Landscape photography, where is it headed?

[andybarton]

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Here's one of my own personal favourites.

 

To me, it sums up Swaledale, but it is completely unoriginal. Doesn't stop me liking it, though.

 

Swaledale

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[petewayne]

Hi Jeff

 

The photographs are nice but IMHO hardly merit the great praise heaped upon them in the photo-landscape forum.

 

....but is this not the nub of the matter......we all interpret either as photographers or observers and what is one mans pleasure is another mans pain.......to me those images are of an area I know well and have been treated in a different way from many I have seen before, which for my viewing is pleasing......

 

Landscapes are a difficult subject to both capture in terms of light and detail and also to convey a message to the observer. For instance a portrait gives us an ability to relate instantly to the subject because there is an emotion. Landscapes tend to lack that emotion and I agree end up being a replication of the same old same old. There are some images presented by Joe Cornish and Colin Waite for instance that I cannot relate to and my immediate reaction is that they are mediocre.

 

For me the landscape is an ever changing environment that is hugely difficult to capture. However those images that are successful to my eye are ones where I can relate rather than the technical excellence or otherwise.

 

......but love the story of Elgol.......as someone who has lived in the northwest Highlands for a few years there are so many photogenic places where the expansive vista or the delicate detail are overlooked by so many........but on the plus side when I head back up there I am not in a queue

[andybarton]

Next time we go to Scotland, we are going beyond the Great Glen. The Applecross peninsular gave a taste and a vision of what was to come, but we just didn't have the time to go further north.

 

It's only a 12 hour drive from where we live

[petewayne]

The road across to Applecross is always fun....in darkness, snow and ice!!!

 

One of my favourite areas is the Stoer Peninsula where you have a mix of ancient rocks, wild coastline and the backdrop of the Assynt Mountains. There is also the area around Kinlochbervie for fisheries, Sandwood Bay (if you up for a long tab in), wild Cape Wrath and Durness or the islands off Scourie.......

[Guest malland]

The landscape has become so accessible that it's mostly been done before. IMO, there's little chance of avoiding derivative work unless you're a committed artist, or reaching areas of natural beauty that have not been explored by the masses...

No one should think that one shouldn't photograph a landscape with a miniature camera. Nor do I think that one should regret that so many landscapes are now made: the whole history of photography has involved progressive democratization of the medium — and there always have been poor photographs and better ones. The average is always quite similar...

 

—Mitch/Paris

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[russell]

landscapes have gone to the dogs!

Funny you guys should mention that. I was never much for landscapes but I took quite a few in the lake district last week. The best of the lot is this one with the dog with the red jumper at sunset when the fog cleared briefly.

 

FWIW there is a stone circle right next to the dog off frame. Funny how the better picture didn't include the stone circle.

 

This is a crop(top and bottom) from a M9 and a 1990s tabbed 50mm cron.

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