Photographing Creative Landscapes: Simple Tools for Artistic Images and Enhanced Creativity [Paperback]

Michael Orton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2001

Combining inspiration, experience, and technique, this guide to landscape photography goes beyond traditional realistic landscapes and teaches photographers to create their own impressionistic images of the natural world. Instructions are provided for such camera techniques as lens movement, lighting, filtration, and creative exposure, so that photographers can manipulate their images to have dreamlike qualities. Darkroom techniques such as sandwiching negatives, controlling contrast and grain, and color control can be used on their own or with the camera techniques to yield spectacular results.

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About the Author

Michael Orton is the author and photographer of Once Upon an Island and Images of Vancouver Island. He lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584280484
• ISBN-13: 978-1584280484
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enthusiastically recommended for students of photography, October 8, 2001

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This review is from: Photographing Creative Landscapes: Simple Tools for Artistic Images and Enhanced Creativity (Paperback)

In Photographing Creative Landscapes: Simple Tools For Artistic Images And Enhanced Creativity, professional landscape photographer Michael Orton shows how to expand one's creativity and learn to photograph artistic images drawn from the world that surrounds us. He shows how to develop a more artistic approach to photography, expand options for photographing the landscape, how to apply creative photographic controls to any image, as well as find sources of creative inspiration and using them to improve photographic works. Orton also draws upon his many years of expertise and experience to show how to use color to capture mood and emotion; add motion for dynamic images; capture subtle details; the dramatic use of natural light; adding flash for artistic effects; incorporation multiple exposures and sandwiched images for a "painterly" look. Photographing Creative Landscapes is enthusiastically recommended for students of photography in general, and photography buffs seeking to improve their images of natural landscapes in particular.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Photographing Creative Landscapes by Michael Orton, January 9, 2007

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PJ Venter (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photographing Creative Landscapes: Simple Tools for Artistic Images and Enhanced Creativity (Paperback)

I found the book very interesting and helpful. It challenges and motivates the reader to be creative when indulging in photography, thus rising above the level of record-type shotmaking. It is not a technical "how-to" book although many technical guide lines are given, often succintly.
However, the book is somewhat dated in as much as it refers extensively to Orton's slide sandwiching techniques. More examples and discussion of digital photographic techniques would be welcome.
Overall it is a book that should be of value to any amateur landscape photographer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, August 13, 2006

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William G. Mccary (Rome, Ga) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photographing Creative Landscapes: Simple Tools for Artistic Images and Enhanced Creativity (Paperback)

This is a super book for the advanced photographer. I doesn't teach you nuts and bolts, but makes you think outside the box of normal photography. It teaches you the creative side of it. If you love photography this is a must have....