Table of Contents
Landscape Photography Looks So Easy
Viewing a Print vs. Viewing Reality
In Search of Extraordinary Landscapes
Using a Map to Help Visualize Photographs
The Art and Science of Composing Compelling Images
The Essentials of Graphic Design
The Four Basic Exposure Strategies
The Limiting Factor Exposure Strategy
The Universal Exposure Strategy
Digital Capture and Processing of High-Contrast Scenes
How our Visual System Processes High-Contrast Scenes
Capturing Rembrandt Solution Images in the Field
Merging the Images in Photoshop
Smart Objects and the Masks Panel
Final Thoughts on the Rembrandt Solution
HDR: Great Potential, Many Pitfalls
Final Thoughts on Realism and HDR
Setting up a Single-Row Panorama
Camera Settings for Single-Row Panoramas
Shooting and Processing High-Contrast Panoramas
Depth of Field for Selected Lenses Focused at Infinity
Focusing and Composing at Night
Can Night Photographs be Authentic?
The Psychology of the Compelling Landscape