Learn Fine Art Landscape Photography

The fine art landscape photograph is a product of Photoshop, not the camera. The camera is used only as a recording device to capture the exposures, the assets for Photoshop. These two types of asset. Technical assets for print quality and artistic assets for aesthetic quality. The building blocks to construct fine artistic images.

The exposures are edited then composited together to create a single image that represents a perfect raw file as if taken by the camera. Technically perfect in having beautiful rich shadow detail, artistically perfect in that it contains all the content and light to create the fine art landscape you want but could not capture in one frame.

Technical perfection means doing everything possible to make the fine art landscape look ‘real’. We create the three-dimensional illusion of reality; light, form, texture, and spatial depth along with ‘super readable’, sharp, detail everywhere in the photograph. This serves as a perfect solid foundation to overlay the final artistic treatment.

Artistic perfection means doing everything possible to make the fine art landscape NOT look ‘real’, but be your own unique, personal artistic interpretation. Radical and unrealistic artistic treatments can be made but the fine art photograph still ‘works’ because of the strong underlying illusion of reality created in the previous step.

A structured fine art photography workflow makes it easy to teach because I designed the fine art workflow myself over years of research and refinement.

A structured fine art photography workflow makes it easy to learn because it is broken into the four logical steps, each step sub-divided into specific subjects.

A structured fine art photography workflow makes it easy to use because it is easy to remember. Each step having clarity of purpose, yet methodical overall.