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Landscapes are subjects available to everyone, but difficult to photograph well. Space, sound, environment and the atmosphere are often important as any one physical feature. It is a challenge to capture all these in a place.
Landscapes were first done by painters and sculptors. But painters have a great advantage over photographers because painters can manipulate there images. They can move trees around or take out buildings that disrupt an image. But both painters and photographers both use the same sort of rules in which to compose their images, this is that a foreground leads the eye towards a focal point, and your eye is held in place by a background. The dominant ingredient was, and still is, LIGHT.
Early photographers relied entirely on painters compositions and continued to do so through no real choice, this is until the development of the wide angle lens and telephoto lenses.
with the wide angle lenses, photographers were able to exaggerate the use of perspective, while the telephoto lenses were able to condense perspective and isolate a section of landscape. In a turn of events this caused painters to be influenced by photographers.
The classic foreground-focal point-background composition is still the basic form of landscape photography. But things such as patterns can change a whole view of a landscape. Things such as ploughed fields or a range of hills, by doing this the image, when printed out, can give an emotional feeling of the surroundings.
The quality of light falling on a landscape dramatically influences the patterns and form of a photograph. Traditionally, early morning and late afternoons provide the most dramatic lighting effects. Although clouded skies can suddenly light by a break in a cloud, during any time of the day. In which these conditions often provide great landscape photographs.
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