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Landscape Photography: Start to Finish

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Overview


It’s one thing to learn how your camera works and study the theory behind landscape photography; it’s quite another to put your knowledge into practice out in the field. Take this class, and you will learn everything you need to know about taking amazing photos of the great outdoors - and turn them into beautiful display-worthy masterpieces.

Join professional landscape and outdoor photographer Matt Kloskowski for this class, and you’ll learn:

  • How to use composition and proper lighting to shoot landscape and outdoor photographs.
  • How to get your images from camera to computer, and how to pick out the best of them.
  • How to enhance your images through Lightroom® and Photoshop®
Matt Kloskowski is a Sony® Artisan of Imagery, and the author of 15 books on post-processing in Adobe® Lightroom® and Photoshop®. In this class, he will walk you through everything that he does to plan his outdoor shoots, select his gear, capture great shots, and post-process his images to evoke the beauty and grandeur of the outdoors.


Syllabus

  • Course Introduction
  • 5 Things Every Landscape Photographer Should Know
  • Camera Gear
  • Gear Q & A
  • On Location: Weather & Safety
  • On Location Pre-Visualzation Sutro Baths
  • On Location: Camera Settings
  • On Location: Composition
  • Matt Klowskowski - My Story
  • On Location: Bracketing
  • On Location: Artistic Choices
  • On Location: Pre-Visualzation Marshall's Beach
  • On Location: Long Exposure
  • On Location: iPhone
  • On Location: Wrap Location
  • Location Challenges: How to Shoot in Open Sun with No Clouds
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Cloudy, Stormy, & Blah Weather
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Beaches
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Waterfalls
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Panorama Vista Scenes
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Lakes
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Mountains
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Deserts
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow
  • Location Challenges: How to shoot Backlit Situations
  • Outdoor Landscape Workflow & Organization
  • Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 1
  • Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 2
  • Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 1
  • Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 2
  • HDR for Landscape Photography
  • Panoramas for Landscape Photography
  • How to shoot Landscape with Adobe Photoshop in Mind
  • Sky Replacement in Photoshop
  • Processing Project: Stormy Mountains
  • Processing Project: Crashing Waves on the Rocks
  • Processing Student Raw Images
  • Final Q&A

Taught by

Matt Kloskowski

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