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kleinbl00  ·  4277 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Am I improving?

A wise man once told me that the difference between professionals and amateurs is professionals take more pictures and show fewer of them. And that was 30 years ago, before anybody other than the NRO had digital cameras.

Your landscapes need foregrounds, unless you intend them to be desktops. Humans are suckers for depth of field. Also motion. Still wheat always loses to blurry wheat.





khaaan  ·  4277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Foregrounds are hard to find or have been for me at least. I have been trying to apply the rules etc, but i get lost in the moment when i find something i think looks good.

Iam enjoying it all non the less.

kleinbl00  ·  4277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Make the effort. Remember - photography is the knack of turning perspective into art. Finding foreground is often simply a matter of getting on the ground:

As an artist, the object of invoking perspective is to place the audience in the viewpoint you have chosen. When you omit foreground, you are saying "there is something far away, distant and remote from you." When you instead put it up to your feet:

You are saying "you stand before a vista. Look."

The waterfall images you've got are great. Personal preference only, I only go B&W when the coloration is heinously boring AND the texture really pops. And, if you're going to go B&W, crank the shit out of the contrast in Lightroom so that you can really see it.

But that's just my take on it. Anybody can teach you how to take pictures. Nobody can teach you how to take your pictures.

khaaan  ·  4275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I struggle with colour i dont know what to do with it but i will work on it as ive seen lots of photos that id like to be able to achive similar looks etc. I try to plan shots but i should plan harder and have a more thought out aproach.

kleinbl00  ·  4275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you aren't using Lightroom or Aperture you should be. Bridge doesn't cut it and Photoshop is way too complicated for working with photos these days.

I'm a fan of Lightroom, which is saying something considering how much I hate all things Adobe.

ike  ·  4277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really like how few periods you use in your sentences; it's really efficient.

khaaan  ·  4276 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thats why i take pictures instead of writing

steve  ·  4277 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I have been trying to apply the rules etc

which rules?

khaaan  ·  4275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

general rules of thumb