Название: Epic Landscape Photography: A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography
Автор: Elliot McGucken
Издательство: ‎Independently Published
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 22 Мб
Язык: английский / English

There exist many wonderful books on landscape photography, but this one invites the reader to aim higher via EPIC Landscape Photography. “Story is the soul of the work,” Aristotle reminds us, and as the soul alone is immortal, we must shoot for the soul so as to create lasting art. Dr. E invites the photographer to see themselves as a participant in a greater story, as they seek to photograph the soul of the landscape so as to exalt its poetry—its Epic Spirit--in art. Sergio Leone stated that the greatest writer of Westerns was Homer, and is it no wonder then, that the landscape photography in his film The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly was most Epic? It is because he was shooting for the grand, Homeric soul, and so too shall we.

Epic: adjective: noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem. The book teaches far more by showing than by merely telling. Not only are detailed settings shared for over seventy of Dr. E’s fine art photographs, but so are Dr. E's detailed thoughts and philosophies on "getting the shot."