The Job Of A Landscape Photographer
The job of a landscape photographer is to record a scene. Yet, photographers often fail to capture what it felt like to be actually at a scene.
A good landscape photographer arrives at a scene early, and waits for the scene to unfold. Waiting patiently for changing colours and changing mood, which all go along with the change of the weather.
Vital to all of this is light – natural light and all the elements it brings to a scene.
To be able to use light correctly and creatively we first must understand it. Once we understand it we can use it to our advantage in creating beautifully, dramatic landscape images.
There are three basic qualities of light: intensity, direction and colour.
Intensity: refers to the strength of light. If the sun is high in the sky, light can be harsh and too strong. Cloudy days bring soft and defused light.
Direction: this refers to light placement. There are three categories of light placement: front, back and side-lighting. Side lighting produces more texture between light and shade.
Colour: the colour of sunlight varies depending upon conditions and time of day. If the sun shines at the beginning or the end of the day, the colour of the light will be much warmer, and will lead to a much more dramatic scene.
While all three are different qualities of light, they all have another important factor in common – time of day. Choosing the correct time of day is a foremost in capturing a scene at its best. The intensity of light brings out different colours in a landscape image. Colours in landscape photography depend on light available and also what time you shoot a scene, and where you place your camera.
Early morning shots will cast a red hue in your images. This only lasts a few minutes after sunrise. As the morning progresses the red hue turns to yellow. This normally lasts while the sun is low in the sky. Long shadows are cast along a scene during these early hours. These can add mood to an image. Come mid-day the sun is high in the sky. The shadows are gone. This is the best time of the day for landscape photographers.
As the day turns to evening and the sun gradually falls in the sky, the sun casts stronger colours similar to morning. Sunset can be just as exciting as sunrise.
Time and light come hand in hand. Using both together will most certainly bring out the best in your landscape photographs. We ourselves decide what direction we use, do we use the sun at our backs, or is it better to use it at our side? I prefer side-lighting or facing the sun.
If you’re unsure go to a scene and take a few images. Mark the ground so you can place the camera in the exact same spot and return a few hours later. Return to the scene several times and take notes of light direction. Record the different exposures you take your images. Compare the shots from the different times of day, and the answer will unfold in front of you.
Understanding natural light develops your ability to create better images. You’ll then start to see the beauty of light and colours in a new and exciting way.
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Alaska $17.55 Art Wolfe’s photographic tour of Alaska has become the standard volume of its class. These 150 images take the reader from the lush Southeast to the singular Denali Mountain and across the northern tundra. The tenth anniversary edition of Alaska features gorgeous landscape-format photography, with sections including “Mountain,” “River and Lake,” “Tundra,” “Sea and Coast,” “Forest,” and “Island.” With an international reputation as one of the most accomplished nature and wildlife photographers, Art Wolfe continues to expand his audience through his public television show Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe. |
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Alaska’s Bush Planes $14.95 It is no wonder that the Bush plane is an icon of the Last Frontier. Alaska has approximately six times as many pilots and fourteen times as many airplanes per capita as the rest of the United States. The Bush plane is a critical method of transportation for supplies and passengers in this vast state as well as a spectacular way to tour the majestic landscape. A perfect choice for Alaskan visitors and aviation enthusiasts, ALASKA’S BUSH PLANES is loaded with stunning photos by Alaska’s best-known landscape photographers. Images include float, ski wheel, and amphibian planes, along with information on the challenging weather conditions that pilots face, the types of cargo and missions they fly, and their destinations. Extended captions provide technical information on various aircraft and how they perform in Alaska’s widely diverse terrains and climate zones, while an introductory essay covers the beginnings of aviation in Alaska. |
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Alcatraz: 10,000 Years of Life on the Rock $4.96 Used – This stunningly beautiful, oversized (10×13) book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by American’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories. |
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Aline Diepois & Thomas Gizolme: Dust Book $37.31 Used – “A warm foul-smelling wind whips up the sand in this desolate land; dust lingers in the air, cloaking the strange landscape in a dull greyish veil. Farther on, there’s a sign that says ‘Dust Storm May Exist.’ It’s amazing to think that what’s going on inside us at that exact moment is perfectly in synch with the earth on which we dwell.” Designers and photographers Aline Diepois and Thomas Gizolme, who live and work together in Paris, created “Dust Book” while exploring the southwestern U |
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Aline Diepois & Thomas Gizolme: Dust Book $37.26 New – “A warm foul-smelling wind whips up the sand in this desolate land; dust lingers in the air, cloaking the strange landscape in a dull greyish veil. Farther on, there’s a sign that says ‘Dust Storm May Exist.’ It’s amazing to think that what’s going on inside us at that exact moment is perfectly in synch with the earth on which we dwell.” Designers and photographers Aline Diepois and Thomas Gizolme, who live and work together in Paris, created “Dust Book” while exploring the southwestern U. |
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Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations $24.95 Robert Adams, one of America’s foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture’s previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography’s place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. Along Some Rivers collects Adams’s correspondence and conversations—some of which have never been published before—with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. Along Some Rivers also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes. |
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Amazonia $20 Amazonia documents one of the Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems–the headwaters of the Amazon River in Peru and Bolivia. Over a series of years beginning in 2003, noted National Geographic photographer Sam Abell traveled along the Amazon, taking photographs of its wild beauty. The resulting images by Abell and his colleague Torben Ulrik Nissen, a noted Danish wildlife photographer and experienced guide, provide rare insight into a remote and untouched landscape and the creatures that inhabit its dangerous rainforest and waters. Through their photographs and firsthand commentary, we experience the challenges and epiphanies of their journey and come to respect the power of the Amazon and its inestimable value to life on this planet.Because so many dramatic pictures of exotic animals capture our attention regularly, it is important to understand that the photographs were taken in accordance with an agreed-upon dogma. First, the photographers used film. Second, they used no filters or special effects. Third, all of the images are uncropped and were unchanged in post-production. In short, they adhered to the strictest standards of traditional documentary photography. As a result, we see what they saw, nothing more or less. “By showing them in their authentic settings,” notes Abell, “we make evident the connection between habitat preservation and the survival of these animals. The Amazon’s meaning is in its totality.” |
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American Photographers at the Turn of the Century: Nature and Landscape $54.95 New – Eleven of the finest contemporary photographers continue the tradition of expanding our vision through their photography. This stunning new volume provides an eclectic mix of nature, wildlife, scenic and architectural landscapes. The photo subjects vary in geographical scope from American locations to international. Over ten countries and 15 states are depicted. Photos. |
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American Photographers at the Turn of the Century: Nature and Landscape $0.99 New – Eleven of the finest contemporary photographers continue the tradition of expanding our vision through their photography. This stunning new volume provides an eclectic mix of nature, wildlife, scenic and architectural landscapes. The photo subjects vary in geographical scope from American locations to international. Over ten countries and 15 states are depicted. Photos. |
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American Photography $1.91 Used – 150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly “American” way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them. Orvell combines a clear overview of the changing nature of photographi |
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American Photography $24.95 150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly ‘American’ way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them.Orvell combines a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic thinking and practice in this period with an exploration of key concepts. The result is the first coherent history of American photography, which examines issues such as the nature of photographic exploitation, experimental techniques, the power of the photograph to shock, and whether we should subscribe to the notion of a visual history. |
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American Photography $16.11 New – 150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, familyalbums and memory, and analyses the particularly ‘American’ way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them. Orvell combines a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic |
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American Ruins: Ghosts on the Landscape $9.99 Used – One of the Most Important architectural photographers working today, MacKenzie chronicles a fast-disappearing manifestation of the American Dream — the eloquent remains of barns, houses, and schools erected by immigrant settlers. His crisp black-and-white prints provide a poignant reminder that architecture sometimes becomes most evocative when it slips toward ruin.With an artist’s eye, an architect’s sensibility, and a native son’s passion, MacKenzie has made poetic images of these prim |
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American Ruins: Ghosts on the Landscape $6.99 Used – One of the Most Important architectural photographers working today, MacKenzie chronicles a fast-disappearing manifestation of the American Dream — the eloquent remains of barns, houses, and schools erected by immigrant settlers. His crisp black-and-white prints provide a poignant reminder that architecture sometimes becomes most evocative when it slips toward ruin.With an artist’s eye, an architect’s sensibility, and a native son’s passion, MacKenzie has made poetic images of these prim |
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Ammonite Nikon Coolpix 7100 Guide $19.95 This fully illustrated Expanded Guide from Ammonite Press will equip photographers of all levels to maximize the potential of their Nikon P7100, with superior results. Much more than a simple camera manual – it is a complete authoritative resource; full color, easy to use, jargon free and written by an expert using real-life examples. A perfect size for the camera bag, this book covers: Step-by-step instructions for basic and advanced functions About the Author: Jon Sparks is an award-winning photographer and writer specializing in landscape and outdoor photography. He has travelled and photographed in Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Morocco as well as most European countries and supplies images to the global libraries Corbis and Alamy as well as selling images directly through his own library. |
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An Unofficial Biography of John Blakemore: Photographing Coventry and Floral Scenes Through Zone Focusing $16.91 Used – John Blakemore, a British landscape photographer, has expanded the naturistic photographic style originated by photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Steichen. This book takes a look at his early life in Coventry and in the Royal Air Force, his photographic style, influences (from Ansel Adams to Galen Rowell), and recognition in the Royal Photographic Society.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevan |
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An Unofficial Biography of John Blakemore: Photographing Coventry and Floral Scenes Through Zone Focusing $16.82 Used – John Blakemore, a British landscape photographer, has expanded the naturistic photographic style originated by photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Steichen. This book takes a look at his early life in Coventry and in the Royal Air Force, his photographic style, influences (from Ansel Adams to Galen Rowell), and recognition in the Royal Photographic Society.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevan |
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Andreas Gursky $120 Following the 2010 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, this magnificent set of slipcased books captures the grandness and lushness of the epic photographs of Andreas Gursky, one of the world s greatest living photographers. This is the first book featuring the artist’’s new Ocean series, in which the artist relinquished his position behind the camera to work with satellite images of the world as the basis for this work. In their darkly-nuanced surfaces, Gursky creates contemporary mappe del mondo continuing the debates and practices begun in the nineteenth century, but on a scale befitting the cosmic grandeur of the subject. The book is divided into two large-format volumes with one showcasing his new Ocean works and the other a grouping of subjects he has selected from the last twenty years, from the landscape Mqlheim an der Ruhr, Anglers (1989) to the empty scene of Untitled XV (2008). |
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Anne Noble: States of Grace $199.99 Used – The art of Anne Noble, one of New Zealand’s foremost artists and photographers, is chronicled in this book. Recognized as a pivotal figure in the evolution of New Zealand photography, Noble captures not only the landscape through her camera lens, but also the political, ethnic, and social demands of daily life. Regardless of the medium, her art conveys a remarkable range of social breadth with images that discover states of grace among the faces and objects of ordinary life. Included are |
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Ansel Adams $20.31 New – Perhaps the most famous of all American photographers, Ansel Adams won fame for his sharp and poetic images of the western landscape. View a selection of his finest photographs, and enjoy an insightful text that captures the man as both an artist and a conservationist. Although Adams was a master of photographic technology, what makes his bold and dynamic pictures so powerful is his passion for nature and the Western panoramas. In elegant, subtle black-and-white he captured the grace and s |
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Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography $2.39 Used – Working with a cumbersome 8 x 10 field camera, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created some of the most dramatic and influential photographs ever made of the American West. His majestic landscapes and evocative still lifes conveyed a vision of an idealized America that helped inspire the wilderness conservation movement. Yet despite these accomplishments, Adams has been the least studied of America’s most important photographers. This biography of the artist, along with a critical analysis of his |
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Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West $1.99 New – Ansel Adams has been called by many the greatest photographer of all. He proved most decisively that photography could be a major art form. His pictures, whether still life, portrait, or the landscape and nature studies for which he is is most famous, are all imbued with a poetic feeling, a poetry enhanced by the exceptional clarity of the images. Adams’s work was part of a tradition of western American photography that began in the late 19th century and included the work of Carlton E. Wes |
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Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West $1.64 Used – Ansel Adams has been called by many the greatest photographer of all. He proved most decisively that photography could be a major art form. His pictures, whether still life, portrait, or the landscape and nature studies for which he is is most famous, are all imbued with a poetic feeling, a poetry enhanced by the exceptional clarity of the images. Adams’s work was part of a tradition of western American photography that began in the late 19th century and included the work of Carlton E. We |
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Archaeology from Above $21.83 Used – From up in the air, the beauty and grandeur of the world’s foremost archaeological sites are truly visible in their totality, as complete, awe-inspiring units that fit into the larger landscape. This spectacular volume documents the unique journey made by a group of renowned specialist photographers to shoot some of the world’s most impressive sites from this bird’s-eye vantage point. From the Egyptian Pyramids and the kingdoms of Mesoamerica to Stonehenge in England and the sinuous stone |
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Archaeology from Above $21.83 New – From up in the air, the beauty and grandeur of the world’s foremost archaeological sites are truly visible in their totality, as complete, awe-inspiring units that fit into the larger landscape. This spectacular volume documents the unique journey made by a group of renowned specialist photographers to shoot some of the world’s most impressive sites from this bird’s-eye vantage point. From the Egyptian Pyramids and the kingdoms of Mesoamerica to Stonehenge in England and the sinuous stone |
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Arches: Where Rock Meets Sky $0.99 Used – This stunningly beautiful, oversized (10×13) book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by American’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories. |
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Argyll $12.76 Used – These books are not simply pictures of what we can see from our car window, nor simply misty landscapes but photography which gets to the heart of both the landscape and its human component. While covering all the main attractions in an area the photographers have sought out the quirky, the curious and the unknown to give a new dimension to a land we all thought we knew. Argyll – the enduring heartland – with a coastline longer than that of France is one of the most beautiful counties in |
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Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afghanistan $49.95 Arms Against Fury examines the dramatic struggle of the Afghan people through the lens of Magnum photographers, dating back to co-founder George Rodger’s documentation of the country’s role in World War II. Ever since, Magnum’s intrepid photographers have crisscrossed the country’s striking landscape from the Central Asian steppes to the parched southern desert by way of the Hindu Kush mountains surrounding Kabul and the adjacent Panjshir Valley. As early as the 1950s, Eve Arnold and Marc Riboud filed unprecedented stories from a legendary Shangri-La, showing a small kingdom struggling for statehood against the forces of underdevelopment and unfortunate geographic position during the Cold War. The ultimate overthrow of the monarchy and brutal liquidation of Afghanistan’s constitutional government in 1978 heralded the arrival of Soviet-style communism. Peasants in Nuristan rebelled immediately and initiated a jihad that was covered first by Raymond Depardon and then by Steve McCurry, and later by renowned photojournalist Abbas, who also focused on the progress of the mujahedin, who eventually faced a massive Red Army invasion and savage aerial bombardments. The victory against the Soviets also signaled the beginning of a civil war that began in 1992. Documented by Luc Delahaye, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Abbas, and Steve McCurry, Afghan militias destroyed large swathes of Kabul. The Taliban militia subdued warring factions in 1996 and proclaimed an Islamic emirate. Steele-Perkins was one of the few journalists to report from Afghanistan during this period of theocratic tyranny. In the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the hated Taliban were shaken from power by a loose alliance of mujahedin backed by American forces. Yet nothing seemed to remedy the miserable spectacle of a ruined country littered with ten million land mines and thousands of innocent victims of the hi-tech war on terror. |
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Around Brighton and Hove: From the Judges Postcard Archive Collection $21.15 Used – Judges Postcards have been celebrating the British landscape for over a hundred years. In the nature of their business, photographers have been despatched at intervals in that time to update images and to record changes in major destinations and quiet corners of the realm. The need for current images inevitably created a growing archive chronicling the times before change occurred. That archive has now become a unique and priceless record of a century of such change and this book draws on |
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Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration $9.06 Representing at once a diversity of style, medium, and scale and an intersection of inspiration and response, Art of West Texas Women celebrates twenty women visual artists living and working in an expansive, rugged landscape—the vast western half of Texas, far from the dynamics of urban art communities and large national markets. Without attempting to serve as a comprehensive catalog—impossible considering the breadth of activity in a huge region—the book is a sampler of creative expression. The painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, fiber artists, and printmakers in these pages are as distinctive and independent as the solitary place that nurtures them. But they also share common threads: all of these artists came of age during the feminist movement of the 1970s and find the expansiveness and relative isolation of their landscapes an elemental influence. As with Georgia O’Keeffe, herself an early interpreter of the West Texas Plains, the women featured here find that this land of wind and sky has liberated them and engendered a sense of expressive freedom and artistic strength. |
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Articles On Landscape Photographers, including: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Raghubir Singh (photographer), Dave Currey (environmentalist), Rolph Gobits, Nick Meers, Nick Brandt, Eric Nguyen, Per Bak Jensen $17.75 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Articles on Landscape Photographers, Including: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Raghubir Singh (Photographer), Dave Currey (Environmentalist), Rolph Gobits, Nick Meers, Nick Brandt, Eric Nguyen, Per Bak Jensen $16.42 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domai |
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Articles on Landscape Photographers, Including: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Raghubir Singh (Photographer), Dave Currey (Environmentalist), Rolph Gobits, Nick Meers, Nick Brandt, Eric Nguyen, Per Bak Jensen $12.04 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domai |
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As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art $27.95 To Rebecca Solnit, the word “landscape” implies not only literal places, but also the ground on which we invent our lives and confront our innermost troubles and desires. The organic world, to Solnit, gives rise to the social, political, and philosophical landscapes we inhabit. As Eve Said to the Serpent skillfully weaves the natural world with the realm of art–its history, techniques, and criticism–to offer a remarkable compendium of Solnit’s research and ruminations.The nineteen pieces in this book range from the intellectual formality of traditional art criticism to highly personal, lyrical meditations. All are distinguished by Solnit’s vivid, original style that blends imaginative associations with penetrating insights. These thoughts produce quirky, intelligent, and wryly humorous content as Solnit ranges across disciplines to explore nuclear test sites, the meaning of national borders, deserts, clouds, and caves–as well as ideas of the feminine and the sublime as they relate to our physical and psychological terrains.Sixty images throughout the book display the work of the contemporary artists under discussion, including landscape photographers, performance artists, sculptors, and installation artists. Alongside her text, Solnit’s gallery of images provides a vivid excursion into new ways of perceiving landscape, bodies, and art. Animals and the human body appear together with space and terra firma as Solnit reconfigures the blurred lines that define nature. |
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Atlanta $0.99 Used – As expansive as America itself, this series introduces four new titles featuring images by North America’s top photographers. Atlanta is a rich blend of modern cosmopolitan city and old southern charm. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and stunning skyline make it one of the most recognizable cities in the world. Hawaii’s endless beaches and lush landscape create breathtaking scenery. Indiana, the heart of the Midwest, has a glorious landscape worthy of the heart of America. Each book ca |
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Australia $10.99 Used – A series of books about individual countries that really brings a flavour of everyday life in the different parts of the world they explore. The text is straightforward and accessible, largely taking the form of extended captions to plentiful illustrations. The photographs are all specially commissioned for the series and taken by top-quality photographers. The books are in unusual landscape format which really lends itself to the lavish illustrations and ensures a clear reading order. Ja |
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Australia’s West $41.3 Used – Richard Woldendorp is one of the best-known landscape photographers in Australias. This updated edition of Richards most impressive and sought-after hardcover photographic book showcases the beauty and drama of the vast Western Australian landscape. |
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Australia’s West $6.75 Used – Richard Woldendorp is one of the best-known landscape photographers in Australias. This updated edition of Richards most impressive and sought-after hardcover photographic book showcases the beauty and drama of the vast Western Australian landscape. |
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Bae Bien-U: Sacred Wood $58.75 Used – With his meditative landscape photographs, which have an almost calligraphic quality, Seoul-based Bae Bien-U is one of Korea’s best known artists, and has influenced a generation of photographers during his many years of teaching. He first rose to prominence in his country with his series–ongoing for the past two decades–depicting pine groves, which are plentiful, as the pine is Korea’s national tree, representing longevity. Beginning with a selection of images taken near Gyeongju’s Sil |
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Bae Bien-U: Sacred Wood $58.75 New – With his meditative landscape photographs, which have an almost calligraphic quality, Seoul-based Bae Bien-U is one of Korea’s best known artists, and has influenced a generation of photographers during his many years of teaching. He first rose to prominence in his country with his series–ongoing for the past two decades–depicting pine groves, which are plentiful, as the pine is Korea’s national tree, representing longevity. Beginning with a selection of images taken near Gyeongju’s Sill |
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Basic Forms $26.66 Used – For nearly four decades this renowned German husband-and-wife team of photographers has been paying tribute to the industrial landscape. Their work ranks internationally among the most significant achievements in the field of industrial photography. The 64 images in this collection comprise a typical cross-section of the Bechers’ work. Captured in stark black and white, the structures here — American and European grain elevators, gas tanks, blast furnaces, water towers — are impeccably |
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Basic Forms $315.45 New – For nearly four decades this renowned German husband-and-wife team of photographers has been paying tribute to the industrial landscape. Their work ranks internationally among the most significant achievements in the field of industrial photography. The 64 images in this collection comprise a typical cross-section of the Bechers’ work. Captured in stark black and white, the structures here — American and European grain elevators, gas tanks, blast furnaces, water towers — are impeccably p |
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Basilico Berlin $78.41 Used – Gabriele Basilico is one of the best-known ‘documentary’ photographers in Europe; his field of research is the city and the industralized landscape photographed in black and white and with extreme rigour. An architect by training, he is committed to imposing discipline on spaces and volumes. He tends to cut and define shadows at the same angle, imparting an order and creating a geometry that is based on tormented architecture. This archive of Basilico’s photographs of Berlin was accumulat |
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Beautiful America Oregon $4.33 All new edition with over 60 full-color photos by Oregon’s top landscape photographers. Complete coverage of the scenic diversity of Oregon from its ocean shores to its mountains and high desert. |
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Beautiful America Oregon $24.95 All new edition with over 60 full-color photos by Oregon’s top landscape photographers. Complete coverage of the scenic diversity of Oregon from its ocean shores to its mountains and high desert. |
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Beautiful Flower Landscape Themed Studio Photograph Muslin Background $46.99 This Waterproof Photograph Background Backdrop is easy to use and setup. The Photograph Background backdrop works great with digital cameras, it is ideal for all level photographers. This Background will last any photo studio for years. They are very fine weave and sewing, the colors are rich and colorfast. |
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Beautiful Natural Landscape Themed Studio Photograph Muslin $46.99 This Waterproof Photograph Background Backdrop is easy to use and setup. The Photograph Background backdrop works great with digital cameras, it is ideal for all level photographers. This Background will last any photo studio for years. They are very fine weave and sewing, the colors are rich and colorfast. |
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Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil $32.5 Depict the spidery delicacy of sycamore branches outlined against a brilliant sky. Capture the feeling of dawn creeping over the horizon. Interpret the drama of waves surging toward the shore. The Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil provides 135 stimulating demonstrations in painting trees, skies, and water from beautiful photographs by one of the world’s leading nature photographers. This book will be invaluable to landscape artists. The 600 magnificent illustrations and engaging text cover the entire range of oil painting techniques and give the artist in-depth instruction in painting beautiful images of the natural world in all seasons, weather, geographical variety, and at every time of day. Many of the lessons are followed by assignments designed to help you apply what you have just learned to new situations. The Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil is a must for everyone who wants to master the techniques for becoming a first-rate landscape painter. |
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Black and White Landscape Photography $23.95 Because landscape photographers are at the mercy of quickly changing weather, uneven illumination, poor contrast or limited tonal range, and other elements, this book shares the skills and techniques needed to turn these liabilities into assets. It explores types of landscape photography, explains what equipment works best, and describes how to find a balance between creativity and technique. It tells how to see the palette of natural light and the tonalities that make for outstanding photography and discusses focus, depth of field, and controlling tonalities in black- and-white landscapes. |
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Bower 14mm f2.8 Manual Focus Aspherical Wide Angle Lens +Accessory Kit for Pentax Digital SLR Camera $419.99 The Bower 14mm Aspherical Wide Angle Lens is an excellent addition to any photographers collection. It allows users the ability to expand their creativity and capture incredible scenes from a truly unique perspective. This manual focus lens when used with cameras with an APS-C image sensor creates images with an expanded perspective including images with a creatively deformed outlook and a sharp pan focus that extends throughout the entire frame. Optical construction is based on 14 elements in 12 groups. 2 ED low dispertion lenses one hybrid aspherical element and one glass aspherical element combine to minimize distortion and chromatic aberrations. Advanced optical construction allows this lens to deliver razor sharp images even in corners. The 14mm f/2.8 works perfectly even with latest high resolution full frame sensors. The lens is optically corrected which is especially useful in architecture and landscape photography and the 114? angle of view allows the user to create extremely unique and interesting pictures. Key Features: Two ED lenses; one hybrid aspherical and one glass aspherical High quality anti-reflecting layers Field of view: for 35mm is 114 degrees for APS-C – 92.5 degrees Minimal focusing distance: 10.8 (274mm) |
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Boyd Norton’s Outdoor Digital Photography Handbook: How to Shoot Like a Pro $24.99 Pro photographer Boyd Norton provides expert advice and hard-won secrets on digital wildlife, landscape, and nature photography. Guiding you from the field to the computer, he reveals how to create superb nature and landscape photographs with your digital camera. Lenses, lighting, and much more are discussed for the professional and amateur alike. Filled with helpful tips and tricks, this comprehensive volume will hone your technique while expanding your creativity. The ultimate guide for outdoor photographers making the leap to digital! Boyd Norton is an internationally renowned outdoor photographer and writer. He has traveled extensively in documenting the world’s wild places and environmental issues. His previous books include the best-selling The Art of Outdoor Photography and Backroads of Colorado. His articles and photo essays have appeared in Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Outside, Reader’s Digest, and the New York Times. Norton lives in Evergreen, Colorado. |
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Boyd Norton’s Outdoor Digital Photography Handbook: How to Shoot Like a Pro $24.99 Pro photographer Boyd Norton provides expert advice and hard-won secrets on digital wildlife, landscape, and nature photography. Guiding you from the field to the computer, he reveals how to create superb nature and landscape photographs with your digital camera. Lenses, lighting, and much more are discussed for the professional and amateur alike. Filled with helpful tips and tricks, this comprehensive volume will hone your technique while expanding your creativity. The ultimate guide for outdoor photographers making the leap to digital! Boyd Norton is an internationally renowned outdoor photographer and writer. He has traveled extensively in documenting the world’s wild places and environmental issues. His previous books include the best-selling The Art of Outdoor Photography and Backroads of Colorado. His articles and photo essays have appeared in Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Outside, Reader’s Digest, and the New York Times. Norton lives in Evergreen, Colorado. |
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Brassai: Paris by Night $45 Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassaï created arresting images of the city’s dramatic nocturnal landscape. The back alleys, metro stations, and bistros he photographed are at turns hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers. Paris by Night, first published in French in 1932, collected sixty of these images, which have since become photographic icons. This new edition brings one of Brassaï’s finest works back into print. Beautifully presented, Paris by Night is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer. Author Biography: One of the most important and influential photographers of the twentieth century, Brassaï (1899-1984) moved to Paris from Hungary in 1924. He is best known for artfully chronicling the city in the 1930s and for his classic portraits of such artists as Picasso, Matisse, and the Surrealists. |
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Bryce Canyon: A Visual Interpretation $0.99 Used – Lavishly illustrated with the full-color imagery of America’s leading landscape photographers — yet bargain priced! Each title includes captions and a concise essay on the natural and human histories of the subject.Most titles include local and/or regional maps, suggested reading list, and illustrations explaining geology, plant zones, etc. |
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California Gardens $55 With its lush photographs and authoritative text this definitive history captures the exuberant past and dynamic present of the California garden. Ranging from the pragmatic plantings of the Spanish missions through Victorian fantasies and Hollywood extravagances and culminating in up-to-the-minute drought-tolerant gardens, California Gardens: Creating a New Eden provides a thought-provoking, eye-dazzling chronicle of the state’s diverse garden traditions. Offering ideas and examples that will inspire all gardeners and garden lovers, David C. Streatfield recounts how amateurs, architects, landscape designers, and nurserymen have created the gardens of their dreams. His ground-breaking text – in preparation for over twenty years – illuminates how California’s ecology, economy, and the importation of exotic plants and styles have shaped its gardens and ultimately influenced garden design around the world. The various ways that landscape architecture and architecture have intertwined in the last two centuries are explored with particular insightfulness. Some of the finest architects and landscape architects of this century – Charles and Henry Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Thomas Church, Lockwood de Forest, Garrett Eckbo, and Florence Yoch – have shaped the landscape of California in distinctive ways. Contemporary and historical color photographs by some of the country’s best garden photographers are complemented by rare black-and-white archival illustrations and detailed plans. Two invaluable appendices provide biographies of the major designers and information about visiting the public gardens cited in the book. |
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Camera Craft: Landscapes $0.99 Used – From a close up of a flower that captures its rich color and delicate petals to a wide shot of a foggy mountain lake (complete with reflections in the water), good landscape photography demands planning, vision, and technical skill. With excellent images, accompanied by detailed and fascinating commentary, you can learn to take beautiful photographs of nature, too. Several top photographers reveal their artistic secrets, explaining what they saw, how they visualized the picture, and how t |
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Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome $39.95 Used – Stunning images of an extraordinary and endangered landscape from one of America’s finest photographers. Sternfeld’s magnificent photographs capture juxtapositions of Rome’s past and present–tombs, villas, arches coexisting with apartment houses, malls, and the blight of the modern city. 2 maps. 88 color photographs (including 7 gatefolds). |
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Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome $315.34 New – Stunning images of an extraordinary and endangered landscape from one of America’s finest photographers. Sternfeld’s magnificent photographs capture juxtapositions of Rome’s past and present–tombs, villas, arches coexisting with apartment houses, malls, and the blight of the modern city. 2 maps. 88 color photographs (including 7 gatefolds). |
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Canada $39.95 A spectacular exploration of familiar places and seldom-seen treasures. This lush book captures Canada from its southern border to the shores of the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic oceans, sweeping readers on a tour of the diverse landscapes in between, in 200 full-color photographs by the country’s best photographers. Each page holds a new vista: the jagged peaks, delicate alpine flowers, and stunning glaciers of the Rockies; the rugged Canadian Shield and sprawling boreal forest much as they were centuries ago; the ancient First Nations totems of British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands. For those who’ve visited these places, this book is a breathtaking album of memories. For those who’ve yet to explore the country, Canada: A Visual Journey is the sightseeing tour of a lifetime. Darwin Wiggett, Thomas Kitchin, Victoria Hurst, Mike Grandmaison, Wayne Lynch, Richard Hartmier, and Alan Sirulnikoff: the photo credits of Canada: A Visual Journey presents a who’s who of Canadian landscape and wildlife photography. Wander with them into the incomparable places the nation has to offer. |
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Canadian Panorama 2009 $66.95 New – Canada is a land of extraordinary geography and scenery, heart-stopping in its beauty and diversity. The panoramic camera uses an extremely wide angle of vision to capture the full sweep of a landscape. Clearly the two — country and camera — were made for each other. In Canadian Panorama 2009, acclaimed photographers have captured not only the breadth of an entire country, but also the scope of each scene. This remarkable calendar presents a series of spectacular images, and turns even |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS Lens + Filters + Case + Tripod + Kit for EOS 50D, 60D, 7D, XS, XSi, T1i, T2i $249.95 Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens A super-sharp compact and light telephoto zoom featuring Canons Optical Image Stabilizer. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses) and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second with Canons 4-stop stabilization correction you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. The EF-S 55-250mm IS also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. This EF-S telephoto lens with great features delivers excellent performance at an affordable price for all photographers. Key Features: 55-250mm f/4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f/4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400mm on a 35mm camera lens this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens. EF-S Mount A derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus whic |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS Lens + Filters + Hood + Cleaning Kit for EOS 50D, 60D, 7D, XS, XSi, T1i, T2i $219.95 Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens A super-sharp compact and light telephoto zoom featuring Canons Optical Image Stabilizer. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses) and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second with Canons 4-stop stabilization correction you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. The EF-S 55-250mm IS also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. This EF-S telephoto lens with great features delivers excellent performance at an affordable price for all photographers. Key Features: 55-250mm f/4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f/4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400mm on a 35mm camera lens this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens. EF-S Mount A derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus whic |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS Lens + Filters + Hood + Pouch + Kit for EOS 50D, 60D, 7D, XS, XSi, T1i, T2i $219.95 Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens A super-sharp compact and light telephoto zoom featuring Canons Optical Image Stabilizer. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses) and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second with Canons 4-stop stabilization correction you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. The EF-S 55-250mm IS also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. This EF-S telephoto lens with great features delivers excellent performance at an affordable price for all photographers. Key Features: 55-250mm f/4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f/4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400mm on a 35mm camera lens this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens. EF-S Mount A derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus whic |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Lens + Case + Lens Hood + Accessory Kit for EOS Digital SLR Cameras $229.95 The Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS telephoto Zoom Lens is designed with Canons Optical Image Stabilizer technology while retaining compactness and lightness in response to demands of photographers. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses) and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second with Canons 4-stop stabilization correction you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. It also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Key Features: 55-250mm f4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens with a telescopic range covering a zoom range equivalent to 88 to 400 mm With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400 mm on a 35 mm camera lens this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens. EF-S Mount A derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus which means that the rear element of |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Lens + Hoya UV Filter + Accessory Kit for EOS Digital SLR Cameras $199.95 The Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS telephoto Zoom Lens is designed with Canons Optical Image Stabilizer technology while retaining compactness and lightness in response to demands of photographers. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses) and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second with Canons 4-stop stabilization correction you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. It also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Key Features: 55-250mm f4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens with a telescopic range covering a zoom range equivalent to 88 to 400 mm With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400 mm on a 35 mm camera lens this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens. EF-S Mount A derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus which means that the rear element of |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Zoom Lens + Case + Tripod + Accessories for EOS Digital SLR Cameras $239.95 The Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS telephoto Zoom Lens is designed with Canons Optical Image Stabilizer technology while retaining compactness and lightness in response to demands of photographers. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses) and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second with Canons 4-stop stabilization correction you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. It also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Key Features: 55-250mm f4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens with a telescopic range covering a zoom range equivalent to 88 to 400 mm With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400 mm on a 35 mm camera lens this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens. EF-S Mount A derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus which means that the rear element of |
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Zoom Lens with UV Filter + Cleaning Kit $199.95 The Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS telephoto Zoom Lens is designed with Canon’s Optical Image Stabilizer technology while retaining compactness and lightness, in response to demands of photographers. This high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format (when used on Canon EOS cameras compatible with EF-S lenses), and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. In other words, if the slowest shutter speed you could formerly hold a 250mm lens steadily was 1/250th of a second, with Canon’s 4-stop stabilization correction, you could hand-hold at shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th of a second. It also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Key Features:55-250mm f4.0-3.5 Telephoto High-Performance Lens with a telescopic range covering a zoom range equivalent to 88 to 400 mm With 12 elements in 10 groups including UD glass elements are used to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. Best-in-class f4.0-3.5 brightness and high picture quality combine to ensure high imaging performance with improved sharpness and contrast all over the zooming range. An improved lens coating reduces glare when shooting against the light and minimizes ghosts and flare. In addition, with coverage that extends to the super-telescopic domain equivalent to 400 mm on a 35 mm camera lens, this lens makes it possible to capture the motion of a distant subject or take spectacular landscape images by taking advantage of the compression effect produced by telescopic lens.EF-S MountA derivative of the EF lens mount created for a subset of Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with APS-C sized image sensors. Cameras supporting the EF-S mount are backward-compatible with the EF lens mount. The S in EF-S stands for short back focus , which means that the rear element of the |
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Canon EOS-1DS Mark III Digital Field Guide $24.99 It’’s a powerful camera. Put all that power to work.The Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III is a serious camera with the powerful features that sports and portrait photographers and photojournalists need. Here, professional photographer John Kraus shows you how to take full advantage of the camera’’s full-frame sensor, navigate its controls, get creative with its modes and settings, and use it with confidence for every type of shoot. The more you know about your camera’’s capabilities, the better the results you can achieve.Become familiar with the operating speed, lenses, large-file imagery, improved viewing system, and moreLearn to choose the best settings when preparing for a shootExplore tethered shooting options and effective use of EOS SpeedlitesGet in-depth guidance for advertising, editorial, or architectural shots; portraits; and event and landscape photography |
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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Digital Field Guide $24.99 It’s a powerful camera. Put all that power to work.The Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III is a serious camera with the powerful features that sports and portrait photographers and photojournalists need. Here, professional photographer John Kraus shows you how to take full advantage of the camera’s full-frame sensor, navigate its controls, get creative with its modes and settings, and use it with confidence for every type of shoot. The more you know about your camera’s capabilities, the better the results you can achieve.Become familiar with the operating speed, lenses, large-file imagery, improved viewing system, and moreLearn to choose the best settings when preparing for a shootExplore tethered shooting options and effective use of EOS SpeedlitesGet in-depth guidance for advertising, editorial, or architectural shots; portraits; and event and landscape photography |
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Canticle of the Earth $156.2 New – The time-honored song of praise by St. Francis is brought colorfully to life through 70 stunning, evocative full-color photographs by master landscape and wilderness photographers, David Muench and Marc Muench. Their photography celebrates the earth and the spiritual forces of nature, making it a natural companion to the words of St. Francis. Anyone who finds a kinship and spiritual presence in the natural world will discover here a source of inspiration and deep contemplation. Booksellers |
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Capturing the Light: An Inspirational and Instructional Guide to Landscape Photography $9.99 Used – Photographers can see the light–and learn how to capture it–with this outstanding collection that showcases Peter Watson’s impressive, sparkling, and perfectly lit landscapes. Peter discusses the camera, lens, and film he used, gives the exact exposure time, provides insights into filters and polarizers, and even reveals how long he had to wait before getting the right light. With its fascinating insight into the life of a professional and its invaluable guidance, this is an essential a |