Landscape Photography in the Digital Age with Joseph Meehan Mar 14, 2010

© Palm Beach Photographic Centre

Members: $120 • Non-members: $170 • Prerequisites: None

Space Limited to 12 participants.

Description

Of all the subjects in photography, the landscape offers the photographer the widest range of opportunities in terms of different lighting, elements of composition, styles of interpretation and equipment choices. Landscape photography has undergone a number of dramatic changes in the digital age such that today’s digital photographer has even more options available both at the camera stage and in the computer. This has resulted in new forms of creative expression. This seminar reviews many of the digital options now available and explores how these options can lead to different forms of expression and even the development of a distinctive style in landscape photography.
 
Among the techniques covered: Traditional landscape compositions, High Dynamic Range  (HDR) photography, digital infrared photography, panoramic photography without a panoramic camera, special digital filtration techniques, landscape software methods for maximum quality and the digital control of depth of field. There is also an exploration of alternative landscape styles including minimalist compositions, the Pictorial mindset, the use of motion and the wonderful world of “B” as in extraordinary long exposures using the bulb setting. All techniques will be illustrated using over 200 images with handouts containing important “how-to” information and references.

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Biography

Joseph Meehan has been a professional photographer, writer and teacher for more than 35 years. Over a thousand of his images have appeared in books, magazines and advertisements as well as on Web sites all over the world. Meehan’s work has been profiled in many photography magazines including, Popular Photography, Outdoor Photography, View Camera Magazine, Shutterbug and the British Journal of Photography. He was also the Senior Technical Editor of Photo District News for over a decade, and the editor of the UK publication, The Photography Yearbook. In addition, he has written 25 books on photographic technique, several of which have received awards as well as being published in multiple languages.

You can visit his website at www.josephmeehan.com