There are many photographers in this world who seem to
favor landscape photography more over any of the other types of photography.
Personally speaking I like it when my photographs have some element of life in
it be it human or not, but I can see where sweeping shots of rolling hills,
toiling seas and endless skies does have an impact on the viewer.
To my
mind there are two distinctly different types of landscape photography around.
That of the natural landscape photography, and that of the urban landscape
photography. Both have their pros and both have their cons, and it’s really up
to the photographer and their sense of imagination to get across to us a grand
scene.
Be that
as it may though, to get a decent landscape photography shot you don’t need to
travel to far and distant lands, in fact you don’t even need to leave your
home. To start your landscape photography you can just take a ride on out to
your back, or front yard, and have a quick go there to see how well you can
make this everyday setting into something extraordinary.
Of
course the fun with traveling to far and distant lands to get your landscape
photography shots is that most of the hard work has already been done for you.
The scenes have already been set to perfection and there’s always going to be
some really great vantage point that you can go to, to take your pictures. The
trouble with going it at home is that you need to set the shot up for yourself.
You need to see the good in your yard and you need to be able to translate that
into something that doesn’t look like your back yard.
Landscape
photography is not an easy task, but it is well worth the try as you open
yourself up to the vast array of possibilities and you learn to think outside
of the box. So the next time you go to far and distant lands you won’t just be
taking the same old boring shot that everyone before you has, instead you’ll be
looking at the various possibilities to be had from different angles and how
you can possibly accomplish landscape photography.
Like I said earlier there are two types of landscape photography
and natural landscape photography is one of them. Landscape photography of this
variety is what you see most of the time. Shots of lightning streaking down
from the sky, tumbling waterfalls, roiling seas and densely packed green
foliage from the middle of a rainforest, we’ve seen them all and yet we keep coming
back for more. We never tire of seeing these glorious photographs, just as we
never tire of seeing the more mundane landscape shots either.
The ones taken
of the more tranquil scenes, of ponds filled with lily pads, of gardens filled
with riotous flowers, and of mile upon mile of rolling farmland stretching out
into the distance as far as the eye can see. These all appeal to us and what
appeals to us most is what we will also try to photograph.
The urban jungle
on the other hand is not something that appeals to everybody. Some find it to
be too stark and prefer instead the landscape photography view of nature. But
the urban jungle is a truly magnificent place in which you can get lost and
take the most amazing pictures. You just need to know where and how to look.
There are so many interesting sights that we take for granted and pass by
everyday without thinking twice about it.
It’s only when
the truly inspired landscape photographer takes a look into this little world
of ours and sees it for what it is and shoots it, that we also see the beauty
in it. As you can see, and as you have seen in the past, landscape photography
doesn’t need to be only about Nature’s landscapes, it can also be about the
magnificence of man-made landscapes as well.
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