Assignment #2: Your job this week is to take photos of landscapes. What is a landscape in photo?...Post your favorite landscape photos to your blog as well as a short description of what you learned about landscape, or what is was like "getting the perfect photo." The subject of the post should be landscape, how you choose to discuss it is up to you!
I am going to start this post by saying that my least favorite subjects for photography are landscapes and sunsets. Landscapes are far too restricting in a compositional sense, because they span such a wide distance. It ends up being more luck than anything in finding that amazing shot. Most landscapes just look like landscapes. Same as sunsets.
That being said, both of these were involved in this week's assignment.
Landscapes are hard for me, I have to ride that midline between showing a large segment of the natural world and keeping SOMETHING within close proximity that I can utilize compositionally. I spent most of this week just running around and shooting everything I saw. A great landscape is far more dependent on finding that amazing place that has a surreal beauty to it, rather than creating it.
I am not super pleased with my results, but they'll do.
This last one is not quite a part of the assignment, but it was a candid I took with my family and I really love how it looks:
Sara,
ReplyDeleteI like your sunset. You captured the beautiful skyline and the crimson n just right. The element of balance in your photo of the bridge is great and the angle that you shot makes me want to climb down the stairs..
Angela