Thanks for the link, Daniel. I agree with Bob's saturation complaint. I can't blame him for shooting gorgeous geography, and it certainly takes effort to get to some of those places. I think the window is closing on me ever being able to physically get to some of those places, even if I had the wherewithal to plan on such a trip.
I sort of get tired of the philosophy that beauty is only to be found at the seashore or in the mountains. I highly recommend reading William Least Heat Moon's book "Prairy Erth" in which he dissects Chase County Kansas in every way that you can. I came away from reading it with an ability to see beauty in the road ditches of my "flyover" state of Nebraska. In other words, anybody can have their breath taken away by a sunrise illuminating a snow-covered mountain top, but I think it is a greater challenge to find stunning images in the minutia of a more everyday life. I did take a couple of things out of Yiming Hu's series. http://www.yiminghuphoto.com/portfolio/landscape/OH-102.jpg We get dense fog regularly here in the Platte River Valley. Fog can hide an ugly background and allow you to isolate a subject. And shooting into the sun can be effective in fog. I'm going to make a note to try more of that. Similarly, the low-lying fog is something we get at times. It makes a good picture into a great one: http://www.yiminghuphoto.com/portfolio/landscape/KY-104.jpg I also liked how he avoided the temptation to place himself squarely in the middle of the lane (which is probably what I would have done). Or maybe he did for some shots, but like this one best. This one struck my eye as a fake (combo of 2 shots): http://www.yiminghuphoto.com/portfolio/landscape/bashang-110.jpg The light in the sky really doesn't match the light on the ground, to my eye. There also seems to be a telltale border to the sky where it meets the ground on the right hand side of the pic. But I could be wrong. On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Saturation's made my eyeballs bleed. > > It looks as though he's gone to all the places everyone else goes to, taken > the same photos, and cranked the saturation up to 11. > > Painful, dull, no personal vision (he stole Ken Rockwell's). > > B > > On 11 Aug 2013, at 22:56, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.yiminghuphoto.com/portfolio/landscape.php >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
