Landscape Fotography

Definition of Landscape Photography are : 

Landscape photography is intended to show different spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Photographs typically capture the presence of nature and are often free of man-made obstructions. Landscape photographers often attempt to document the space as well as convey an appreciation of the scenery.

Landscape Photography for me is a mixture of Art and exercises, why exercise? because sometime u would need climb some mountain or some spots that needed u to do hiking a bit, (Imagine what we would do to take just 1 or 2 pictures) sometimes the result of the picture taken is breathtaking.

Many landscape photographs show little or no human activity and are created in the pursuit of a pure, unsullied depiction of nature devoid of human influence, instead featuring subjects such as strongly defined landforms, weather, and ambient light. As with most forms of art, the definition of a landscape photograph is broad, and now includes urban settings, industrial areas, and nature photography, Waterfalls coastlines, seascapes and mountains are especially popular in classic landscape photography. Though most photographs are inspired by traditional landscape painting, the technique can be applied to other subjects; most places and things can be photographed as a landscape, a kitchen, a lamp, a wall, or even the human body. Contemporary Landscape photography has made a notable shift from being about nature and the environment towards being more about the direct relationship between man and nature and where they intersect.

What U need for Landscapers......

In my opinion when u pursue a landscape photography I prefer to take equipment as light as possible. The more equipment u carry the longer time u have to decide which equipment you have to shoot. And also u don’t need a very expensive lens or equipment to take landscape photo.

1.     Camera (Of Course)

U need this to take picture, any brand will do it can be Nikon, Canon, Pentax or Sony. As long it has sensor of DX of Fullframe in it, you are ready to go. Don’t worry about brands all has good sensors and it is just a matter of taste. Me myself use a D90 Nikon and D5000 Nikon

Camera, Lens, Flash

2.     Camera Bag.

Try buying a camera bag with rain coat for your equipment protection, for landscapers it’s hard to forecast the weather you are in to, Siling bag or Bag pack will do, any brand as long has tick protection for your equipment. 

Backpack Type

3.     Lens.

For budget photographer you can always use your std kit lens, Don’t be fool by their name “KIT LENS” all the camera manufacture tends to produce good picture for branding purpose I guess. These lense are as sharp as 10 million rupiah lens. But if you have more budget u could get wide angel lens like the 11-16mm Sigma or the Nikon 11-24mm that would be a plus . anything starts with 10 or 11 is a wide lense.

Wide Nikon Lens

4.     Tripod.

Video Tripod

Low Angel Position

Ball Head Tripod

These 3 legged friends is the must have equipment a must have to take it with you on landscape journey,  landscape Photography needs a sharp picture of standing point till the Far end of the obkect. Using hand only to support your camera won't be sufficient. Before u rushed to your nearest store to get a Tripod u have to understand there is 2 types of Tripod. One if For panning Tripod which mostly is used for video shoot out and the other one is using ball head. these tripod will cost u around Rp350,000 to if you have the cash Rp.1,500,000. Some of the Photographer prefer the Panning type but for me, Ball Head Tripod are the best, not only they have high flexibility of angeling your camera but also they are good in low height photography.

             U could see in the picture reff. above that a ball head tripod has more flexibility for angel shots.

5.     Shutter Release cable.

If you are born rich u could buy the digital ones, which u can set when and how to release the shutter speed, which u can adjust the aperture and the shutter speed on the remote which will cause you around Rp.300,000 till Rp500,000 rupiah, or if you really don’t want to burn your pocket hole u could buy the analog type which has just the shutter release button. Any model will do as long it’s comfortable.

Shutter cable

Any Brand will do, if you have the budget u could buy the Nikon or canon brand, if you want cheap but usable, alot of chinese brands will do.

   6. FIlter

Graduate Square Filter

One of the essential equipment that I tend to bring when shooting a landscape Photo. Camera lens filters still have many uses in digital photography, and should be an important part of any photographer's camera bag. These can include polarizing filters to reduce glare and improve saturation, Special Filter for example Graduate Filter or simple UV/haze filters to provide extra protection for the front of your lens and aims to familiarize one with these and other filter options that cannot be reproduced using digital editing techniques. 

Screw on Filter

There are many type of filter that can be used in Photography, explaination will be in dept in other pages but for now, I will just introduce to you examples of Filter.








In the next topic I will explain to you the basic setting of the camera for Landscape Photography.............