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An earlier post mentioned Group F64. I don't know if Minor White was a member of this group or not, but he's a great one to check out for inspiration. His landscapes were quite different from the norm at the time he was active. He used infrared film a lot. Also a lot of work around the California and Oregon ocean front. He was a poet and a Buddhist so you can see he might be a little more quirky than the average.
Edward Weston was an F64 member. His stuff and his son Brett's landscapes are also decidely different than Ansel's.
A good current source is a periodical called "LensWork". Specialty magazine shops sometimes carry it.
Ansel Adam's comes in these days for a lot of criticism but his contemporaries respected him highly. If you want to do good landscapes, you can't do better than reading about his technique, largely written about in his book The Negative. If you ever get a chance to see actual prints of his (or any of the other masters), do it, it is a totally different experience than seeing a reproduction. A visit to one of his shows at the end of his life certainly inspired me.
Edward Weston was an F64 member. His stuff and his son Brett's landscapes are also decidely different than Ansel's.
A good current source is a periodical called "LensWork". Specialty magazine shops sometimes carry it.
Ansel Adam's comes in these days for a lot of criticism but his contemporaries respected him highly. If you want to do good landscapes, you can't do better than reading about his technique, largely written about in his book The Negative. If you ever get a chance to see actual prints of his (or any of the other masters), do it, it is a totally different experience than seeing a reproduction. A visit to one of his shows at the end of his life certainly inspired me.
