Al Kaplan
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People are part of the landscape, just as much as deer or birds.
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Why Do I Take Landscapes, etc?
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Vics
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Landscapes...
Landscapes...
An old pro once told me that people's preferences in photos run in this order: 1) Themselves and people they know, 2) people they don't know and 3) Everything else. Number 3 runs a VERY distant third. After 40 years working away at photography, I NEVER shoot anything without people in the picture anymore. Mostly I like my portraits. Mostly portraits of my grandkids. Saving a lot of money on film lately, and a lot of time in the darkroom.
Vic
Landscapes...
An old pro once told me that people's preferences in photos run in this order: 1) Themselves and people they know, 2) people they don't know and 3) Everything else. Number 3 runs a VERY distant third. After 40 years working away at photography, I NEVER shoot anything without people in the picture anymore. Mostly I like my portraits. Mostly portraits of my grandkids. Saving a lot of money on film lately, and a lot of time in the darkroom.
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rphenning
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I love mixing the two, getting a solid landscape with someone doing something in it. Or to it?
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Same here, one of the few things I look forward in Texas Summer is the gorgeous parade of clouds and spectacular sunsets. But people around me are oblivious to them, even those who are photographers. 😱
So here's a long distance cheer from one sky-admirer to another 😉
jwcat
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I watched a PBS Masters segment on Art Sinsabaugh last night. He was using a 12x20 banquet camera to shoot panoramas of the mid-west skylines . He later included people portraits in his shots, as a part of the overall picture. I am glad that I recorded the program. I usually am not impressed with panoramas, but I wish I could get a look at some of those prints hanging somewhere.
I wondered what he could have done with shots of Western Alaska where I lived from '78-'81. Some "outsiders" would come there and get sick from the never ending horizon. Especially true in the summer with the LONG shadows from a nine PM sun. The highest living thing was a Willow bush, about three feet high, with a cloud of mosquitoes behind each bush. I worked as a broadcast engineer at the local PBS TV and NPR radio station(KYUK). We did a lot of recording of the Yupik culture that was slowly going away. The Natives were working hard to keep their culture, and I think we helped. Sadly I was not taking pictures anymore at that time. My son was using my Canon FT for high school paper. At least one hundred thousand missed opportunities.
I wondered what he could have done with shots of Western Alaska where I lived from '78-'81. Some "outsiders" would come there and get sick from the never ending horizon. Especially true in the summer with the LONG shadows from a nine PM sun. The highest living thing was a Willow bush, about three feet high, with a cloud of mosquitoes behind each bush. I worked as a broadcast engineer at the local PBS TV and NPR radio station(KYUK). We did a lot of recording of the Yupik culture that was slowly going away. The Natives were working hard to keep their culture, and I think we helped. Sadly I was not taking pictures anymore at that time. My son was using my Canon FT for high school paper. At least one hundred thousand missed opportunities.
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andydrew
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I agree, I think a landscape/cityscape is infinitely more interesting to look at when there's a human element to it.
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