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Forum: Photographic Technique
09-08-2019, 04:32 PM
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You've gotten a lot of excellent technical advice on landscape shooting. Now let me throw you a slight curve ball.
Many or most of our ideas about landscape photography and how it should look are based on European landscape painters such as JMW Turner and John Constable; in the U.S. their influence extended to the 19th century American landscape painters -- primarily artists in the Hudson River School, such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. The Hudson River painters established the well-composed lush, Romantic look that, a couple generations later, would be easily visible in the work of American photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston and can be seen today in most online landscape photo forums.
So my suggestion is to spend some time looking at those earlier paintings and try to figure out what elements are worth copying, from color to composition to subject matter. Then try to copy what works! If you don't have a good art museum nearby, check out the art section of a library or a decent used-book store. Online images work, too, but with painting there's nothing quite like the real thing.
Have fun!
Bob
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