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xzzy posted:At the risk of turning this into a semantics argument, none of those images you linked would be classified as a "landscape". 
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I love it when threads devolve into these discussions. 
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Mar 20, 2013 21:08
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All pictures are worthless.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:13
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posting a landscape
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Mar 20, 2013 21:14
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dukeku posted:posting a landscape I see rocks so clearly it's a landscape.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:21
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xzzy posted:I see rocks so clearly it's a landscape. FYI, there are rocks in Illinois.
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None of these are taken in Illinois, but certainly places people often consider boring: South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Southern Wisconsin Those are all pictures I just took while driving through, conditions being what they were. Even if you don't want to find expression in the unending flatness itself, all you have to do is find a body of water or a forest. I know you could find scenes in rural Illinois much like these:      This is probably too many pictures, but hopefully they serve to reinforce the point that there is beauty everywhere.
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Go to fermilab and photograph some buffalo. Or the accelerator ring. Either would make for a nice landscape. e. east river south dakota is boring, I don't care what you say. gently caress em. e2. the black hills and the badlands own bones though. And we have rocks.  Open Cut by MrDespair, on Flickr  DSC_0031.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Dr. Despair fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 20, 2013 |
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Mar 20, 2013 21:24
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Is this a landscape? I don't see any rocks   Sand Ridge by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr
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Mar 20, 2013 21:30
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actually it's sand (yes there are sand dunes in illinois)
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Mr. Despair posted:e. east river south dakota is boring, I don't care what you say. gently caress em. I still think those two links I posted of eastern South Dakota are pretty, but you're right that they have nothing on the Black Hills.  MrBlandAverage posted:actually it's sand (yes there are sand dunes in illinois) Sand is rock!
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Mar 20, 2013 21:34
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Sand is just really small rocks.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:34
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vote_no posted:I still think those two links I posted of eastern South Dakota are pretty, but you're right that they have nothing on the Black Hills. One of those pics is west river, the other one is a freak exception. 
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Mr. Despair posted:One of those pics is west river, the other one is a freak exception. Yeah, but come on -- that first one looks like typical east river terrain. What I love best about eastern South Dakota / North Dakota is when you're driving along and the patches of trees on the horizon and trees in the foreground interact with each other, especially at sunrise or sunset. Haven't been able to properly capture this even with video, let alone photography. I haven't had much reason to go there, but now I think I will take a photography trip some day just to have some great photos of Eastern South Dakota. I take it you won't let me count pictures taken along the Missouri River, even if they're so East they're almost in Iowa? fake edit: Aha, I found another one! It's at least 10 miles from the river! 
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The landscapes are fine, it's the people who live there. Sioux Falls  Also matters where you are too, northeast south dakota is a lot more hilly than south east, for the most part.
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Mr. Despair posted:Go to fermilab and photograph some buffalo. Or the accelerator ring. Been there, done that. https://picasaweb.google.com/112445735250237164731/Fermilab02 (all shots were taken within 6 months of me purchasing my first DSLR, I don't actually like any of these pictures anymore) I'm not trying to argue that there's nothing to photograph in Illinois. But I can't convey what I am trying to say without sounding like a shitheel, so I'll drop it. Other than photographing corn is loving boring. I stand firm on that topic.
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Mar 20, 2013 21:58
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Make it less boring.
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xzzy posted:Other than photographing corn is loving boring. I stand firm on that topic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/7985827355/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyoming_1/5077592498/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcdead/3614080324/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/35881121@N06/3724020618/ Nothing is boring if you find an interesting way to photograph it.
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xzzy posted:I'm not trying to argue that there's nothing to photograph in Illinois. But I can't convey what I am trying to say without sounding like a shitheel, so I'll drop it. I understand you are saying Same Ol poo poo. I wish I had cornfields to shoot, I'm sick of loving mountains. Don't use that as an excuse to NOT shoot. Go out and shoot. Shoot the same ol poo poo in a different way. Go explore - make it about exploring and not about taking photos. Go for a random drive, a hike or a bike, you'll find something.
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xzzy posted:I'm not trying to argue that there's nothing to photograph in Illinois. But I can't convey what I am trying to say without sounding like a shitheel, so I'll drop it. At least you'll have corn to shoot, I don't even have land to shoot, just buildings.
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xzzy posted:I'm not trying to argue that there's nothing to photograph in Illinois. But I can't convey what I am trying to say without sounding like a shitheel, so I'll drop it. Bring a normal or slightly long prime lens, move your butt to the outskirts of a town/city where you're close to the countryside. Go walk along roads looking at all kinds of details. Shoot small things. Put those small things into a context. Main point: Landscape photography isn't limited to wide angle lenses and giant vistas.
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nielsm posted:Main point: Landscape photography isn't limited to wide angle lenses and giant vistas. 70-200 4L is my favorite landscape lens.
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 Patapsco Valley State Park Waterfall by MRBWorth, on Flickr
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I have been loving my new 24mm 1.4 I haven't picked any majorly noticeable distortion yet but I'm sure it's there I don't know how accurate this is: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lens-Distortion.aspx?FLI=0&FLIComp=0&Lens=480&Camera=453&LensComp=480
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 Sunset, As Seen From The Road Leading Up Pine Mountain by atomicthumbs, on Flickr
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dukeku posted:posting a landscape Smith rocks?
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Mar 21, 2013 04:54
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 This is old but I like it more now than I did then.
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Dread Head posted:Smith rocks? your trail-sense is correct
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Reichstag posted:
You should like it, because it's very good.
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 Vancouver by Pliv10, on Flickr  Chuckanut by Pliv10, on Flickr
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This owns but god I wish the reflection in the top of the windshield weren't there. Whitezombi posted:70-200 4L is my favorite landscape lens.
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Saint Fu posted:This owns but god I wish the reflection in the top of the windshield weren't there. Crazy talk, that's one of the best parts.
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alkanphel posted:At least you'll have corn to shoot, I don't even have land to shoot, just buildings. .... Try having just beaches, bland ones at that.
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So basically what everyone is saying is that the place where you live is the most boring place on the planet.  We need some kind of photographer exchange program, live in someone else's boring home for a month and take pictures of it.
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xzzy posted:So basically what everyone is saying is that the place where you live is the most boring place on the planet. Familiarity breeds contempt, try and approach your surroundings with naiveté.
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That won't be hard HA HA HA HA HA HA HA 
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xzzy posted:So basically what everyone is saying is that the place where you live is the most boring place on the planet.  Drive out to the corn field you see the most, or the one that for some reason bothers you the most because the farmers don't tend it well and it's ragged and depressing or something. Like it's not even doing it's job as a corn field well Stand in the corn. Hold a back up camera in your hand with a main camera a distance away for a self portrait. I think a shot something like this would be good but even wider. You need the illusion that the field stretches infinitely. A few pose options would be like a sort of forlorn look where you're holding your camera with one arm completely slack at your side as if you're going to drop it, while your gaze is looking in the opposite direction down toward the ground like the scenery isn't amusing you anymore. Or you could do like a clenched fist at the sky while you yell like the scenery has wronged you in some way, with possible violent demonstration with the camera. Or you could be on your knees crawling hands first away from a certain corn stalk like it's a mob boss who's about to take his money back and a little bit more. For more light hearted material you could stand out behind a few stalks and lean into one of the rows between the stalks, eyes looking off to the left or right of the frame with a determined face ready to escape the corn field prison. Alternative idea... Make your own corn stalk. Some abomination made up of crap that you're hoarding and should throw out but you keep anyway because you just might use it for something one day. Give it a face and some character and put it in the fields. You could do a thing where it's like a traveling corn stalk visiting all the fields until he finds the best one there is. East Lake fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Mar 22, 2013 |
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Saint Fu posted:
Especially when you stitch them  (Shot this one on a 50mm - so not that long really.) 
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