We are independent & ad-supported. We may earn a commission for purchases made through our links.
WiseGEEK

Advertiser Disclosure

Our website is an independent, advertising-supported platform. We provide our content free of charge to our readers, and to keep it that way, we rely on revenue generated through advertisements and affiliate partnerships. This means that when you click on certain links on our site and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Learn more.

How We Make Money

We sustain our operations through affiliate commissions and advertising. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission from the merchant at no additional cost to you. We also display advertisements on our website, which help generate revenue to support our work and keep our content free for readers. Our editorial team operates independently from our advertising and affiliate partnerships to ensure that our content remains unbiased and focused on providing you with the best information and recommendations based on thorough research and honest evaluations. To remain transparent, we’ve provided a list of our current affiliate partners here.
Art

How Do I Choose the Best Fine Art Landscape Photographers?

By Bryce Clinton
Updated May 17, 2024
Our promise to you
WiseGEEK is dedicated to creating trustworthy, high-quality content that always prioritizes transparency, integrity, and inclusivity above all else. Our ensure that our content creation and review process includes rigorous fact-checking, evidence-based, and continual updates to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Our Promise to you

Founded in 2002, our company has been a trusted resource for readers seeking informative and engaging content. Our dedication to quality remains unwavering—and will never change. We follow a strict editorial policy, ensuring that our content is authored by highly qualified professionals and edited by subject matter experts. This guarantees that everything we publish is objective, accurate, and trustworthy.

Over the years, we've refined our approach to cover a wide range of topics, providing readers with reliable and practical advice to enhance their knowledge and skills. That's why millions of readers turn to us each year. Join us in celebrating the joy of learning, guided by standards you can trust.

Editorial Standards

At WiseGEEK, we are committed to creating content that you can trust. Our editorial process is designed to ensure that every piece of content we publish is accurate, reliable, and informative.

Our team of experienced writers and editors follows a strict set of guidelines to ensure the highest quality content. We conduct thorough research, fact-check all information, and rely on credible sources to back up our claims. Our content is reviewed by subject matter experts to ensure accuracy and clarity.

We believe in transparency and maintain editorial independence from our advertisers. Our team does not receive direct compensation from advertisers, allowing us to create unbiased content that prioritizes your interests.

Choosing the best fine art landscape photographers takes research. Perhaps the best means for judging a photographer's skill is your own personal appreciation for landscape and fine art photography, but if you're having trouble deciding what you like, or can't seem to find any objective criteria for judging photographers, you can look to the history of photography for help. Books about photography are excellent resources to find out about world-renowned photographers.

Browsing the Internet is a great way to learn about landscape photography quickly. Another good place to gather information is the art history department of your local college or university. If you are only interested in fine art landscape photographers who have the best reputation, a great way to compare individual merits is to research who has won various fine art photography prizes. A lot depends on your reason for seeking out photographers.

Well-known fine art landscape photographers include Ansel Adams, Michael Frye, Elizabeth Carmel, Jennifer Wu, Sebastiao Salgado, Kenneth Parker, and many others. Some online directories include extensive lists of both traditional and contemporary landscape photographers, allowing you to click on names and find out more. If you're looking to buy art, you can sometimes go through photographer's websites, or find out who represents them. Many print and poster outlets offer affordable reproductions.

When attempting to choose an aesthetic that you like, consider the many varieties of subject matter and printing style. No two fine art landscape photographers are alike, but you might be able to narrow down your taste according to favored geographical locations, types of perspectives and lenses, lighting, and color choice. You might decide you like vistas more than close ups, color more than back and white images, or experimental photography more than traditional photography.

Other things to consider when evaluating fine art landscape photographers is the amount of landscape you would prefer to see versus other subject matter. A great deal of modern landscape photography includes other elements and sometimes blurs together genres. Some viewers might want a pure landscape with no evidence of humanity in it, while others might appreciate elements of portraiture, industrial photography, or documentary photography in their landscapes.

Photography categorized under nature, wildlife, and travel can all have elements of landscape in them, so it's useful to search broadly when seeking out landscape photographers you might not know about. Some fine art landscape photographers also do interesting urban, conceptual, and night photography that you might find appealing. Keep your options open, and keep searching widely, and you're sure to find many more great photographers each year.

WiseGEEK is dedicated to providing accurate and trustworthy information. We carefully select reputable sources and employ a rigorous fact-checking process to maintain the highest standards. To learn more about our commitment to accuracy, read our editorial process.
See our Editorial Process Share Feedback

Related Articles

Discussion Comments

By gravois — On May 04, 2012

Does anyone have any advice about selling fine art photography? I recently inherited a large collection of landscape photographs from my late father and I know that some of them are quite valuable. His collection is more than I can display or manage so I am intending to sell off most of it.

Should I contact fine art photography galleries directly or should I try to work through an agent/broker?

By jonrss — On May 03, 2012

When people think of landscape photography they often think of boring peaceful scenes that might hang on the walls of a dentist office. But the truth is that there is a tremendous variety of landscape photography from throughout history and from all parts of the world. Some of the images are peaceful, sure, but others are violent, jarring, even disturbing. There is incredible aesthetic potential when photographing the land.

Since there is so much variety you can be choosy about what you buy. If you don't see something you like, keep looking, the right picture is out there somewhere. Or better yet, if you can't find what you are looking for pick up a camera and take the picture yourself.

By truman12 — On May 02, 2012
It is always hard to say what is the best in art. I think that with landscape painting, like most art, you just have to go with what connects with you. The simple fact is that if you don't like looking at a painting you probably shouldn't buy it, no matter how good people say it is.

The art world always falls prey to tastemakers. It is supposed to be a very singular and personal pursuit and yet so many of us end up following a crowd.

WiseGEEK, in your inbox

Our latest articles, guides, and more, delivered daily.

WiseGEEK, in your inbox

Our latest articles, guides, and more, delivered daily.