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Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 10:15:11 No.3638170 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>3638175 >>3638241 >>3638278 >>3638280 >>3638605 >>3638647

>love landscape photography
>cycle out into the country, anywhere in a 25mile/40km radius
>everywhere is just wheat fields, country roads and trees
>every time I go out and take pics I come back with the exact same things
>no time and not much money to travel

What can I do? I'm totally out of motivation to shoot right now because of this

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 10:26:00 No.3638175 Report

Quoted By: >>3638177

>>3638170
Everyone has ups and down. If you really love it, you will continue doing what you're already doing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 10:54:00 No.3638177 Report

Quoted By: >>3638235 >>3638605

>>3638175
but I don't wanna take the same few photos of boring fields. i've already done it so many times

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 12:00:33 No.3638190 Report

Quoted By: >>3638196

Then take photos of villages, cities or people. I don't understand that if you are bored with doing X, you keep doing it instead of trying out Y or Z.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 12:35:13 No.3638196 Report

Quoted By: >>3638615

>>3638190
Except that every village here looks the same and it isn't particularly what I'm interested in. (Really, when you've seen on village here, you've seen them all)

As for people, I actually really enjoy my results when I do street photography, but I live in LITERALLY the worst country to do it in (Germany). People here are extremely conscious of privacy and they won't let you take pictures of them at all. Even when they don't say anything, I get awful looks and it just makes it not fun. This is also the reason why I dislike shooting in cities, well, than and the fact that I'm just really bad at it. I have no idea how to frame shots of buildings, and I just come back with a load of snapshits of random, uninteresting objects

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 14:36:06 No.3638223 Report

Quoted By: >>3638238 >>3638263

Germany, like all of Europe, has a lot to offer. Just think that for most people from Asia and America, what you see as normal and boring is exotic and different.

Look for what's traditional and tipically german and document it. Look for stuff that is about to change (public buildings under renovation, construction sites) and take pictures of the before-during-after... Just think of a story to tell and tell it.

One of the best and most interesting threads I've seen in this board was made by a guy working in a shit town in China for a year.

It was an industrial city with zero interesting spots, so he took pictures of a field he saw from his window, but he thought they were snapshits at the beginning.
Eventually it became a construction site, some parts got destroyed by a storm, even a dead kid was found one day and it turned into a crime scene for a couple of days... None of it would have been interesting without the context of the previous work he had already done, so just go out and shoot. Time and a bit of luck will turn your pictures into an interesting work once you put them all together.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 15:09:27 No.3638235 Report

Quoted By: >>3638263

>>3638177
Look at a million other similar pictures that others have done, find elements you want to incorporate into your own and go from there. Just keep doing

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 15:18:08 No.3638238 Report

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>>3638223
Could you link to that thread anon?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 15:25:55 No.3638241 Report

Quoted By: >>3638263 >>3638280 >>3638314

>>3638170
Landscape photography is about timing, patience, and special moments of light and weather. People seem to make the wrong assumption that since landscapes are 'static' they can just go and shoot them whenever.

Go sit around in one of those fields starting an a hour or two before sunset and staying until after the sun sets. You'll find those fleeting, special moments and more worthwhile images.

Shitty pic unrelated

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 15:31:14 No.3638242 Report

Quoted By: >>3638263

OP how did you take that shot I like
It

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 17:17:56 No.3638263 Report

Quoted By: >>3638291

>>3638242
what do you mean by how did I take it? like my camera settings or? pic related if that's what you meant, but if not, I took this one from very low to the ground to that you couldn't see the trees over the very small hill that's pictured. sorry if I didn't answer your question, I'm not sure what you meant

>>3638241
>>3638235
>>3638223
Thank you anons, I'll keep all of this in mind for when I get back out when quarantine is over, I'm saving your replies. I think the main thing is that I keep taking pics instead of sitting inside and moping

NatureGuy !!tg3hbUo06u8

NatureGuy !!tg3hbUo06u8 Fri 10 Apr 2020 17:46:18 No.3638278 Report

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>>3638170
I know your pain. A good strategy though perhaps not so since you're on a bike is to focus on going during rarer weather conditions. More than even location singular lighting and weather can make or break a landscape.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 17:48:24 No.3638280 Report

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>>3638170
why not try some other styles. Macro, abstract, portrait. You could also try staging some kind of subject to be in the photo. Otherwise >>3638241

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 18:41:24 No.3638291 Report

Quoted By: >>3638293 >>3638295

>>3638263
No I mean like any filters? How did you get the sky so blue mine are always overexposed.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 18:53:50 No.3638293 Report

Quoted By: >>3638321

>>3638291
nah no filters, just post processing in lightroom, it makes it really easy for you. the translated red text you see is on the sliders I used to correct the sky

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 18:54:22 No.3638295 Report

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>>3638291
not op but for landscapes a polarizing filter or ND is usually recommended, at least during the bulk of the day. Using selective brush edits is also good so you can adjust the exposure on the sky and ground independently. Another option is having the camera take two photos, one where the sky is exposed properly and one for the ground and combine them

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 19:58:36 No.3638314 Report

Quoted By: >>3638576

>>3638241
this. i grew up in the canadian prairies (regarded as a very flat, boring place) when i was first starting to take photography seriously as a hobby. wait for the light and try to find significance in the mundanity. pic related is one of the first pics after i realized that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Apr 2020 20:08:04 No.3638321 Report

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>>3638293
thanks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Apr 2020 12:17:48 No.3638576 Report

Quoted By: >>3638632

>>3638314
Good catch! I think the compositing could be improved, but you've caught a really interesting moment with the light on parts of the landscape and the dark wall of clouds in the background.

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Anonymous Sat 11 Apr 2020 13:57:48 No.3638605 Report

Quoted By: >>3638665

>>3638170
>>3638177
>I don't want to keep taking pics of the same things
>but I also don't want to travel / move to more interesting looking places
Go on a road trip or completely change your life anon idk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Apr 2020 14:25:41 No.3638615 Report

Quoted By:

>>3638196
>I get awful looks
isnt that what street photography is

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Apr 2020 15:07:50 No.3638632 Report

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>>3638576
Thanks, this shot is five years old I believe. I wasn't too experience with editing back then.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 11 Apr 2020 16:15:09 No.3638647 Report

Quoted By: >>3641435

>>3638170
>everywhere is just wheat fields, country roads and trees
then learn to get good at shooting wheat fields, country roads, and trees

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Apr 2020 17:01:09 No.3638665 Report

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>>3638605
if you actually got "but I also don't want to travel / move to more interesting looking places" then you have the reading comprehension of a dead monkey

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2020 18:35:32 No.3641435 Report

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>>3638647
Only answer that matters.

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