One of my main takeaways from the landscape reading was trying to capture how the landscape feels. She went into detail about looking for patterns, seeing how people play a role in the environment and trying to capture that relationship.
Having a 60 mile commute to work everyday in the green mountains of Vermont, I wanted to take a different approach. I wanted to try to capture "Vermontness" in my pictures. I also tried to take photos of the same thing on different days with different elements coming into play. The first two images illustrate how a foggy morning completely changes the picture versus a clear morning.
"Getting the perfect photo" is subject to your own goals. I'll use the first two photos as an example. If I wanted a mysterious photo of a farmer's field, the first image would be the perfect photo. If I wanted the same exact subject, but on a clear day, the second would have been perfect. It all depends on what you're going for as a photographer and what you're trying to capture.
Great work this week I really enjoyed looking at all your pictures. I would have to agree with you your first two pictures do show what you are talking about taking the perfect photo. I also liked the fourth picture from the bottom. I liked this picture I love taking pictures of clouds and the lighting isn't to dark or to bright and the picture shows depth. Keep up the great work.
ReplyDeleteThese photos are great! You used a number of different composition techniques really well. I like how you used the roads as leading lines. They showed depth. I also like how the photo with the boats is taken, using the rule of thirds. All around great photos.
ReplyDeleteI'm liking all of these, but especially the first one with th fog obscuring the mountain in the distance. I also like the boats on the river or lake, it has a very good organization to it. Here in Oklahoma, I live on a flood control lake, and I wasn't able to get to the natural shoreline as the lake is around 16 foot over normal, so I am jealous on the water shots you have.
ReplyDeleteTaking the time to stop is probably one of the hardest things to do. There are so many opportunities that we pass on by every day to capture the breathtaking views that Vermont has to offer. Thank you for stopping. And then there are those we do not stop for and take through the windshield.
ReplyDeleteThese shots are wonderful. There is an eerie stillness to many of these, especially the ones with some moisture in the air. You have a few that have excellent leading lines, that draw me into the images. Most excellent is the shot of the trees that create a line drawing my eye up and to the light.
I have to say you got what you wanted with the Vermontness. These pictures are so green and represent Vermont and all the farm work a lot of vermonters do. I like how you said in the intro that you like to put emotion with your photo's. I think that the first one represented that the best with the fog and the weather. I bet it is the way everyone has been feeling lately with this horrible weather that we have. Great job this week I really enjoyed these. Landscape photos are my favorite!
ReplyDeleteYour photos make me long for the days when I lived in the Burlington Vt area. Though I'm only 3 hours south, there is a world of difference. Here the mountains crowd you and up north, you have beautiful open spaces and then the mountains.
ReplyDeleteLove your photos and agree with others that stopping to capture the beauty was well worth it. I see in many of your photos over the last week the "leading" line and I particularly like that in these photos where you see the roads leading you. 8th up from the bottom and 4th up from the bottom in particular captured me.