Landscapes

Landscape photography is taking images (generally a wide angle shot) of fr example the countryside, landscapes you are supposed to be able to see everything with a relatively equal horizon. This can be twisted and changed per subject or even photograph. For example cityscapes are similar to landscapes but instead of a row of fields it's a city's skyline or horizon.
This is your very typical cliché landscape

Often quite HDR, equal landscape and skyline.











Then there are cityscapes or urban landscapes

These often break the typical rules of landscape because there's a lot more going on in citys, a lot of urban landscapes are often shot in the street on ground level.








The things to consider when shooting landscape is the different camera options and set ups. For shooting a normal landscape during the day you're best of shooting low iso so you don't get noise from your darker tones and mid range aperture like f11 to get a lot more in focus and it's what's called the 'sweet spot' of lenses where all of the image is at it's sharpest. You roughly want to stick to the Rule Of Thirds grid depending what you're shooting. If you're shooting the sky mainly you'll want the sky to take up the top two thirds whereas if you're shooting the actual land you'll want to frame the ground within the bottom two thirds or roughly along the centre line.

You can again break these, if you're doing landscapes by the sea you can get some very nice effects by using slow shutter speeds on a tripod to get the sea to look like it has a glassy effect.

This is an example of slow shutter speeds for seascapes.











Slow shutters also work quite well with night cityscapes too although for both these slow shutter techniques

People often shoot landscapes on a 5 x 4 format camera. This means that the film negative is huge and you can get phenominal amounts of detail