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    Angle of View in Photography: The Intimate Landscape

    February 23rd, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY ANDREA GHILARDELLI

    When you are outdoors with your camera and looking for new subjects to photograph, try considering the intimate landscape. This is how some landscape photographers call landscape pictures where the horizon is not present. This is unfamiliar as a landscape photograph, because usually we include the horizon, be it the skyline of a mountain, a city or the sea. It does not have to be necessarily like that, however.

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    Mind’s Eye Caught on Film

    February 5th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY ROBERT HUNT

    My all time favorite quote is from the 1st century Roman philosopher, Publilius Syrus: “The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.” I read that quote some years ago when I was building another website for one of my other passions — photography. I think the reason it stuck with me is because, as an avid photographer, every time I go out on a shoot, that quote runs through my mind as I search for the perfect landscape image. I am after the image of what I envision in my mind, not what I see with my eyes.

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    Night Photography: Photographing the Moon in the Landscape

    January 26th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID ROSE

    Photographers have been trying to utilize the light of the moon in their landscape photography ever since the photographic process was invented. It was not until World War II, however, that technology had improved enough to make night photography possible.

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    What are Architectural Landscape Photos?

    December 14th, 2006 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY ROY BARKER

    There aren’t many but some of us take an interest in architectural landscape photos. With a view to giving some insight on this subject, I wrote this article to give a basic understanding and supply some facts about its origins. Some of us become interested in architectural landscape photos later in life; it doesn’t matter when you take an interest but when you do you’ll be hooked.

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    What’s All the Fuss About City Landscape Photos?

    December 5th, 2006 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY ROY BARKER

    This article attempts to open up some of the reasons city landscape photography is becoming popular and why it is that much different from normal photography. City landscape photography is indeed special but is it all that different after all? Let’s go into this bit by bit and find out.

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    How Do You Identify Landscape Photo Art?

    November 30th, 2006 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY ROY BARKER

    There are many different versions or styles of landscape photography, not the least landscape photo art. Hopefully, I have been able to explain some of its characteristics in this topical article and it will leave you a little wiser. I have compiled other articles on a similar bend but none of them really cover this area of landscape photo art that well.

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    Understanding Landscape Photography

    November 20th, 2006 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY JENNIFER CLARKSON
    What is Landscape Photography?

    Landscape photography is, technically speaking, photography of wide vistas. Typically we think of landscape photography as purely mother nature, but it can also include urban landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, and more, depending on your definition.

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