Landscape photographer. Landscape photographers for your inspiration
Landscape photography is one of the most popular genres among photographers, with countless competitions and awards.
With the help of the book of the same name and masters of their craft, we will consider 15 components of this genre.
Master of minimalism
Nikon camera D3X, F/16 aperture, 30 second shutter speed, ISO 100, ND filter. (Photo by Jonathan Chritchley | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Forest Master
These are the dancing trees in the Spielurda forest in the Netherlands. Sony a7R II camera, F/8 aperture, 1/10 shutter speed, ISO 100. (Photo by Lars Van De Goor | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Wilderness Master
El Capitan State Park, California. Camera Nikon D800, aperture F/18, shutter speed 1/20, ISO 100. (Photo by Marc Adamus | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Reserve Master
The photographer specializes in photographs of protected areas, his work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and books, and has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
The Tatshenshini is a river in southwestern Yukon Territory and northwestern British Columbia. Object World Heritage UNESCO. Camera Nikon F4, aperture F/11, shutter speed 1/60, ISO 50. (Photo by Art Wolfe | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Master of creativity
Beech forest in northern Germany. Camera Nikon D700, aperture F/5.6, shutter speed 0.8 sec, ISO 200. (Photo by Sandra Bartocha | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Mining Master
A photographer with 35 years of experience, who has visited 40 countries and published 7 books.
Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan. Canon 5D Mark III camera, F/10 aperture, 1/100 shutter speed, ISO 100. (Photo by Colin Prior | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Lighting Master
Photographer with 32 years of experience and winner of numerous awards, participant of competitions wildlife from the BBC. Canon EOS-1D X camera, F/7.1 aperture, 1/200 shutter speed, ISO 100. (Photo by David Noton | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Master of Secluded Places
The photographer is a Hasselblad Master Award winner and our local Photographer of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Camera Canon D800E, aperture F/14, shutter speed 2 sec, ISO 100. (Photo by Hans Strand | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Balance Master
A versatile photographer who drew inspiration from both military and documentary photographers, as well as the work of landscape masters.
Sony a7R camera, F/10 aperture, 1/25 shutter speed, ISO 100. (Photo by Joe Cornish | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Master of Mood
Photographer with 14 years of experience, winner of numerous competitions.
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II, aperture F/16, shutter speed 4 sec, ISO 200. (Photo by Mark Bauer | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Night Snapshot Wizard
Camera Nikon D810, aperture F/2.8, shutter speed 30 sec, ISO 800. (Photo by Mikko Lagerstedt | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Simple Shot Wizard
County of Cornwall. Camera Nikon D810, aperture F/11, shutter speed 5 sec, ISO 100. (Photo by Ross Hoddinott | Masters of Landscape Photography):
Professional landscape photographers always know how to capture the surrounding beauty from the most favorable angle and competently edit the resulting images. To use their services, apply on the YouDo website. Here you can independently choose the most suitable contractor and directly agree on the terms of cooperation.
Features of landscape photography
The genre of landscape photography involves creating clear and unusual shots. The photographers you contact on Yuda follow all the rules of photography and therefore will be able to convey all the beauty of nature: mysterious winter forest, spreading trees covered with snow, sunset, the endless blue of the sea.
Lighting is the main component when photographing landscapes, which is why landscape photographers registered with Yuda choose a specific time to take photos.
If you are looking for professionals in your field in Moscow, use the YouDo website. Here the best landscape photographers offer their services, who can take high-quality and unusual photos. Cooperation with the best Russian photographers is much more reliable than searching for newcomers offering their services on various sites.
Benefits of working with professionals
World-class Russian landscape photographers are able to colorfully and believably convey the unique charm of the forest, capture the sky at sunset, and summer rain. A professional landscape photographer always knows what to create a masterpiece important role plays:
- quality of light
- the right angle
- special optics
- wide angle lens
- presence of a tripod
Any experienced landscape photographer in Moscow and other cities values his reputation. He has specialized education and uses the latest equipment. These are the people you can find on the YouDo website.
A world-famous landscape photographer not only publishes his works on his personal website, but also organizes personal exhibitions, which significantly increase his rating. At the same time, everyone can clearly see the works of Russian photographers, which are presented in their portfolio on the Yudu website.
You can order various photos nature: sea, forest, sunset in winter or at any other time of the year. Usage experienced specialists Modern cameras with tripods make it possible to get high-quality photos of moving objects.
When shooting, specialists also use the camera lens in three planes: foreground, middle, distant. This will allow you to get pictures with a volume effect that will be of the highest quality and closest to reality. During their work, specialists often change the shooting angle, use side light, and create shadows.
Sudden changes in weather also provide an opportunity to take unusual photos for you.
How to choose an experienced photographer?
- shooting genre
- number of photos that will be provided after completion of work
- model and brand of camera he uses
- cost of work (hourly or for the project as a whole)
Payment for the services of a landscape photographer depends on his experience and rating among other performers. A professional will first agree with you on all the details in order to understand what exactly you want to get at the end of his work. When shooting a sunny sky, field, lake, trees, or other natural objects great attention to detail is paid.
A professional always takes into account the goals and objectives that were discussed when ordering his services. The cost of paying specialists is also affected by the number of frames you order, weather conditions, time and place of shooting, and your special wishes.
When ordering a service on the Yudu website, you have the opportunity to independently choose a contractor and agree with him on all the terms of cooperation. Landscape photographers will take stunning and impressive photographs at the most affordable price for you.
We continue to introduce our readers to the best contemporary photographers. Today we’ll talk about the landscape genre. So, read our review, share it with your friends and get inspired by admiring the works of masters of the landscape genre!
Dmitry Arkhipov
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A native Muscovite, Dmitry Arkhipov has been interested in photography since childhood. A physicist by training, Dmitry served in the army, worked at the Space Research Institute under the Buran program, created his own well-known IT company, while simultaneously continuing to improve in the field of landscape photography.
The results of his travels to 108 countries around the world were five personal exhibitions, where Dmitry’s works were seen by more than a million people. Now Dmitry Arkhipov is a titled photographer, a member of the Russian Union of Photographers, winner and laureate of national and international photo competitions.
Denis Budkov
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Denis Budkov is a native of Kamchatka, since 1995 he has been traveling and photographing his native land. The love for nature and the desire to show all its beauty became the motivation for studying the basics of photography and improving skills in practice. Denis’s main passion is volcanoes, which the nature of Kamchatka is so rich in. The volcanic eruptions and peaceful Kamchatka landscapes he captured have already received awards from the prestigious photo competitions Best of Russia 2009, 2013, Wildlife of Russia 2011, 2013, Golden Turtle, Wildlife Photographer of the Year - 2011. Denis says that photography for him is a way of life, which is completely satisfactory. The main thing is to wait for the right moment to take that very shot.
Mikhail Vershinin
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Mikhail Vershinin became interested in photography as a child; he had to give up visiting the photo studio in favor of another hobby - rock climbing and mountaineering, but even on sports routes he took his camera with him. The craving for traveling in wild places and the passion for filming eventually led Mikhail Vershinin to landscape photography. He explains his choice of this particular genre not only by a craving for nature, but also by a special mood, the ability to convey feelings and emotions with the help of a captured moment. Mikhail Vershinin’s works have repeatedly become finalists and winners of Russian and international competitions, including National Geographic Russia - 2004 and FIAP Trierenberg Super Circuit - 2011 in the Night Image category.
Oleg Gaponyuk
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Oleg Gaponyuk, a MIPT graduate, lives and works in Moscow and has an unusual hobby - panoramic photography. For the sake of a good photo, he can easily go to the other end of the earth, while doing alpine skiing, windsurfing and diving. Despite the fact that his sporting hobbies are related to mountains, seas and oceans, in the field of photography Oleg became interested in creating spherical panoramas in the air. He is actively involved in the AirPano.ru project, within the framework of which more than 1,500 bird's-eye panoramas have already been taken in the most interesting cities and corners of the world. In terms of the geography of filming, the number of aerial panoramas and the artistic value of the material, this project is one of the world leaders in this type of panoramic photography.
Daniil Korzhonov
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MIPT graduate Daniil Korzhonov prefers to call himself an amateur photographer, because he simply does what he likes. Photography allowed him to combine his passion for painting and his love of travel. As a landscape photographer he visits the most beautiful places globe and “draws” on film what he sees. Combining photography with travel allows Daniil to lead an active lifestyle and express his thoughts and feelings with the help of beautiful and original shots taken both in wild places and on city streets. He advises all novice photographers to shoot as much and as often as possible in order to better understand the beauty of the world around them.
Vladimir Medvedev
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Vladimir Medvedev is the founder of the Wildlife Photographers Club, a tireless traveler, professional photographer, winner of international competitions, including the BBC Wildlife Photography Competition in 2012 in the Eric Hosking Portfolio Award category. Collaboration with wildlife reserves around the world allows Vladimir to take unique photographs of the pristine world and its inhabitants. According to Vladimir Medvedev, photography is both an art, a means of understanding the world, and a means of influencing the world. It's easy to start taking photographs - you just need to buy a camera and learn from the best.
Yuri Pustovoy
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Yuri Pustovoy is a graduate of VGIK, a cinematographer at the Odessa Film Studio with ten years of experience and an honored travel photographer. His works received recognition from the jury and visitors international exhibitions and photo competitions, in Yuri’s collection of awards Gold medal International Federation of Photographic Arts FIAP Global Arctic Awards 2012. Yuri Pustovoy is not only a traveler and photographer, but also an organizer of photo tours for real amateur photographers and beginners. The cameras of Yuri and his team capture landscapes from the most different corners planets. During the tour, Yuri shares his photographic experience, helps during filming with advice and action, and teaches techniques for processing photographs in graphic editors.
Sergey Semenov
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Sergey Semenov became interested in photography in 2003, when he got his hands on a digital camera for the first time in his life. Since then, he has not only devoted his entire life to this hobby free time, but also turned photography into a profession, exchanging the career of an economist for the fate of a travel photographer. In pursuit of the most beautiful views lands Sergei visits national parks North America, the mountains of Patagonia, the icy lagoons of Iceland, the Brazilian jungle and hot deserts. He takes pictures of his favorite landscapes from a bird's eye view and is an active participant in the AirPano.ru project. In his first panorama, Sergei showed the Kremlin as birds see it.
Vlad Sokolovsky
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Belarusian photographer Vlad Sokolovsky is known as a master of the landscape genre. Like many of his colleagues, he believes that beauty is present everywhere, and the skill of a photographer lies in showing it to the viewer. He is characterized by being demanding of himself and the quality of his work. You will be surprised, but sometimes Vlad comes to the same place several times to achieve required lighting and take a great shot. Also, Vlad has been reading our magazine for a long time and regularly shares his photographs with our entire audience.
Alexey Suloev
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Alexey Suloev received his first camera at the age of seven and quickly got used to photographing everything around him, especially since his passion for tourism allowed him to find himself in the most unusual, unexplored places of the Caucasus, Pamir and Tien Shan. Gradually, tourist trips turned into real photo trips. In pursuit of unusual shots, Alexey has already visited more than a hundred countries; the geography of his trips includes the most inaccessible and untouched places on our planet, from the North to the South Pole. Alexey takes pictures because he cannot describe in words the beauty and diversity of the earth. He generously shares everything he sees with his viewers, so that every person can find creative inspiration in the inexhaustibility of nature.
With whom you still need to be able to negotiate. Nature is beautiful in itself. However, how often do gorgeous views that give rise to feelings of sadness or happiness, when captured by a camera, become mediocre and boring photographs! A landscape photographer must possess and develop a taste and sense of beauty. In addition to his love of nature, he will need many skills to take successful landscape photographs. The laws of composition and knowledge of the characteristics of light are by no means the key to the success of a good landscape photograph. For a city dweller, landscape photography can be an excellent hobby that brings a change of scenery, relaxation and the joy of creativity. Admire the photographs of the section, look into the “Photography Lessons” section, look at the works of famous landscape photographers and join the connoisseurs of beauty - landscape photographers.
Abandoned America
Alexa Mackenzie
Alex McKenzie is a self-taught photographer, traveler and drone operator. Alex currently lives and works in Colorado. He mainly photographs nature, landscapes and abandoned places. Alex travels around the country in search of interesting objects left behind by people. He uses a Sony A7RII camera and a DJI Mavic 2 Pro.
- genre fine arts, whose main task is to display surrounding nature both in its original form and modified by man to one degree or another. Since photography is one of the fine arts, landscape photography fully corresponds to this definition. The main visual center of landscape photography is nature in all its manifestations.
Of course, landscape as a genre appeared long before the invention of photography - in painting. And honed over centuries artistic media landscape images formed a row necessary conditions, mandatory for this genre of photography. Linear perspective , tonal (aerial) perspective, optical perspective,frame composition , light space And color - these are the main characteristics of landscape photography, capable of not only very accurately conveying the state of the surrounding nature at a certain point in time, but also highlighting semantic center image without the use of additional manipulation techniques. And despite the fact that in landscape photography the presence of people or animals in the frame is allowed, they are clearly assigned the role of staffage - an element of the landscape that exists to enliven the image and plays a secondary role in this image.
At its core, landscape photography is documentary photography about nature. According to the type of space depicted, landscape photography can be terrestrial, water, astronomical and meteorological. Landscape photography depicts landscape, topography and vegetation and is both rural and urban.
Water landscape (seascape, marina) is an image of the water (sea) element.
Astronomical landscape photography depicts the heavens (stars, constellations, Sun, Moon),
and meteorological - weather and precipitation (fog, rain, clouds, tornado, etc.).
According to the way of depicting space, landscape photography can be chamber and panoramic. Camera photography in this case does not imply a narrow circle of viewers, but expresses purely technical characteristics- a small, narrow viewing angle of the depicted space.
Panoramic landscape photography is the absolute opposite - it is a photograph, the viewing angle of which can often exceed 180 degrees.
According to the degree of perception by the viewer, a landscape can, by analogy with music, be minor or major. Tragic or solemn. Sad or cheerful. In solving this problem, the photographer comes to the aid of color theory, namely one of its sections - psychology of color. Knowing what colors and how they affect the viewer’s consciousness, the photographer can adjust color balance of the composition landscape to achieve a specific result. At the same time, in a landscape, cold shades cannot always create an atmosphere of hostility, and warm shades can create an atmosphere of friendliness. Small colored vegetation against the backdrop of black thunderclouds looks defenseless, and the picture as a whole evokes a feeling of anxiety, while cold Elbrus evokes awe and delight with its grandeur.
Of course, several of the listed natural spaces and states can easily overlap in one picture at the same time, but in this case it is important for the landscape photographer to decide what exactly in this picture is semantic center, and select this center using visual arts — prospects, compositions, Sveta, colors.
If there is no such center, then landscape photography is purely aesthetic, narrative-specific in nature and is used for decorative, scientific or journalistic purposes. Landscape photography belongs precisely to the category of aesthetic perception - plein air— truthful transfer in the depiction of nature of the colorful richness of color changes in natural conditions under the influence of sunlight and atmosphere.
If there is still a semantic center in landscape photography, then such a landscape will be charged with emotional-dramatic (or epic) energy and will acquire the features artistic landscape photography.
Along with mandatory conditions creating landscape photography, there are a number of conditions that are specific in nature - dynamism , angle , detail. Considering that photography is a static and silent form of fine art, it is in landscape photography that it is most difficult to convey certain atmospheric phenomena with great accuracy. How to show strong wind in a photo of a desert? How can mountain giants be depicted more majestic? It is in these cases that a landscape photographer is saved by knowledge about the dynamics of the frame, the shooting point and the angle.
Has become widespread nowadays tourist landscape photography. Although not essentially a separate genre, tourist landscape photography has become very popular due to both the availability of photographic equipment and the opportunity to visit the most remote corners of our planet.
The main feature of landscape photography is its accessibility. It does not require any scenery or staging tricks; it does not depend on the mood of the model or the preferences of the customer. It depends on the surrounding nature and weather conditions. And in this sense landscape photography unique. Whether it’s a park or an alley within the city, or maybe a mountain range or the quiet expanse of a lake beyond its borders - wherever you are, on vacation or on a business trip, in your own country or abroad, it is everywhere - nature - amazing a natural space capable of changing shape, content and color every minute, day after day, all year round, for thousands of years... And even if the landscape photograph you take does not contain any semantic core, it will always be aesthetic, which means it will always remind you of the essence and forms of beauty.
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