Visual Literacy in Landscape Photography—Course Preview
Tony SweetDescription
In this course you will learn how to make the most of the subject matter that you find, along with adapting to the weather and light conditions of any given day. You’ll also learn tips for selecting settings, camera angles, and compositions, and the options you have for each.
In this course, professional photographer Tony Sweet takes you to several locations deep in the Smoky Mountains and instructs you on how to use whatever subject matter you find as well as the weather and natural light you have to work with to make stunning photographs. He shows you how to photograph scenic trees, fences, and greenery at dawn, using the sun to light up the edges of the scene. He shows you how he tries different camera settings, camera angles, elevations, and composition, then changes them all to try something else on the same subject matter. Then he shares his end results, so you can see for yourself the different effects those simple changes can have on your own shots.
See all of the videos in our Visual Literacy in Landscape Photography Course:
- Visual Literacy in Landscape Photography—Course Preview
- Nature Photography Tips while Shooting Sparks Lane
- Outdoor Photography at Lea Valley in the Great Smoky Mountains
- Nature Photography Tips for the Great Smoky Mountains
- Cabin Photography Tips from the Smoky Mountains
- Overcast Photography in the Great Smoky Mountains
- Take Great Macro Photos in Nature
- Long Exposure Photography in the Great Smoky Mountains
- Photographing at Clingman’s Dome
- Bonus—Tony’s Portfolio
The Smokey Mountains are the most visited national park in the country, and one of the most photographed I'm sure It's classic Smokey stuff. Wow. Every professional I know who conducts workshops here finds this to be a very fertile and very easy venue to photograph in. You want to have some movements show up. That's pretty nice right in there actually. Got a little bit of green, got a little bit of reflection. Get the tree at the very top right. Balance that out against That's good. Okay, these are brackets bracketing down by a third each time. Yeah, we're pretty good. I've been here for the last every year two or three times a year for the last 10 years, and I find it new and exciting every time I show up. One of the great shots here is at Treemont. This specific shot framing the water coming through these trees. Perfect frame. One of the tricks here is that real hotspot of water right there, you want to put that tree branch a little patch of green right in front of that hotspot. So it doesn't get like really blown out, you know? So we're going to do this right now. I'm going to meter that. Again I use pop meter a lot. The key thing is to always expect the unexpected.
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