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Author(s): Marc Muench
ISBN(s): 9781933952536, 1933952539
Edition: 1st ed
File Details: PDF, 116.85 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1933952539 
ISBN 13: 9781933952536
Author: Marc Muench

Over the years, photographers have come to know one thing is certain in the landscape photography world: there are places in America that have become icons of the landscape. This book focuses on a few places that have become such a draw, almost as if the rocks and trees have demanded to be photographed.As a third generation landscape photographer, Marc Muench has been fortunate to be one photographer that has lived the experience, explored the regions, lugged the large cameras, waited for the light, and, in a few cases, photographed a unique location for the first time. Marc discusses how landscape photography is more than simply an exploration of the landscape, but is also an exploration of your equipment and, ultimately, of yourself.The question is asked over and over: what is it that makes your heart beat faster and your blood begin to rush, leading you to reach for your camera? Muench believes the answers to this question are buried in the many stories of what landscape photographers have been doing over the past fifty years. He writes about his stories, his father’s stories, and his grandfather’s stories; and he shares the images that have, in a way, become what people around the world think of when they imagine what the more dramatic America looks like.An entire section of this book is devoted to the technical aspects of landscape photography, including what equipment to use, techniques for working with environmental conditions, and easy to understand step-by-step lessons on image optimization using Photoshop and other tools.Muench’s stunning images will inspire anyone who picks up this book, and photographers from the amateur to the professional level will learn how they too can find, capture, and process their own amazing landscape images.Foreword by Katrin Eismann

Exploring North American Landscapes 1st Table of contents:

I. EXPLORATIONS AND VISIONS

  1. Philosophy of Photography

  2. The Secret Gene

  3. The Decisive Placement

    • The Warm-Up

    • The Divine Angle

    • Catching the Perfect Wave

    • Inspired Moments

    • As Good as It Gets!

    • Heli Skiing in the Rockies

    • Risks and Rewards

  4. Chasing the Light

    • Getting Lucky

    • Catching the Light

    • Change

    • Chasing the Light

    • Shooting Directly into the Sun

    • Revealing the Light

  5. Evolving Methods

    • Panoramic Imagery

    • Seven-Stitch Pano in the Desert

    • Seven-Stitch Pano – Hawaii

    • Basic Steps to Stitching Images

    • Tilt/Shift for More

    • Still Time Lapses

    • Shooting Into the Sun

  6. Favorite Places

    • Sierra Nevada

    • Santa Barbara County

II. THE LESSONS
7. Making the Exposure

  • Regarding Contrast

  1. The Workflow

    • Step 1 – Logging

    • Step 2 – Selecting the Images

    • My Bridge Preferences

    • Step 3 – Post-Processing

    • Post-Production Basics

  2. Setting the Range

  3. Massaging the Middle

  • All Those Sliders

  • Two More Great Tools

  1. Quick Masking for Regional Dynamics

  • Learning to Decipher the Dynamic Range of a Scene

  • Calibrations and Profiles

  • Does Your Image Need Quick Masking?

  1. Real Color

  2. Manual HDR

  • What does HDR Mean: Hyper Digital Reflexes or High Dynamic Range?

  • Manual HDR: Is There Any Other Way?

  • HDR vs. SBR

  • Shooting for HDR Images

  • Camera Settings and Setup for Manually Exposing HDR

  • Camera Settings and Setup for Exposing HDR with Auto Bracket Feature

  • Capturing the Scene Manually

  • Capturing the Scene with the Auto Exposure Bracketing Feature

  • Combining Your Exposures

  • Brush Settings

  • Foreground and Background Colors

  1. More HDR

  • Quick and Easy Manual Override

  • Additional Steps If Desired

  • Auto Pixel Smashing with Photomatix or CS5 HDR Pro

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