Landscape Photography over Portrait Photography
Aug 6, 2013 12:46:11 #
Just finished up my vacation and last stop was Akron, Ohio, visiting relatives. My wife then took a 4 day bus tour to NYC with her mother. I was kinda bored sitting around so I decided to go out and do some landscape/architectural type photography. I never really did much of it and usually that was as boring as watching paint peeling. I have to say I really got in to it. I photographed the old rubber bowl stadium that will soon be tore down, the goodyear blimp hangar, my wife's grandad's old farm, etc....like i said, I really started to get in to it.
wow....no turn your head, smile, move your arm, take one step this way, open your eyes, etc....
I have to say I was definitely in to it.
Now that i am back home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, i am going to take some nature hikes and photograph some of it's beauty.
It turned out to be a great vacation!
wow....no turn your head, smile, move your arm, take one step this way, open your eyes, etc....
I have to say I was definitely in to it.
Now that i am back home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, i am going to take some nature hikes and photograph some of it's beauty.
It turned out to be a great vacation!
Aug 6, 2013 13:13:00 #
jimberton wrote:
nature hikes and photograph some of it's beauty.
nature hikes and photograph some of it's beauty.
Jim, now you're really flirting with money.
Don't you know? That's how it starts! First, it's a little nature hike. Then a little landscape here and there. Then the things that live IN that landscape. Well, those things are birds. And birds are tiny. They're hard to see, let alone photograph. Ahhhhh, then you think, "if only I had an 800mm lens". Well, those lenses are $10,000, USED!
Oh well, a man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do, and we can't take it with us. SS
Aug 6, 2013 15:08:54 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Jim, now you're really flirting with money. br Do... (show quote)
Just get a Canon 24mm-1200mm lens!! Sells for less than $400 !!!
Comes permanently mounted to a body!! (SX50)
Can even be pushed out to a 4800mm if you want!! Just gotta be rock steady!!
Aug 6, 2013 15:16:29 #
Wahawk wrote:
Just get a Canon 24mm-1200mm lens!! Sells for less than $400 !!!
Comes permanently mounted to a body!! (SX50)
Can even be pushed out to a 4800mm if you want!! Just gotta be rock steady!!
Comes permanently mounted to a body!! (SX50)
Can even be pushed out to a 4800mm if you want!! Just gotta be rock steady!!
Wahawk, I think by "rock steady", do you mean a tripod? SS
Aug 6, 2013 15:16:35 #
Hahahaha.......so far birds haven't interested me. If birds interested me, i might as well go back to portrait shooting. Landscape doesn't have to pose.
I think i have all the gear that i need for landscape and architectural.
There's nothing on my want list. I have everything i ever wanted.
Am i doomed? Is there any hope for me?
I think i have all the gear that i need for landscape and architectural.
There's nothing on my want list. I have everything i ever wanted.
Am i doomed? Is there any hope for me?
Aug 6, 2013 15:19:10 #
Here's some of the photos i took. i decided to not open photoshop. All post processing was in my new love, LIGHTROOM.
the church my wife's family goes to
the old rubber bowl
grandad's old farm
old goodyear blimp hangar
Aug 6, 2013 15:24:34 #
Wahawk wrote:
Just get a Canon 24mm-1200mm lens!! Sells for less than $400 !!!
Comes permanently mounted to a body!! (SX50)
Can even be pushed out to a 4800mm if you want!! Just gotta be rock steady!!
Comes permanently mounted to a body!! (SX50)
Can even be pushed out to a 4800mm if you want!! Just gotta be rock steady!!
i just might have to take a look at the SX50. Thanks for the info. I am re-looking at all the gear i have and trying to figure what i really want to keep.
Aug 6, 2013 15:30:00 #
jimberton wrote:
Here's some of the photos i took. i decided to not open photoshop. All post processing was in my new love, LIGHTROOM.
Jim, nice shots. But be forewarned, that's just how it starts.
Many an innocent portrait photographer has venture into the great outdoors, doe eyed, snapped just "one shot", then the rest was a big whirlwind. Next thing they know, they are walking out the store with a shopping cart with a 1200mm lens in it and no shoes on the kids feet!!! SS
Aug 6, 2013 15:36:30 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Wahawk, I think by "rock steady", do you mean a tripod? SS
Well, that is the ultimate, but I haven't tried yet. All my SX40 and SX50 shots are hand held. Arms tucked tight to body, lean against something when possible, breathe SLLLOOOOWWWW and steady and slowly press the shutter button, don't punch it. Sometimes lean the camera or my forearms on a car, fence, or other fairly solid object
Aug 6, 2013 15:39:35 #
jimberton wrote:
i just might have to take a look at the SX50. Thanks for the info. I am re-looking at all the gear i have and trying to figure what i really want to keep.
Do a search here, enter SX50 and look at all the examples, or go to the user profiles of those who use it and look at their posts....
Mine aren't the best, but I don't think they are too bad for an old fart hand-holding it!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Aug 6, 2013 16:43:24 #
The biggest advantage of landscape photography over portrait work?
Landscapes don't offer opinions or uneducated critiques! (And neither do their relatives or friends).
Landscapes don't offer opinions or uneducated critiques! (And neither do their relatives or friends).
Aug 6, 2013 17:11:08 #
MT Shooter wrote:
The biggest advantage of landscape photography over portrait work?
Landscapes don't offer opinions or uneducated critiques! (And neither do their relatives or friends).
Landscapes don't offer opinions or uneducated critiques! (And neither do their relatives or friends).
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Aug 6, 2013 17:31:38 #
jimberton wrote:
wow....no turn your head, smile, move your arm, take one step this way, open your eyes, etc....
That's a big advantage of things over people. :D
Aug 6, 2013 17:41:22 #
MT Shooter wrote:
The biggest advantage of landscape photography over portrait work?
Landscapes don't offer opinions or uneducated critiques! (And neither do their relatives or friends).
Landscapes don't offer opinions or uneducated critiques! (And neither do their relatives or friends).
amen to that!!
Aug 6, 2013 17:42:12 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Jim, nice shots. But be forewarned, that's just how it starts.
Many an innocent portrait photographer has venture into the great outdoors, doe eyed, snapped just "one shot", then the rest was a big whirlwind. Next thing they know, they are walking out the store with a shopping cart with a 1200mm lens in it and no shoes on the kids feet!!! SS
Many an innocent portrait photographer has venture into the great outdoors, doe eyed, snapped just "one shot", then the rest was a big whirlwind. Next thing they know, they are walking out the store with a shopping cart with a 1200mm lens in it and no shoes on the kids feet!!! SS
stop it...now you are scaring me!
my kids have all grown up, so no lack of shoes.....maybe i can get them to buy me a big lens!!!!
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