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Are you like me getting a tad tired of all the photo magazine features on landscape photography?.
This months PP has got another landscape feature, AP mag has a feature on landscapes (there was also a landscape feature in the week before) PM had a landscape feature and so on....
Landscapes all look very nice and that, but feature editors...can we have something else to read about?
I am very very new to landscape photography and am pleased abouit all the articles. They give me something to aspire to (everyone has to dream) and also give helpful hints. But sometimes a little bit of variety would be good!
Jayne
I spoke to the features editor from AP the other week. He told me that 90-95% of their readers are landscape photographers.
They are simply responding to what their customers want.
Adam.
I quess it's like most mags ...if you subscribe or read more than one mag on a subject on a regular basis it's amazing how cyclical they all are. Can also be disappointing if you read about a subject in one mag one month, then grab it's counterpart the following month to find a similar feature but with little to add. It's not just photography magazines either, but also boats, aircraft, cars, motorbikes, golf, sex (oops)...
(If only whingeing was an olympic sport, I'd be a gold meddalist!)
Well now, it depends on the mags you read doesn't it? I gave up on the "How to do it" mags some time ago, because it's not just landscape stuff that repeats and repeats, it's everything else too. Summer is when they do their landscape stuff. December and January it's flash/nightime photography, autumn is indoor portraits, spring is wildlife/wildflowers and outdoor portraits. That's the way it is, because that's what sells, plus landscape is what 70+% of photographers take.
You can try some of the narrower focus mags for a different approach. I like Black & White Photography, because it has another stance. You could also try Aperture if you like the photograpy as art view. They talk awful balls at times but the photography is often thought provoking and challenging.
So I suppose the message is; you can find something different but you'll have to look at the smaller circulation specialist titles to get off the merry-go-round.
Cheers,
Alan
Editors have to pander to their readership and everybody wants to be a landscape photographer....yes I generalise but in the main they do.
It's seen as an approacheable subject, it gets people out for a walk in the same way as owning a dog does. There are an infinite number of opportunities.
If the mags aren't for you, don't buy - I rarely do.
What we need is a printed version of EPZ eh?? I for one would by it (if Pete would post it to me here in Japan??)
Seriously though, I think a monthly or bi-monthly printed magazine might work, especially if we 'all got a say' on the contents.
I agree with everyone above. I've just let my PP subscription slip, after having it sent here for almost 3 years, (well, it was never the same after Will Cheung left was it?)
Regards, Nic.
niccleave.com
From the negs/slides sent to me for scanning, at least 75% of them are landscapes, 10% are still-lifes/product shots, 10% are health/beauty lifestyle and the remainder is normally shots of the photographers kids looking cute in those ball pits!
I remember the photo mags in the 80's - it was wall to wall glamour, so I guess Landcapes are the current trend, which probably pleases the editors as its a 'safe' subject - i.e. a subject they will not get hauled over the coals for decency/political correctness etc. That's what killed off glamour photography....thankfully.
I must admit to preferring still life to landscape (probably because everything is, nominally, under my control.) You don't get that many articles on it, which is a bit of a shame really
I dispute the 90-95%. Maybe 90-95% of respondents to a questionnaire. That's because landscape photographers have plent of time to respond in between waiting for the light to be right.
If most people on this site are representative I don't think 90-95% of the uploads are landscape.
Sorry to argue with you Adam, and your spread was spectacular, but I also would like to see some more variation between the publications.
Hey no worries, you arent arguing with me Cheryl. Your arguing with AP. I just quoted what I had been told.
Adam.
Not 90-95% but they are the most of any type uploaded here.
Look: 5142 Pages
748 Animals and Wildlife
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1313 * Landscape and Travel *
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64 Photo Journalism
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