5 of the Most Overused Landscape Photography Techniques

jtk · Aug 25, 2019

Too many photos at tourist destinations. Too many variations on standard scenes. Too few photos far from parking lots ( that wouldn't exist but for tourists). Too much reliance on guide books. Too little evidence of creativity.

alanrockwood · Sep 9, 2019

jtk said:
Too many photos at tourist destinations. Too many variations on standard scenes. Too few photos far from parking lots ( that wouldn't exist but for tourists). Too much reliance on guide books. Too little evidence of creativity.

Yeah, but what if we find it fun to do most of those things?

jtk · Sep 9, 2019

alanrockwood said:
Yeah, but what if we find it fun to do most of those things?

See the OT.

ChipMcD · Dec 9, 2019

Eric Rose said:
Funny thing is, when I hear someone emphasizing "making" a photo rather than taking it I cringe lol.

Amen. Although last fall I apparently caused some consternation when I told a friend that I was going down the street to "shoot the church," and some elderly ladies who heard me got wide-eyed. My friend was able to explain, and I didn't know that it had happened until he told me later. The times that we live in!

Kilgallb · Dec 11, 2019

Sirius Glass said:
I speak clearly and distinctly with an accentless sound, like US news reporters, but a girl friend from Calgary claimed I have an "American Twang". I ain't go no stinkin' twang no how.

I am from Calgary, everyone in Toronto thinks we sound American. I take it as a compliment.

MurrayMinchin · Dec 11, 2019

This isn't a technique but the annoying artifact of one, and that's when people darken their sky which then turns out to be darker than sky reflected by water in the scene. Never looks right...always looks like an oversight/mistake.

Edit...do not look at my avatar!

ericdan · Dec 11, 2019

Sirius Glass said:
His accent was so thick I had to use Google Translate to get it in English

WTF was this jabber about shipping lens in a box that had nothing to do with the title.

Maybe he overuses those motifs or maybe he thinks he sees too much of those but who died and made him god?

I will shoot what I want and when I want.

we all have an accent. Including you.

Sirius Glass · Dec 12, 2019

ericdan said:
we all have an accent. Including you.

Ah yes but mine is understandable.

ericdan · Dec 12, 2019

Sirius Glass said:
Ah yes but mine is understandable.

Send me a voice memo please. I’ll be able to give you better feedback that way.

barzune · Dec 17, 2019

Kilgallb said:
I am from Calgary, everyone in Toronto thinks we sound American. I take it as a compliment.

"American"?? Like from Havana? or maybe Quebec? Maybe in Calgary they (you) have a Buenos Aires accent?
Or do you mean that you sound Mohawk?

Sort of brings up the question of a European accent, doesn't it? You know, sort of like Italian/Swedish/Gaelic accent.
I'm sure happy that I don't have any need to deal with "everyone in Toronto".

Darko Kamer · Jan 12, 2020

He mentions he doesn't like "panoramas that are too busy" and then says "it is about what you take away from the photo that matters" or something to that effect.
But yet long exposures with ND filters where something in the water is taken away is not so cool.... humm

Golden hour "the light steals the show".... Humm must be shooting in pretty boring places then.
I wish we had the problem of spectacular golden hours around here.

... note its probably better to talk positively about something. Being negative and critical can leave you open. (note to self as well; ducking and weaving)

Seriously though, I learned a few things from that video and appreciate the work done on it , thanks for posting the link.

markjwyatt · Jan 12, 2020

MurrayMinchin said:
This isn't a technique but the annoying artifact of one, and that's when people darken their sky which then turns out to be darker than sky reflected by water in the scene. Never looks right...always looks like an oversight/mistake.

...

What is worse is when they "change" the sky. Often the sky they change to is one that is rarely if ever seen in the location. When that happens (whether digitally or via sandwiching negatives), I say the artist is changing from photography to graphic arts, but I usually say that to irk someone doing it. .

KenS · Jan 12, 2020

Theo Sulphate said:
How can I capture X-rays or cosmic rays with my camera in a non-laboratory environment?

By 'finding and using' the 'right/best' bait???? [ ]

Ken

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