Rural landscape photography is in many ways similar to photographing urban landscapes. The difference is rural photography is about capturing the “life” in the countryside. The term “rural landscape” describes the diverse portion of the nation’s land area not densely populated or intensively developed, and not set aside for preservation in a natural state. The rural landscape provides natural resources, food and fiber, wildlife habitat and inspiration. Some of the most important and celebrated landscape photographers have been motivated by an appreciation of the beauty of the natural environment and a desire to see it preserved.
Shooting landscapes forces people to get outside and find the beauty around them. Sometimes this means discovering places right in front of your eyes that you just never noticed were beautiful before. Landscape photography leads people to see the world in new ways, it pushes us to explore new places, but it gives us a push to get out during those times of day that we are often holed up inside, such as sunrise, sunset and nighttime. Getting out to shoot landscapes clears the mind and stops worrying, anxiety and distractions for most people.
To take the photos above I went to town to re-do the street photography/candid photo shoot because I believe when I completed the previous photo shoot, the images and final outcomes were not strong enough.
Best 3
The image above is one of my three best from this photo shoot. I believe the image above is good because it was taken with a car in the center of the frame. It also shows a few people walking on the pavement towards the camera and away as well. The image has a good depth and shows buildings in the background.
The image above is the second best of the three best. It is good image because it shows both people and cars parked and in motion when the image was taken. The image also has a good depth and shows more people and vehicles in the distance getting smaller and smaller as the street goes on.
Finally, I have chosen the image above as one of the best because it shows different types of people. There is a man walking on his own closest to the camera and family behind which shows variety in the subjects in the photos. I like this image the most because it shows the world in motion in the feet of the closest subject and people in the back as well.
Landscape photography is capturing images outdoors either nature or urban places that have an emotional connection with them or even a wow factor to them. For example, if someone was to go to some cliff sides on a windy day, they would be amazed by the scenery thats happening with waves crashing on cliff sides and you could take a picture of it because of how intriguing that scenery was. Landscape pictures are taken because the people who where amazed by the scenery want other people to see the scenery and want them to imagine what it would be like to see that picture for themselves in real life and see the reaction that a person could have to the picture giving it emotional value.
Moreover, there are different types of landscape pictures that could be taken, which are rural, costal, urban, industrial and altered landscapes.
This shoot is inspired by work by South African photographer David Goldblatt. His series ‘particulars’ focuses on particular parts of the body rather than the full image.
My idea is to do a series of black and white images of different body parts (specifically hands and feet). I don’t want to do this in the studio as I feel that it will make the photos look too clinical. instead I am going to take my photos outside in a grassy, natural area. Due to the current coronavirus situation I am going to be my own model so as to lesson chance of coronavirus infection.
Who
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On Photoshop I used the maximum whiteness filter to achieve a harsh, sterile look. Goldblatt’s photos are a lot softer than mine but I still think mine are decent
When a double exposure is seen in photography it means that photos have been layered on top of each other, often creating strange effects.
Lewis Bush uses multi exposures in his photo ‘trading zones’ in which he layers images of different people working in the finance industry to explore the monotony and lack of individuality in the work place.
Instead of doing this with multiple people I am going to use photos of myself throughout the years in order to see how much I myself have changed as I have grown older. The photos are mainly not taken by me, a lot of the older photos having come directly from my mums facebook page.
Here are my photos cropped and put roughly in chronological order which is the order in which my photos will be layered onto each other.
On photoshop I made each photo the same size, layered them on top of each other and turned down the opacity to 30 % on each photo. By doing this I created my final image.
Overall I like this photo even though it looks so strange. Ideally I would centre the photos I would calibrate the features to match so I had a more human looking end result
In this image it the dynamics are very exaggerated as the trees show some dark black shades and with the sun giving a bright white background making it unclear what’s behind the trees. With this image the branches start from the left going towards the right as though it is climbing over to the other side. Within this image the branches show chaos and lots to focus on with the texture of the rocks and the branches overlapping each other.
In this image it focuses on a grey tonal range giving the image a misty look to it, the water reflecting the branches can be seen as quite still giving the image a simple abstract overview. With this image the branches start from the top and bottom going towards the centre line as though they are reaching out towards each other. Within this image the branches are calm and simple to follow with some overlaps and thinner branches.
In both images the focus on the photos are the branches going from one side of the photo to the other, slightly covering up the background making is harder to see. They both give a mysterious look with the branches giving a perception of which way round the image is as the first image looks side ways as the branches are on their side looking like a tree and the other image is reflected so the original image could be upside down and just reflected in photoshop. I thought that the image I created is representative towards the water image as I wanted the focus of the image to be the branches and the in depth detail they have with them overlapping each other yet I wanted to create more noise in my image as I found the image was too calming and simple as I prefer images with simple chaos emerging the more you analysis it.
Landscape photography is the study of the great outdoors, capturing images showing the essence of nature and the world around us. Usually, landscape photography will focus on the natural environment, however many photographers also capture industrial and man-made environments- showing the contrast between the artificial and nature. Great landscape photography really immerses the viewer into the image, allowing them to feel involved in the scene they are observing and transporting them to the location at hand.
Rural landscape photography focuses on capturing images showing the stories and life in nature and the environment around us, usually one not familiar to many people, possibly secluded or desolate. These images will use different perspectives, lighting and locations to capture areas of a landscape in a less obvious way than usual.
First I turned all photo into black and white to see which photos look best with this tonal range. Then after picking the 3 to 5 images I put them into a separate mini folder so I can access them easily and to be able to edit them in my lessons when needs to be. I then changed to editing the photos on photoshop as I can access that in my free time. I changed the image into black and white then proceeded to alter the contrast and brightness to give it a stronger look with a large dynamic range. This then made my image turn very abstract yet it is natural which corresponds the task in hand. I then did the same thing to the other two images but with different contrast and brightness levels to then fit the image and how I think would give the images a mysterious look towards it.
After changing the brightness and contrast I decided that I didn’t want to adjust the image too much to the point where the original doesn’t match the photoshopped one so I’m leaving it to how it is as the first image already looks abstract and the other two I am happy with the mysterious look they give.
Rural Landscape – ‘the diverse portion of the nation’s land area not densely populated or intensively developed, and not set aside for preservation in a natural state.’
Rural landscape photography is similar to photographing urban lanscapes, the difference is rural photography is about capturing the ‘life’ in the countryside.
