36 Stunning Examples of Landscape Photography
By Lee Milthorpe on April 6, 2009
Over the past week we have published a series of articles relating to landscape photography, with tips and tutorials to help you improve your own landscape shots. Today we bring the series to a close with an inspiration post, full of stunning landscape scenes from three extremely talented photographers, that will hopefully give you new ideas or inspire you to get out there with your gear and get some brilliant photographs of your own!
Patrick Smith
San Francisco based photographer, Patrick Smith shoots wonderful landscape scenes, often with perfect fluffy waters and brilliantly lit rock faces.
Katarina Stefanović
The unique style of Katarina is what makes her photographs stand out, with vivid colours in every shot and sweeping lines leading your eye through the scenes.
Lucie Debelkova
Prague born Lucie decided to travel the world looking for new exciting locations to photograph and it pays off in her work as she captures some breathtaking scenery.
That concludes our landscape photography series. I hope you found these tutorials interesting and useful, it would be great to hear your feedback. We will be publishing a new series of articles in the coming months and as always, there will be regular tutorials, showcases and personal stories so if you haven’t already done so, subscribe to the RSS Feed to ensure you don’t miss a thing!
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any non overphotoshopped examples? thanks
There’s only a couple in there that have had a fair bit of post-processing done to them, the rest are all straight from the camera.
I know Patrick Smith likes to get his shots perfect without needing to edit them and only displays his best work so what you see there is all just natural, no Photoshopping whatsoever!
Wonderful, Amazing & Brilliant Shots.
To my eyes quite a lot of processing – too vivid colours, too p-shopped, supernatural.
Great post to end the series!
All are taken with really high end, very good quality dslr… I suppose… BUT the pics are stunning
In response to the complaints of post processing, take a look at my work, totally natural.
Fantastic, superb,sublime,par excellence,candid, vivid,unforgettable masterpieces each in its own. Eager to see see more such great works.
With great regards
Sarmavvs
sometimes photoshop can be used to let the viewer see what the camera cannot. Especially since the camera can only see like 5ev and our eyes can see 20 ev. My point is… photoshop and other postprocessing tools can be used correctly without actually “manipulating” anything.
*such as…most of the images above.
Way too processed for my taste. I adjust my exposure occasionally, crop, flip to monochromatic but I really dislike these over-produced, over-processed images. I think that we should separate these images from true photography because there is a place for these images – the individuals who’ve worked hard to create their art – it’s important to respect and acknowledge that. Then there are photographs straight from the camera (digital or film) where very little has been done. I think that 2 separate and distinct fields are developing.
I have to say Wow what awesome photos. I myself did not see alot of PS, they looked very natural and very gorgeous. Great work and thank you for sharing.
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Candy
beautiful
Dude that rocks
I love the images posted here… Very Inspiring. The colors are beautifully vivid, even if by pshop, it’s part of the creativity. There’s obviously alot of skill and natural creative instinct taking place from these photogs as can be seen by composition, sharpness, etc. I appreciate their work… thanks! : ) I tend to chase big cumulus clouds myself… it really lends.
Could you label the ones that are HDR/Post processed vs. the one that are not for a true comparison of what is possible
Cheers
nice one!
Cool shots! Love it!
absolutely incredible shots!
It’s very interesting to read the comments on these images. There is a clear dichotomy between photographers that understand what their equipment is capable of, and the novice that believes any vivid images are “shopped”.
It begs the question: If you were to show a group of young people a collection of Ansel Adams images, without using his name, how many would think they were done in Photoshop?
That’s a great comment Jason!
It could be interesting to to do a survey on that to actually find the answer.
many of these are beautiful shots but from our long experience in the businesses are unfortunately equit over photoshopped! This isn’t to say it’s a problem – a lot of shops both online and off tend to like the “glossy” nature of heavily post-processed pictures, but many other people like to see genuine “organic” pictures.
I see nothing wrong with photoshop processing. It’s the end result that counts. Use you judgment to decide if photoshop enhances or spoils the image. Can anyone pinpoint the true reason why there seems to be, among some photographers, and deep dislike and mistrust for using photoshop as another interesting tool?
I believe PS is just another tool in the art process. If we look at a painting do we scorn the overt use of colour or manipulation of what was real. In the same sense a photographic artist uses all the available tools to create art – whether it be minimalist or use of colour to create what THAT PERSON wants. It is art.
2 photoshop or not that is the question. I use to use film and would often be let down by the post processing so photoshop gives back control
Is it still photography?
i dnt think all the images are post processed few of them are just so mesmerizing n its really possible on the twilight time its also possible with the polarizer filters. nice viewing all the images..
Thank you for posting these images! They are incredible. I am not a fan of photos that look overly photoshopped and I most of these really don’t seem that way to me. I have been getting inspired by Peter Lik’s landscapes. Check out his blog if you haven’t already: http://blog.peterlik.com/
They are incredible but they look a lil over photoshopped
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