I want to buy a book on landscape photography. What is the best book in your opinion? Who are the world class landscape photographers?
I'm not clear on your request. Do you want instructional books, or examples? Scott Kelby has some great instructional books. For the coffee table viewer, I have books by Ansel Adams, and one of my favorites,
Chasing Light: An Exploration of the American Landscape, by the late Frank Lee Ruggles.
Tjohn
Loc: Inverness, FL formerly Arivaca, AZ
One book recommendation (they getn expensive):
Landscape as Photograph Paperback – July 1, 1987
by Estelle Jussim (Author), Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock (Author)
Plenty of examples but heavy on the B&W. No shortage of great landscape photographers.
Better yet, the internet: youtube, rumbl, photography magazines, "Learn Photography", "Photography Life", etc.
Also, brush up on composition and all the technical aspects of camera operation. Then go out and figure out what, exactly, you have in mind to photograph. Then do it over and over again.
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
These are great links, Thanks.
Google Freeman Patterson. He has numerous photo books and if I could have books from only one source on photography, it would be him.
I think you have to decide how you like to see landscapes. Cany from Moab has very strong foregrounds. Others care more about is in the middle. I think good composition lets me like the photo even it is weak in other areas that I like.
jim quist wrote:
I want to buy a book on landscape photography. What is the best book in your opinion? Who are the world class landscape photographers?
You could start with the A.Adams work and book series. After Adams, I have been very impressed/influenced by the work and books by David Muench. You could also study Peter Lik's work - maybe the most monetarily successful photographer of our/all time ?
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