Exploring North American Landscapes: Visions and Lessons in Digital Photography (Paperback)

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

多年來，攝影師們已經確定在風景攝影界有一件事是肯定的：美國有一些地方已經成為風景的代表。這本書專注於一些已經成為繪畫吸引力的地方，幾乎可以說是岩石和樹木要求被攝影。

作為第三代風景攝影師，Marc Muench很幸運成為其中一位攝影師，他體驗過這種經歷，探索過這些地區，攜帶著大型相機，等待著光線，並在一些情況下，第一次拍攝獨特的地點。Marc討論了風景攝影不僅僅是對風景的探索，而且還是對你的設備和最終對自己的探索。

一遍又一遍地問：是什麼讓你的心跳加速，血液開始沸騰，讓你伸手拿起相機？Muench相信這個問題的答案埋藏在過去五十年來風景攝影師所做的許多故事中。他寫了他的故事，他父親的故事和他祖父的故事；並分享了那些在某種程度上已經成為全世界人們想像中更具戲劇性的美國的形象。

這本書的一整節專門討論風景攝影的技術方面，包括使用什麼設備，如何應對環境條件的技巧，以及使用Photoshop和其他工具進行圖像優化的易於理解的逐步課程。

Muench令人驚嘆的圖像將激發任何拿起這本書的人，從業餘到專業的攝影師都將學習如何找到、捕捉和處理自己的驚人風景圖像。

前言由Katrin Eismann撰寫。