Why do people shoot terrible, generic hotel artwork landscapes? Why do we want to be Thomas Heaton instead of Robert Adams?
>>4484721It's fun. What kind of landscapes do you take? I would love to see some.
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>>4484725>>4484726depressing and boring
>>4484725grey slop>>4484726blurry messyawn
>>4484721People often like to capture a feeling of "wonder" with landscapes and not emptiness/loneliness.The latter of which often comes off as pretentious.
>>4484725Why does it look like it was shot at f/32? Time to study those 'boring' landscapes, you're not at that level yet.
>>4484732It's shot at f/11
>>4484725I actually laughedthe evergreen envy of the average /p/ anon rears yet again its grotesque green visage>>4484739it’s a bad photograph >>4484732it does indeed seem like a blurry diffracted mess, among other thingsalso>tineye>0 matcheswoof
>>4484725I hope this is b8
>>4484756I get what you are trying to do op. You have gone and looked what most landscape photographers do then set out to do everything differently.The problem is you are basically stuck that you must do some sort of composition or it doesn’t work. The lack of any composition is killing these.
>>4484760I assume you just walk around with your camera randomly pointing and an alarm set for a random time on your phone and when the alarm goes off you just click whatever and wherever your camera is pointing. It’s an interesting idea, maybe keep that system but when The alarm goes off you then have to compose a shot of whatever area your camera was pointing at.
>>4484760>no compositionIt is quite obvious how diagonal lines are used. The center horizon makes it harder for the eye to rest, making the image more nervous. This may very well be intentional, given the subject matter. In both pictures, shadows are used to separate the foreground from the middle/background, where there is a strong contrast between the trees and the clear-cut. In the second image, the almost dead center horizon with the second horizontal line right by it, with the high-key trees force your eyes to look there but the diagonal light still leads the viewer comfortably towards the foreground.Whether it works for you or not is for you to decide but they don't come across as snapshots, if for no other reason than the horizon being straight and the framing being somewhat competent.
>enjoy hiking>enjoy beautiful landscapes>enjoy photography why would one not shoot photos in his circumstance?
>>4484760The other problem being that he seems to think he's special
>>4484721Based Thomas Heaton hater and Justin Jones enjoyer. Thomas Heaton looks hungover in every video.https://youtu.be/ZBT5pgFFwWo>>4484726You probably know about Nan Goldin
>>4484769What use of diagonal lines are you referring to, I can’t see any use of them?
>>4484769Doing a lengthy description of a shitty photo doesn't make it less shit
>>4484782>unironically replying to obvious LLMslopOptions field gainfully employed)
>>4484782Yeah it does. Because it strengthens his opinion.
>>4484786>the best jokes are those you need to thoroughly explain in great detail and lay out every single aspect of because people listening won't get it otherwiseOr maybe it's just a bad photo.
>>4484781Perhaps it is stretching things a bit, but there the trees in the upper one seem to imply some vague triangle which stops the sky from being blocked too hard while guiding the viewer across the center. The rhythmic nature of the vertical elements also help the viewer orient themselves sideways.
>>4484793If your critique is the same thing as a 5 year old rejecting vegetables their parents made by crying "YUCKY! EWW!" then yeah explaining why there is at least some sort of thought in composition or whatever makes sense to defend the picture.
>>4484802Ok this made me laugh, especially that top attempt at a triangle
>>4484802Kek
>>4484721>Why do peopleBecause they enjoy it
>>4484721It’s the Rockwell effect. I like your photos OP, this one for example >>4484756I guess that it would make sense in an overall body of work, one photo alone doesn’t tell me enough but I like the atmosphere I get from that one photo and would like to see more (close ups, text, whatever)
>>4484725What a provocative branch there is.
this has got to be a tripfag poking fun at the nophotos
>>4484802Bro... yellow was the worst colour to use; it looks like you spilled spaghetti on a print.Diagonal lines are fine and can work in a composition, but they need to either lead to a point of interest or obstruct something. You can't just imagine them and draw lines across whatever might be a line, maybe, in your photo.Consider that it has to read to your audience, as well. If I construct a poem of a basically random selection of words, sure, maybe you can create meaning from them when you read it. But if I know what I'm doing and carefully selective words based on associations between them, the poem is going to land a lot better.Check out my use of diagonal lines in this photographic and notice how they're not everywhere across the frame pointing at nothing nor coming from nothingForgive the file name. I was feeling very pretentious
>>4484838Curious, what do you think about the composition here?
>>4484840It's good. There's obviously two strong leading lines that move across the frame in opposite directions, though mostly right to left. This fits with the direction of movement of the character in the scene and the perspective of the fellow whose face is at about the 1/3 point from the right of the canvas. There are obviously a lot of smaller lines, but when you break it down there are major lines with extra bits and bobs to add to the chaotic feeling of the scene.
>>4484721>Why do we want to be Thomas Heaton instead of Robert Adams?Most people don't want to be jewish swindlers if you want to use the example of Adams.Also nature is pretty, the photos are perhaps redundant conceptually but people still want to shoot them themselves.
b+w landscapes seem so much more difficultlooking back at some of the landscape collages I've made for here, less than like 5% of the shots I pick are b+w
>>4484920Because you can't use the pretty colors as a crutch, you need to know how to actually compose an image, and understand how lights works
>>4484924very true, here's some moremaybe you and others can post some inspo for us, doesn't have to be your photos, but so we all can learn and improve
>>4484925Did you collect these from here?
>>4484927no, i took them all
>>4484934These are really good>>4484721I took a few classes, and the majority of people there seemed to enjoy saturated, bright, colorful photos for landscapes. Only then did they feel like it was photography, as opposed to an image a phone camera took. This mixed with a desire to take photos they saw on instagram, this style seems to be repeated and imitated over and over again.But I guess they aren't necessarily wrong, it's just a matter of preference.
>>4485139It’s about enlightenment, the average person is a child crying out for attention, me me me. They put photos online for attention so need to make it as sparkly and attention grabbing as possible. The wiser person can look at a landscape and just enjoy the beauty of nature.Now the fact, the enlightened one goes into nature, enjoys nature, has very little incentive to photograph it as a photo can’t match being their for them, or they may take a natural photo but then they have no reason to put it online.The brainlet child type however, need attention so you can guarantee the camera comes along, lots of photos taken and then posted online with attention grabbing editing.So that’s your issue, online photos self select to people desperate for attention hence here we are with the state of landscape photography.Also funny how op was just desperate for attention himself and his only complaint why somebody else getting attention other than him
>>4485161Who are good examples of landscape photographers to you?
>>4485164I like endlesstrains on Flickr.Just landscapes as they are, no crazy editing. Just blessed to live somewhere with incredible landscapes and spends a huge amount of time hiking in them.
>>4485161The irony of this engagement bait post
>>4485161>being bitter other people take more photos than you>being bitter because other peoples photos look nicer and are more popular than yours>being such a narcissist that’s proof they’re your moral inferiorsI diagnose you with virginityPeople don’t take and post nice looking photos over shitty moody shit because they are putting attention over art. They do it because they have better taste than you. Deal w/ it.
>>4484725>>4484726Fucking lolThe sticks in the foreground are so deep and meaningful. They represent the penises that are at the forefront of OP’s mind.
>>4485179Sure thing buddy, surprised to see you here, thought you needed to spend an hour liking reels on Instagram so that the algorithm will show the next photo you upload to anyone.
>>4485181You put a lot of thought into imagining other people doing things. It’s comforting to imagine that other people are dumber, and easier than imagining you’re smarter, isn’t it
>>4485177The rare good post from a namefag
>>4484802yeah i see it now
>>4485290wrong
>pretentious loser finds out he's not as special as he thinks he ismany such cases, sad!
