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
Making a landscape photograph is about being able to answer the following questions and melt them into one creative intention at a time. What do I want to shoot ? How would I do ? When should I press the shutter ? We need to understand the photographic process at stake. Most of it is
Observation is an essential quality for a landscape photographer. “The devil is in the details”, they say. It is crucial to have it in mind when you are on location for two reasons. First, because you don’t want to miss a potential shot. Second, because you are very likely to go back home without any
One of my first panoramic landscape pictures shot on film, with Collados del Asón’s mountain range bathed in an intense autumnal sunlight. I was hiking for more than eight hours, looking for the perfect location, in october 2012. Finding a place where matching subject, ciseled composition and fine lighting all together is the ultimate challenge
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