Whats the deal with landscapes?

wolf666

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:36 AM

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This may seem a strange question but what do people see in landscape photos? I find them irritatingly boring in the extreme. I realise I must be missing the point but I have tried and tried but I still don't get it. I hear people rave about Addams and Waite and I try to look at their work but it always comes down to "Okay its a field with a hill in the background" or something similar.
I have seen some stunning sunsets but thats down to the colours and wonderful warmth invoked. I have tried to take landscapes and failed miserably because I never produce a shot that I find satisfactory, of course I probably wouldn't anyway feeling as I do. So can someone please tell me what I'm missing ?

StrayCat

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:44 AM

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You had to be there.

strawman

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:46 AM

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Missing item a soul?

For me there is a delight in watching how the light changes in the land. What is at one time a drab scene can suddenly be lit and reveal a hidden glory. To be honest in some photo's I just enjoy imaging being there or even better actualy being there.

To take something that many have seen and reveal it in a more interesting way perhaps make them stop and think.

A lot like the rest of photography then for me.

***Edit Denny put it in a phrase.

Mixpix

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:49 AM

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What do people like in any subject? I'm not a massive fan of them either, not because there is anything wrong with them. I get up early enough to go to work, I'm certainly not willing to get up in the middle of the night to go out taking pictures. So I choose to shoot anything apart from landscapes. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate a good one when I see it though. But then I look at all subjects....... except flowers.. but now and then even one of those catches my eye.

ardbeg77

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:51 AM

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Quote: I can't find any on my site

10 and 18 under 'colour'?....

I'm not sure what the problem is - different people are moved and interested by different things...simple as that. Not sure why it has to be an issue?

Steve

keithh

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:58 AM

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Surely you don't want us to start on the similarity across the field of portraiture do you.


we all have areas of photography that we like or don't like..can appreciate or not, as the case may be....but then we just get on with it.

Westers

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11 Jan 2006 - 6:58 AM

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You are a towny then. That's your problem. Towns and countries don't mix

Chris_H

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11 Jan 2006 - 7:00 AM

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I am not a fan of pictures of flowers and highly digital manipulated pictures, and still life images also do nothing for me.
I am not saying I will never like an image of any of the above but I do not like taking them as they do not interest me so I also find myself not looking through as many of these type of images in the galleries.

I love landscapes as I love being outside, For me there is no better feeling than being on top of a hill or on the beach waiting for sunrise when everything around you is so quiet and there is no one else around.
I love taking landscapes I love being outside and I love looking at other peoples landscape images.

I quite enjoy wedding photography and enjoy looking at other peoples images, if I did not photograph weddings myself I would never dream of looking at other peoples wedding pictures they would probably bore me to death.

I have never really tried taking many wildlife pictures or Motor Sport pictures, although both interest me and I am hoping to get into taking pictures from these two areas soon, I know once I do I will love to look through other peoples images also.



Chris