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    Exploring North American Landscapes: Visions and Lessons in Digital Photography

    By Marc Muench

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    Over the years, photographers have come to know one thing is certain in the landscape photography world: there are places in America that have become icons of the landscape. This book focuses on a few places that have become such a draw, almost as if the rocks and trees have demanded to be photographed.

    As a third generation landscape photographer, Marc Muench has been fortunate to be one photographer that has lived the experience, explored the regions, lugged the large cameras, waited for the light, and, in a few cases, photographed a unique location for the first time. Marc discusses how landscape photography is more than simply an exploration of the landscape, but is also an exploration of your equipment and, ultimately, of yourself.

    The question is asked over and over: what is it that makes your heart beat faster and your blood begin to rush, leading you to reach for your camera? Muench believes the answers to this question are buried in the many stories of what landscape photographers have been doing over the past fifty years. He writes about his stories, his father's stories, and his grandfather's stories; and he shares the images that have, in a way, become what people around the world think of when they imagine what the more dramatic America looks like.

    An entire section of this book is devoted to the technical aspects of landscape photography, including what equipment to use, techniques for working with environmental conditions, and easy to understand step-by-step lessons on image optimization using Photoshop and other tools.

    Muench's stunning images will inspire anyone who picks up this book, and photographers from the amateur to the professional level will learn how they too can find, capture, and process their own amazing landscape images.
    Foreword by Katrin Eismann

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRocky Nook
    Release dateFeb 15, 2011
    ISBN9781457103391
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    • 5/5
      This is a modern digital photography textbook masquerading as a high quality coffee table art book. Book is split into a creative vision section followed by a specific lessons section. The balance is heavier on images than text but the combination is stunning. The apple did not fall far from the tree; as a long-time fan of David Muench's work I was delighted to see his son following in the "path less traveled". I look forward to many more books to come. Highly recommended for all students of modern digital landscape photography and to art lovers who just enjoy consuming scrumptious images.
    • 5/5
      I’m not convinced. Not completely. Not yet. The strongest case for me to investigate HDR (high dynamic range) imagery so far comes from Marc Muench. His latest book, Exploring North American Landscapes, will be released on Valentines Day 2011 by Rockynook.His explorations take him (and his readers) from his beloved Sierra Nevada Mountains to the swamps along the Natchez Trace in Mississippi. The journey continues to Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the Appalachian Trail in Virginia and on to the coast of Maine. And let’s not forget Alaska and Arizona, too.Part One of the book, “Explorations and Visions” includes six chapters covering his philosophy as an artist, his family tradition of professional photography, and a special chapter with images of his favorite places. The chapters are filled with personal stories and he details his impression of what makes photography art.Part Two is composed of eight lessons that help the reader understand how he is able to produce such technically brilliant and emotionally appealing images – time after time. Basics such as lighting and digital workflow are covered along with details on panoramic images and HDR. The lessons are laid out logically, usually step-by-step and easy to follow, understand, and apply. The one aspect of Exploring North American Landscapes we found inconvenient is the “Index of Feature Images” on the last page. There are no page numbers associated with the listings and they aren’t necessarily easy to find in the corresponding chapter by title alone.This writer’s philosophy has always been to try to get the image right in the camera and therefore need minimal post-production edits. Muench agrees, “I prefer capturing landscapes that appear so surreal in reality that no surreal processing is required.” However, many of his images appear to be products of HDR processing. The drama he is able to produce in his images may convince me to give HDR a try.Muench, a native of California, is currently the “artist-in-residence” at dgrin.com for Smugmug and active in their “Muench University”. He is also an editor for the National Park Service.