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Landscape Photography - outline of presentation given by Jim Young, February 4, 2004
How to Photograph Scenery
Light
Front Light
Back Light
Side Light
Overcast
Indirect Light
Warm Light
Hard vs Soft light
Polarizing Filters
Flash
Composition – Learning to See
Horizontal vs Vertical
Camera Angle
Balance
Rule of Thirds
Providing Depth
Foreground Interest
Object Overlap
Framing
Lead viewer’s eye
Depth of Focus
Including People
Snapshots
Human Interest
Scale
Foreground Interest
Colors
Coping with Weather
Shoot when Weather is “bad”
Watch for exposure problems
Overcast good for flowers
After a Rain
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