Landscape photography

Landscape Photography

Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times minuscule. Landscape photographs usually capture nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes. 

The difference between an urban and a rural landscape is mainly due to man made structures. Urban Landscapes are usually created by man made buildings and structures.
Human settlements are classified as rural or urban depending on the density of human-created structures and resident people in a particular area. Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets.


Landscape Photography requires a variety of different considerations when shooting work. Lighting and time of day are crucial for photographers and is there difference between an average photo and a phenomenal photo. The right time of day is what creates the setting in the photo. For e.g a sunset photo is no good if it is shot 20 minutes before the peak time where the sun is on the horizon.

Benoit Photography

Benoit challenges the conventions of landscapes by using a big square blog of light and uses that in the middle of the photo. This square block of light is made by using loads of LED lights that are put into a large sized net which is then hung up in the centre of the photo to make the light the centre of attention. I find this work interesting because its something out of the ordinary and it catches your eyes from the off because it is bright.

For my Landscape photography shoot i chose to do it in the amphitheater because it is an open area that is full of history and is a great place to photograph a shoot. To challenge the perspectives of my shoot i chose to shoot this photo with a blurred effect. To do this i shot the photo on manual and turned the lens so that the focus of the lens was short range so that it gave a blurred effect. This challenges the perspectives because 99% of photographs are taken with the main object of the photo in clear focus whereas this is taken with everything out of focus.

I also decided to do a photo with the photo being highly over-exposed, by doing this the photo will be mostly highlighted in white areas. This challenges the perspectives because a highly over-exposed photo is usually considered a bad photo but because i am trying to be different with my photos this would be seen as creative. If i was to do this shoot again i would do my photos in landscape instead of portrait to get all of the theatre in the shot.