Ernicus
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I'm having some trouble with my landscapes. I'll put some up here in a bit after I go through them. To me they are boring. I'm sure a lot of it is subject matter, but I'd like to think you can make anything somewhat interesting.
I think what I'm struggling with is portraying what my eye sees and what I feel in a given location to the picture. For instance, I went to see St. Croix Island. It is nothing special to look at really...however it feels neat to be there and be walking on the rocks and shooting the pictures. I don't know how to get that feeling into a picture.
I am finding this with much of the scenery I am shooting. Cool to be there, neat to look at, boring picture.
Went ahead and posted a few for examples. Didn't do much editing 'cause theres no point wasting time on a boring photo.
I'll put what I was feeling and thinking on each shot to help portray what I wanted to get in the photo.
This one was cool to up here, up on a cliff making my way down to capture sunset. Looking through the trees to the distant river bank. I chose to frame the right side of the bank as seen through the trees. B&W just because, wasn't sure how it'd look so I thought I'd try. I wanted to capture not just the beauty of the scenery but the coolnes of being up there looking down and outward.
This was water running out of a large drain then going over an edge to make a water fall behind me. I cut out the drain cause it was ugly. I wanted to capture the awesomeness of being here, crouched down, watching water rush by me so fast...I could feel a slight breeze even from it. After review, it just looks like boring water.
This one I just wanted to capture the serene feeling of being up on the cliff looking outward at the river. I messed up on the horizon placement a bit, but the framing mindset was to get river, some trees and the kinda cool clouds, showing calm peacefulness. Just looks kinda blah now.
I dunno why the fourth image is showing as an attachment, but in the last one, same kinda thing, up on a cliff looking outward. Being there felt awesome, the view looked nice calm and serene, I could sit there a while and just enjoy being there. I put the tree in on the right side to break up the rather boring look to it, and the sky with no clouds really didn't help much. The muddy bank, to me, is even cool to see. However, once again in the picture, its boring.
Bottom line is what I see does not portray on the pictures. These places really do look kinda cool in person and are not as boring as the pictures portray.
I think what I'm struggling with is portraying what my eye sees and what I feel in a given location to the picture. For instance, I went to see St. Croix Island. It is nothing special to look at really...however it feels neat to be there and be walking on the rocks and shooting the pictures. I don't know how to get that feeling into a picture.
I am finding this with much of the scenery I am shooting. Cool to be there, neat to look at, boring picture.
Went ahead and posted a few for examples. Didn't do much editing 'cause theres no point wasting time on a boring photo.
I'll put what I was feeling and thinking on each shot to help portray what I wanted to get in the photo.
This one was cool to up here, up on a cliff making my way down to capture sunset. Looking through the trees to the distant river bank. I chose to frame the right side of the bank as seen through the trees. B&W just because, wasn't sure how it'd look so I thought I'd try. I wanted to capture not just the beauty of the scenery but the coolnes of being up there looking down and outward.
This was water running out of a large drain then going over an edge to make a water fall behind me. I cut out the drain cause it was ugly. I wanted to capture the awesomeness of being here, crouched down, watching water rush by me so fast...I could feel a slight breeze even from it. After review, it just looks like boring water.
This one I just wanted to capture the serene feeling of being up on the cliff looking outward at the river. I messed up on the horizon placement a bit, but the framing mindset was to get river, some trees and the kinda cool clouds, showing calm peacefulness. Just looks kinda blah now.
I dunno why the fourth image is showing as an attachment, but in the last one, same kinda thing, up on a cliff looking outward. Being there felt awesome, the view looked nice calm and serene, I could sit there a while and just enjoy being there. I put the tree in on the right side to break up the rather boring look to it, and the sky with no clouds really didn't help much. The muddy bank, to me, is even cool to see. However, once again in the picture, its boring.
Bottom line is what I see does not portray on the pictures. These places really do look kinda cool in person and are not as boring as the pictures portray.
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