Beginner Tips for Urban Landscape Photography
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- 24 Apr 2023
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Urban landscapes are a fascinating form of photography to capture and view. With urban landscape photography, we can combine architectural photography with urban photography ideas and create pics ranging from fine art to journalism.
What is involved in making urban landscape photography images? Is it similar to natural landscape and wildlife photography? What techniques fit best with urban landscape photography? Are there any cautions for making urban landscapes?
I’ll touch on each subject with tips and ideas and show you a great method of displaying your urban landscape photography as wall art. Finally, I’ll show some ideas for making money from your urban photography.
What Is Urban Landscape Photography?
So, what exactly is urban landscape photography? Its landscape photography primarily focused on man-made objects - large or small cities and towns and the things in them that have visual interest.
When searching for landscape photography ideas, you will often find sites with expansive vistas of mountains, forests, the oceanside, streams, rolling fields of wildflowers, and so on. But you can also include close-up views of natural things.
Similarly, with urban landscape photography, a panoramic view of a downtown scene with skyscrapers, as in the opening image of London, is definitely urban landscape photography, but so is a neighborhood of houses, a shopping mall (inside or out), a strip center of storefronts like the Venice Beach pic above, or a lone mailbox or fire hydrant.
Whether purposefully designed and commissioned or created as graffiti, a wall mural can be captured and then seen as a form of fine art, street photography, or gritty photojournalism. Subtle changes in composition or exposure can significantly affect how the final image is perceived.
Architectural photography subjects fall under the urban landscape photography umbrella, even if the image is abstract or a small slice of a larger structure. The row of broken doors in front of graffiti in Norman, Oklahoma, above could be street photography, architectural, or almost abstract. Read More…
