Landscape photography is a lot about « waiting for » rather than « stumbling upon » an opportunity for me. I don’t usually got out with my camera to see what I can eventually shoot the same day. I walk out with the mindset of what I can eventually shoot at a certain time of the year. With experience
We collect memories in the form of still images, sounds, smells and feelings. The impact the « decisive moment » has on us in the long run mostly depends on how much attention and how focused we were at that time on our subject. The more proficient you get technically the more present you get
I came up with the idea of writing this post by remembering a conversation I had with a friend five years ago, who is a professional landscape photographer specialized in panoramas as well. With twenty years of professional photography behind him, he was at a turning point of his career, when he slowly realized that
The etymology of “photography”comes from two Greek words : the first one is phōtos, for “light”, and graphé, meaning “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”. So literally photography means « drawing with light ». Both concepts of composition and light are inherent in our craft. With so many possibilities offered by software editing pictures, creative filters of
“Over the years, I have developed a method to avoid thinking in halves, thirds, quarters, or the golden mean as I compose the landscape: I always begin by spontaneously balancing the features I have chosen by intuition.” Galen Rowell, Mountain Light. For any photographer looking to improve his skills and changing his approach to landscape
The image output is the support you choose to showcase your final image on. It can range from putting it on the web (digital support), getting it printed on a mug to having it beautifully displayed on Plexiglas (printed support). Both types have been reinforcing each other in the last twenty years. On the one
Each time I show my original slides, people are impressed by their realism, richness of details and beautiful colors. Then any doubt about their veracity vanishes. The slide is a kind of reference for the viewer’s eye, because it comes straight out of the camera. As well as a creative proof hence you can get
Here are thoughts I wrote down in 2013 when I was learning analog panoramic photography. “I have been taking 617 slide pictures for a year now. Medium format landscape photography is a deeply gratifying process. It is the result of a lot of research and work. I sometimes feel lucky to be given a picture
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