A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. RosaliePainting by Albert Bierstadt

In the mid 18th century, romanticism in landscapes was portrayed through paintings. Artists like Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and Caspar David Friedrich are important figures in the Romantic movement, creating paintings that captured melodramatic scenery to initiate emotion, and a feeling of awe in the viewer.

1. Auto Focus – The camera will automatically focus the image after pressing the shutter half way.

2. Manual Focus – By twisting the front part of the lens, you can manually focus or blur certain areas of the image.

3.White Balance – The process of removing unrealistic colour casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white inthe photo.

4. ISO – Measures the sensitivity of the image sensor.

5. Aperture – Refers to an adjustable opening in your camera lens that is able to limit the amount of light passing through the lens and hitting the camera sensor.

6. Focal Length – The focal length of the lens is the distance between the lens and the image sensor when the subject is in focus e.g the standard cameralens with a focal length of 18-55mm

7. Depth of Field – Depth of field is the distance between the closest and farthest objects in a photo that appears focused/ clear.

8. Slow / fast Shutter Speed – When taking photos of fast moving things such as a runner, a fast shutter speed will be used in order to capture them clearly. Whereas, a slower shutter speed allows the lens to record more light over a longer period of time. 

9. Exposure and exposure compensation – Exposure compensation is used to alter exposure from the value selected by the camera, making photographs brighter or darker. 
Exposure – The amount of light the camera/ lens allows to pass through.

10. Exposure bracketing – This is a technoque used by many photographers; where they will take multiple photos of the same thing, but change the exposure each time. So when editing the images can be combied to show both colour and textures/ objects/ shadows.

What:

Romantic, landscape environments. Cliff faces, caves, woodlands, the sea and sand (beaches).

When:

Mornings, afternoons, leading into the evening – avoids harsh light from the middle of the day and allows for a different atmosphere and setting when the sun begins to set.

Where:

Possible locations:
Sorel point,
Grosnez,
Plémont Beach,
La Corbière,
Blanches Banques (sand dunes)

Why:

I’ve chosen to do this photoshoot with these locations to relate it back to the research and topic of Romanticism within landscape photographs we’ve been studying. I’ve chosen a variety of natural environments for my shoot in order to cover the different emotional responses that come from the power of nature and the sublime.

How:

Equipment:
– 2x Lens
– Tripod
Use of tripod to keep the camera static when using slower shutter speeds and to keep the camera view the same when exposure bracketing (to create hdr images).
Different lenses to have the optimum focal range and depth.

I’m aiming to purposely over-exposing and underexposing a group of images to build up layers for some hdr photos.
Checking the weather forecast (Wind strength, sunset, tides etc.) to work out the right locations for each condition.
– For example, when the wind is quite strong I might go to the cliffs or by the sea to photograph the effect of the waves on the coast.

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Romanticism in Landscape photography is all about reflecting and showing the power of nature and the environment. The romantic movement began in late 18th to early 19th century. Romanticism was not about harmony, peace and balance but more about the emotions and sometimes even irrational emotions that the artists may have, or even their experiences.

In terms of Photography it is seemed to be unpredictable and uncontrollable, this type of photography is seen to be interpreted in various ways and formats; such as beautiful, quiet and sometimes sensual. but also ” dark, stormy, with a foreboding spirit “

Due to the start of the Industrial revolution many people wanted to fight back which triggered the era of romanticism, this allowed photographers to focus on the power of nature and the places in the world that we still had “little human impact”.

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Aperture:

Is the opening of the lens to see how much of the light will enter the camera sensor. If the camera is in a dark environment then the opening of camera will be largely opened; whereas if the camera is in an environment with light then the opening wont be as large as the dark environment. The amount in which the camera is opened is determined by the f-stops. Here in f/2.8 it is clear that a lot of light is entering the light sensor. On f/16 there is hardly any light entering the light sensor therefore this f stop is better made for a light and bright environment.

Depth of Field:

Depth of field is the distance between the farthest and closest objects in an image that appears acceptably sharp.

Our Photography

After Taking these pictures I unfortunately realized that most of the images were underexposed.

This was my favorite image as although the image is under exposed due to me using a shutter speed of around f/22 the image was clear you are able to see the light shining on the pens which I think creates a nice contrast.