landscape discussion thread. what do you look for in a landscape photo
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>>2695990
something resembling a foreground now
>>2695990
land actually being in the photo
>>2695990
Don't listen to above shitfags OP
Problem with the most landscape photographers is very same as with the guys shooting nude models. Snapping something beautiful does not make for a good photo. You can get visually pleasing photo liked by 99% of people who see it, but in most cases there is little value added from your side as a photographer.
Same goes for architecture photography - you are not adding anything if you just snap from the very same angle the architect designed it to look beautiful
So to answer your question, the only way to make a good landscape photo is to look for something which isn't there, like curious shapes, colors, weird shadows - things that look like something else and communicate subtle messages on top of a visually pleasing landscape.
Now, this is extremely hard. This is exactly the reason why most common advise you hear is to study art to become good at photography. Photography is very deceiving, what's most important is to learn to look behind visually pleasing images and reach for some artistic depth (which most of the snaps out there lack completely)
>>2695990
This photo is interesting, because initially you see nothing but clouds, and only second later realize that bottom part is actually a land. Colors are warm and set the mood. Problem is that there is no composition, and visually this is not something that captures the eye.
Which is another side of a coin: you cannot get too artsy without actually getting visual attention using some interesting subject or solid composition
Still better than shooting mountains for you grandma to like on Instagram
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>>2696050
teach me master
>>2697113
nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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>>2695990
See how the very curve of the river leads your eye up into the impressive vista of the mountains? It's satisfying.
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leaves look too green? im like continually tweaking the levels on this one
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another one from that day, watkins glen, ny
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>>2698088
Eyyy I like those a lot.
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>>2696050
The thing about photography is that it largely serves to capture something, to document, to create a visual record. It isnt a "problem" unless you are aiming to be as artistic as possible. But you can never assume that all photographers aim to be artists. Photography can be art, it can also be other things and still hold value. I think that a lot of photographers get passionate about documenting and exploring things that they find interesting, but not necessarily about creating art. There is no problem with this. And a photograph IS good if it is executed properly (light, composition, post processing etc.) It doesn't have to take an eccentric perspective to be good.
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>>2698091
You go up to rmnp a lot? I'm definitely going to hike Chasm Lake on Sunday or Monday morning. It's a beast of a hike and I think the last time I went there was with naturebro.
What do I look for in a landscape photo? I'm looking for the moment, the light, the fog, the conditions. I'm looking for a clear and concise composition that brings the viewer into the image. That's why I often stay just a little below eye level and not in your face on the ground like many photographers. I find it easier to get lost in the image that way. I'm looking for the adventure, the connection with nature and the time away from people. I'm looking for new places or to see familiar places in new light. Really, it just makes me happy.
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>>2698089
oh yeyuhs, this tickles my bowels
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>>2696052
>This photo is interesting, because initially you see nothing but clouds, and only second later realize that bottom part is actually a land.
See, to me that photo is garbage, because initially you see nothing but flat SOOC jpag colours, and only a second later you notice the photo hasn't loaded because the faggot OP uploaded it without resizing.
Also D U S T.>>2695990
>>2698091
RESIZE YOUR SHIT
My god this thread is a retard magnet.
>mfw I'm being inexorably drawn to it
I think the most important aspects of landscape photography are bright colours, strong contrast and bold geometric forms that jump out at people and make them stop scrolling for long enough to hit the like button.
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>>2698288
Too cyan.
>>2698113
I do! That's a dank capture of dream lake, btw. Need to hit that in the winter, because it's an easy hike with insane views.
And I totally agree with you there. I love to have a little depth on a picture, and shooting from about knee to waist height really does that. Help you convey the scale of a massive mountain without completely burying the frame into the ground.
Judging by the colors in your shot... Alex Burke? I would love to go hiking with you, man.
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>>2698288
Oh and btw eat my dick. I posted 5 pics and forgot to resize a single one and you post in all caps calling me a retard. El oh el, take a deep breath, bro.
>>2698420
Yeah it's me. And dream lake is totally the tits in the winter. I don't even really go there in the summer because of the crowds, but you can quite often have it to yourself after a fresh snow.
I'm down to hike sometime, winter is when I get up there the most because it's so accessible compared to the rest of the state.
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something pretty that you wouldn't usually see.
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>>2698113
Dont get hit by a blizzard this time?
>>2698559
I'm kinda hoping for it! I remember that hike being quite epic.
Stuff.
Things that look nice, interesting lighting situations, leading or downright misleading lighting*, foreground interest.
*as is the case here, this is an extremely forced perspective. Those rocks aren't even a foot wide, I'm just low and close to them.
>>2698564
implied symmetry, lines
>>2698565
anything remotely resembling a gradient, be it through fog/distance haze or surface coloration
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we're not gonna look at your photos until you learn to resize them, asshole. also stop spamming the thread with just your photos.
get fucked and read the sticky.
>>2698567
Or maybe repeating elements
>>2698569
Bright, poppy colors. I tend not to touch color unless I'm blown away by them.
>>2698568
Try reading it yourself. Only one photo I've uploaded goes against the sticky.
>>2698570
Yeah, you're obviously contributing so much more.
>>2698571
>namefag thinking everything's about him
gee wiz what a fucking surprise. no asshole, the other guy posting fuckhuge photos that all look the same.
>>2698571
I also like to revisit places I've shot before and try to portray them in a different light
...literally B^)
>>2698574
that's actually pretty cool looking. gj.
>>2698573
You're not memeing.
You're just being a child.
Stop.
I also like to find things that are simply unique to their surroundings. For example, this tree who, through trying to reach the ground, had to grow through and over a solid boulder- resulting in a root structure every bit as large as the trunk itself.
>>2698279
>mah SOOC jpg colors
Tell us more, we all need to know. Is there a special wavelength for these?
>>2698577
namefag stop
>>2698582
Please start typing your name in as lowercase anonymous so as to not be associated with me.
>>2698592
Do you know how I know you're obsessed with isi?
>>2698597
would not put it past a namefag
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>>2698600
Go back to /b/
>>2698094
But I ask you, what is photography when it isn't "art"?
>>2698614
But I ask you,
to please fuck off
and kill yourself
>>2698614
Bumping with picture that may not actually be landscape photography.
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>>2698828
can't tell if overesposed or just right
>>2698834
I feel the same way. I intentionally blew it out just a tad so it would have that angelic feel, since it's a cairn at the summit of a hike, but everytime I look at the shot I feel like it's maybe just a tad too much.
>>2698614
It's a visual record, a documentation.
To put it another way: a painting of a house is a painting of a house. A photograph of a house is a house. See the difference?
When photography was invented, it was marked as the death of painting. It wasn't literally the end of artistic painting, it just meant that you didn't need to paint something to keep a visual record because photography did it in a fraction of the time.
>>2698614
>But I ask you, what is photography when it isn't "art"?
This is like asking "when are words not used in storytelling?"
Photography isn't art unless there is a lot of planning involved. It documents an instant in time. Ansel Adams planned how his final print would look before even taking a camera to go take the picture.
90% of what you see on /p/ and most websites and magazines are just documenting. Not art.
>>2695990
>what do you look for in a landscape photo
Beyond technical things like good light, tonal quality, naturally sound composition — more subjective things like mood, which kind of lords over the other stuff. I try to take landscapes that are aesthetically pleasing at least, and might invoke emotion at best.
>>2698065
This is the stuff I find hard to enjoy when it comes to landscape. Heavy-handed (note: I'm saying too much, just distracting) processing and obvious exploitation of lens distortion. To each his own, I guess.
>>2698993
oops, my bad... *not saying too much, just distracting*
>>2698955
>90% of what you see on /p/ and most websites and magazines are just documenting.
But documenting is exactly was Robert Frank, Dorthea Lange and Walker Evans (to name a few) set out to do, and their photographs are considered art as any other. What's the difference?
>>2698996
They weren't documenting their shoes, or their desk, or their one friend sitting on a sofa playing SNES. /p/ just wants to play with its camera, not actually take photos.
Also, in the age of the internet, and the nearly complete coverage of the world with cameras, we've left the age of documentation, and entered the age of emotion and expression.
>>2699003
Well, I'm honestly glad you clarified. I was genuinely curious to see what perspective, and I totally agree with you.
>>2698828
I love rocks like this. What are they called?
Check out the unrepeantant snapshits being critiqued, and the terrible advice coming from the Disneyland HDR retard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0eM4aJizg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_bTByFGf08
>>2698557
Oh what's up, boulder fag.
>>2699991
It's called a cairn. It signifies where a trail heads, when the ground is too rough to make it apparent.
>>2699051
What are you going on about? That picture was taken with a digital camera.
Motion.
A lot of your landscapes are pretty mountain vistas and puffy clouds.......go somewhere different, somewhere less traveled (ironically enough this was shot on the side of State Road 17 in Florida but it worked) do something different. Watch your scene for potential compositions, walk around, get dirty.
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>>2700847
Not worth printing.
>>2700883
This is sugars best photo, apparently it is worth posting in every thread with a shred of relevance.
Sugar takes so few photos, of such mediocre quality, that even he has stopped claiming to have a bunch of rolls to scan, or that his camera is brokeen, or whatever other host of excuses he uses.
Oh, you wanna buy a d800, right? Great idea! Your 105/2,5 SILVERNOSE!!!11!! will really shine there
>>2700759
Yes, and that's why it looks a bit shit, and why you can't tell if it's overexposed or just right, and why you had to intentionally blow it out.
If you'd used negative colour film, you could have given the foreground the very same exposure, and the highlights in the sky would have retained their detail.
Which is not to say that you couldn't have done a better job than you did with a more laborious digital technique (GND, bracketing for HDR), just that film is a better tool for super contrasty scenes generally.
Go to the Alex thread, get learned.
>>2701069
Reckt
>>2700847
lmao your watermark is gay
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>>2700847
wow
this photo again
>>2701136
this photoless ragers post again
>>2698085
I think it looks great. love how you captured the sun beam
>>2698567
I love the tilt in the layers
>le solitary tree meme
>le long exposure water meme
>le oversaturation meme
Ya'll suck
>>2702676
>meme
you're just visually illiterate and view the world through a web browser
>>2702678
>if you don't like seeing the most cliché things ever over and over, you're visually illiterate
>>2702679
shhh, memer
go back to whence you came
>>2702676
Where's your landscape photos, friend?
>>2702848
He hasn't taken any in years, because he can't figure out how to not take meme photos too.
