Landscape photography has always captured my
interest. The scope of the images always tend to inspire me. It’s
probably the most effective method of photography to show the sizes of
geographic features by contrasting the foreground and background.
During the Wells reading, I was able to learn about landscape
photography including some technical details.
A
main distinguishing factor of landscape photography is shot to where
the horizontal side is longer than the image vertically. By shooting the
image in this way, a wider amount of information in the horizontal
plane can be displayed. Landscape photos generally include a natural
landscape or skyline to display, hence the title landscape. An
interesting technical feature of landscape photos is that they generally
follow the ‘golden rule’ of landscape photography, the sky should
occupy two thirds of the image to create harmony and create an accurate
sense of scope.
The landscape images of Jeff
Wall in the reading has a very painterly quality. In his images, he
sometimes will script an action, and then have it play it out among the
landscape. In the photo in the readings, it is paper that is carried by
the wind. This action creates motion in the image. He distorts the image
by increasing the color saturation it looks like. The effect of the
river going down the center of the image break up the landscape and it
also matches the greenness of the sky. The bending of the tree that
takes up a significant portion of the left side of the image puts the
image into perspective. It makes the people look smaller and to that
effect increases the power of the image.
The
differences between modern and postmodern landscape photography seem to
be minute. It seems that postmodern landscape attempts to change or
challenge the way we view an image. Generally it is through the title of
the image and other small details that lead us to challenge this.
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