Man! Is everyone else's landscapes turning as brown and uninteresting as mine is? Here are some different landscape perspectives I've taken this week. In this first photo, I wanted to show my brown, melting, uninteresting world in a different perspective incorporating the framing technique to try and 'perk' it up. Blah...brown and still gross.
Thank you light! At least here I was able to capture last night's fading kiss in a more classic Vermont scene (even as the field below is blotchy and melting...) and the natural color offers you SOMETHING to look at.
I had to return to the High School after the framing photo I took with the goal posts. I knew I wanted to take this landscape shot that would let me play off the 'Lyndon' hedges and provide a 'landscape' shot of the front of the school. After all what is 'natural' anyways...
Which leads me to the 'concrete jungle' landscape! I cannot believe that this shot was captured out of the front windshield of my car...point and pray style! I think the blue of a Winter sky seems deeper and more complex...maybe it's because we don't get to see it very often! I hoped that I could apply the 'rule of thirds' quick enough to capture this shot. How did I do?
Murph
Murph, you took some really great shots! I really like the bridge shot! Where is this bridge? So cool! The lines are great with the cars. I think you applied the rule of thirds pretty well here. Great job! As a side note, I carry my camera everywhere I go now when I am driving, and when a good photo op comes up, I take my camera out and snap away....even out my windshield. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe bridge is in Boston! My wife and I travel to Boston as often as we can (like last weekend and again upcoming for St. Patty's day). I'm with you, I now carry my camera everywhere I go looking for opportunities to snap those photos! Thanks for the comment...
ReplyDeleteMurph =)
Well done Murph. I am always a fan of the covered bridge, and it frames the shot so nicely. Excellent job building on what we have learned
ReplyDeleteI agree it is hard to find any interesting landscapes this time of year. I love your picture of the bridge heading into Boston, it is one of my favorite cities! The lighting in one of your photos is nice.
ReplyDeletePoint and pray too funny :]I love the bridge shot! It is funny that after everything we have learned some times a unplanned image takes the prize...Luck I guess or just hidden talent??? Please don't tell me you were the one driving (LOL). I do agree with you it everything is a little blaaa, but great job working around that with the ligting...very nice. I have to admit I pumped up some of my photo's for similar issues. Kind of wishing I had taking this class in the summer...but this way I think we might have to work a little harder at finding that great shot...so maybe we'll improve faster :)Either way great job this week.
ReplyDeleteBrown and blah were my issues this week, too! I think you did a nicer job with what you had to work with than I did, though. :)
ReplyDeleteYou did a fabulous job with all your photos but I want to specifically mention the perspective of the high school building photo- I like that you added depth to the picture by shooting it on an angle and not having the center of the school in the center of the photo. You clearly thought this one through!!
ReplyDeleteI really like the photo of the bridge. This is a very cool picture.
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening to make all of the photos all brown these days is that your camera is trying to balance all of the darks and lights in order to make an understandable image. With the lack of bright sun and very little color differences, you need to bring the f-stop down on your camera in order to enhance the darks that are there. Or you can go into Photoshop/Gimp and raise the contrast.
ReplyDeleteYou did the right thing in framing the shot to create visual interest. The thing that will always make your photos (especially nature photography) more interesting is to have an obvious foreground object to reference. If you notice when you are looking out in the distance, things become less defined. When you include something in the foreground you help the viewer relate to where they are. A sort of grounding.
The last photo is the most popular because of the dynamics of the lines and the perspective that we can all relate to. You have foreground objects and multiple pathways to lead the viewer into the work. Well done.