Chapter 7. THE INTIMATE LANDSCAPE
Isolating Elements
Selective Focus
Working with Moving Subject Matter
Close-Up Nature Photography
Abstract Nature Photography
Wildlife Photography
After you've made photographs of wide, sweeping vistas, it's time to get in closer. Photos of the "intimate landscape" bring the viewer into the scene for a feeling of immersion, of being surrounded by nature. Intimate landscape photos, as shown in 7-1, give you unlimited freedom to dramatically change the emphasis of a photograph with very slight adjustments to composition.
In this chapter, you learn how to isolate parts of the landscape, use selective focus to emphasize and de-emphasize elements in the frame, master the relationships between foreground and background, stop and blur motion, and apply special in-camera effects like zooming and panning. The chapter finishes with sections on wildlife, close-up, and abstract nature photography.
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