shade, glare, etc.
• Photographing buildings and streetscapes.
• The characteristics of water and its affect on photography.
• Selecting and composing a photograph to create the predetermined affect.
• Create a folio of landscape photographs.

Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction
   • Different Approaches ... realistic, impressionistic, abstract
   • Understanding the landscape (components, change)
   • Lighting (Shooting into the sun, time of day, weather)
   • Using Filters (Polarising, ultra violet, red, orange, yellow)
   • Snapshots
   • Equipment
   • Camera settings (Shutter speed, aperture,)
   • Introducing Digital Technology
   • CCD’s
   • Resources
2. The Main Principles
   • Open view scenes
   • Closed view scenes
   • Rule of thirds
   • Unity
   • Balance
   • Proportion
   • Harmony
   • Contrast
   • Rhythm
   • Line
   • Form
   • Mass
   • Space
   • Texture
   • Colour
   • Patterns
   • Tone
   • Other compositional components
   • Camera Techniques
   • Movement
   • Depth of field
   • Angles
   • Framing the landscape
3. Creating Different Effects
   • Landscape effects
   • Sunrise and Sunset
   • Weather effects
   • Haze
   • Mist
   • Rain and Rainbows
   • Storms
   • Exposures for landscapes
   • Sun
   • Clouds
   • Creating intense colour
   • Creating different effects
   • Scenic Photography
   • Digital filter effects (Coloured pencil, fresco, sponge, blur, etc)
   • Hue/Saturation
   • Digital toning
4. Photographing Natural Areas
   • Locations (Arid desert, Arctic ice flows, volcanic peaks, tropical rainforests, etc)
   • Grasslands
   • Forest
   • Mountains
   • Rural areas
   • Tropical Rainforest
   • Desert
   • Wetlands
   • Snow photography
   • Coastal plotography
   • Photographing plants
   • Compositional elements
   • Lenses
   • Shooting in bad weather
   • Extreme temperature
   • Extreme Cold
   • Extreme heat and humidity
5. Photographing Streetscapes
   • Modern buildings
   • Historic buildings
   • Viewpoints and perspective
   • Equipment
   • Photograhing architecture at night
   • Mirrors and reflections
   • Exposure readings
   • Converging lines
   • Tips for architectural photos
   • Tips for street photography
6. Photographing Water
   • Water characteristics
   • Reflections
   • Exposures
   • Creating effects with water
   • Water in motion
   • Freezing movement
   • Achieving a soft artistic effect
   • Droplets
   • Using filters with water
   • No tripod
   • Seascapes
   • Underwater photography
   • Exposures
7. Developing Your Photographic Style
   • Styles & work of famous photographers (Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Thomas Joshua Cooper, John Davies , David Doubilet, Carleton E Watkins, etc)
   • Developing a photo style
   • Hints on style
   • Photographing detail
   • Atmosphere
   • Trip or Photographer Themes
   • Know your equipment
   • Computer Techniques (Levels, Channel extraction, Channel mixer, Duotones, Hand tinting, Panoramas)
8. Major Project
   • Uses for Photography
   • Using your work to get a job
   • Photojournalism
   • Freelancing
   • Publishing
   • Form of photo
   • Creating a website
   • Creating works of art
   • Framing
   • Creating a Folio
   • (In this lesson, you create either a photo essay or a folio as a major project)

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

• Discuss the nature and scope of photographing landscapes.
• Develop a firm understanding of how you can work at improving your capabilities with respect to taking landscape photographs.
• Develop a framework, upon which you will base your work in future lessons.
• Increase the variety of effects which you are able to create when photographing landscapes.
• Develop your capacity to take better photographs of natural areas.
• Develop your capacity to take better photographs of buildings and streetscapes
• Develop your capacity to take better photographs of water landscapes.
• Develop your flexibility of being able to capture landscape images in different photographic styles.
• Develop a folio of quality landscape photographs.

What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?

This is an individual module course.  The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study. 

If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it. 

If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you.  If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course. 

If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments. 

There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.

Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.

You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.

You can find further information on other courses by clicking on the “Courses” link above.

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Who are our tutors?

Our tutors are all highly experienced and professional, knowledgeable in their field of study.  We have staff from around the world, enabling us to gain a wide variety of perspectives.  We have a school in the UK and in Australia. If you would like to have a look at our tutors, then click on the “About Us” in the boxes above and choose “The Staff” option.

Sample Course Notes

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What learning method should I choose?

We offer three learning methods – e-learning, correspondence and online. If you are not sure which is the right choose for you, then click on the “Learning” box above, then “Learning Methods.”

How Long will it take to complete the course?

This obviously varies from student to student. Some students will have more time for study than others. Some students may work quicker than others, so it is an individual thing.  We estimate that most students will take, for example, 4 – 6 months to complete a 100 hour individual module, but we allow up to 12 months for you to complete it.

Longer courses will obviously take longer.  You can find more information on the length of time required and so on the “Enrolment” box, then selecting “Terms and Conditions of Enrolment.”

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