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Forum: Photographic Technique
09-11-2019, 02:41 PM
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Here is another approach....if the "landscape" is just not interesting enough, take along a prop !
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Forum: Photographic Technique
05-31-2019, 05:18 PM
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if you want to progress from recording an image to creating a photograph, use the tools at your disposal. I don't mean carry a saw :), I mean learn to use photo editing software.
As someone else on this forum recently commented : "I am not a Xerox copier I am a photographer" (or something along those lines). If you want accuracy use Google street view.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
05-17-2019, 06:01 AM
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Here are three images of the same view. The first does no more than record the scene. The second adds foreground interest. The third meant getting up early.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
05-17-2019, 05:36 AM
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+1 to what Dave just said. A new lens won't help you until you have exhausted the possibilities with what you have already.
Here are some things to try:
As Dave pointed out photography is ALL about the light. Go to your field at sunrise and sunset, and see the difference, not just with the colour of the light but the way low raking sunlight changes textures, form, and shadows.
Use the widest end of your lens (I am presuming a zoom), and get in close to an object like a rock or perhaps the wild grass, focus on that and have that be your foreground interest. Experiment with narrow depth of field and wide depth of field and see which you like best. Get down low for the shot. Present your viewer with a scene that they would not see from normal height.
take a tripod with you and do some shots using a slow shutter speed. If there is a little wind you can have the trees as the background, and the grasses closest to you performing a dance as they get blurred by your slow speed.
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