Intimate Landscape Photography: I am looking for more insight or knowledge concerning this specific area of Landscape Photography, so if anyone hear has experience or knowledge and...

Silverrails

I am looking for more insight or knowledge concerning this specific area of Landscape Photography, so if anyone hear has experience or knowledge and ideas about this specific area of Landscape Photography, please share, this also might be refered to as Up Close and Personal Landscape Photography. Your Ideas and insight will be appreciated by this Amatur Photographer and fellow UHH member.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

"Intimate" can mean several things.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Take a look at these two photos from UHH member Blenheim Orange:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-642078-1.html
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-634602-1.html#10992740

Here are some excellent articles:
https://lightscapesphotography.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-intimate-landscape/
https://annemckinnell.com/2016/04/06/intimate-landscapes/
https://artwolfe.com/2010/05/26/in-praise-of-the-intimate-landscape-guy-tal/
https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/on-location/featured-stories/the-forgotten-intimate-landscape/

Here is one of mine. Instead of a wider view of a mountain stream, I took a closer shot to reveal the play of light on the pebbles, resulting in a more abstract look.

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Amouk Photo

That would be my photography style. I usually carry my Nikon with 28-300 or 80-400, but the zoom is usually maxed out, not the whole valley, but one patch of color. Not the whole mountain but texture and shadow on the rocks.

Silverrails

jerryc41 wrote:

"Intimate" can mean several things.

I tried to describe my Photography interest in a way that would NOT be misconstrude, or misunderstood, I am hoping I get some positive feedback,knowledge and ideas, so if you might have some knowledge, insight, ideas, concerning the Subject I have presented here at UHH, I will certainly appreciate your efforts. Thank You.

Silverrails

Amouk Photo wrote:

That would be my photography style. I usually carry my Nikon with 28-300 or 80-400, but the zoom is usually maxed out, not the whole valley, but one patch of color. Not the whole mountain but texture and shadow on the rocks.

Might you share with us some of your "Intimate Landscape Photography" to offer Me or Us some creative ideas??

Silverrails

Linda From Maine wrote:

Take a look at these two photos from UHH member Bl... (show quote)

Thank You Linda, you have been helpful and I enjoyed viewing your example image.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Silverrails wrote:

I am looking for more insight or knowledge concerning this specific area of Landscape Photography, so if anyone hear has experience or knowledge and ideas about this specific area of Landscape Photography, please share, this also might be refered to as Up Close and Personal Landscape Photography. Your Ideas and insight will be appreciated by this Amatur Photographer and fellow UHH member.

IMO, David Muench's pioneering use of wide angles in his early landscape work matches the description of "intimacy" These will mostly be wide angle vertical orientations with the foreground very close and prominent and using a 4X5 tilting lens of a view camera for DEEP DOF........Check his stuff out.
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bleirer

This was one of the links from one of the articles Linda posted, seems Porter invented the genre. https://www.afterimagegallery.com/porterintimatelandscapes.htm

I think of landscape as needing a landform by definition, but unlike Porter many of the articles give examples that are primarily man made objects but call them intimate landscapes. Doesnt make sense without land.

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Silverrails wrote:

Might you share with us some of your "Intimate Landscape Photography" to offer Me or Us some creative ideas??

For me "Intimate Landscape" means details. I don't shoot a lot of them, however I have a few.

For myself I feel you need:
(1) Be very observant. (take your time and absorb the scene).
(2) Look for patterns and shapes, leading lines (understand composition).
(3) understand light.
(4) Know how to use your camera to achieve what you want (ie: understand exposure).
(5) Know how to post process your images.
(6) Shoot with like minded individuals or by yourself (keeping safety in mind).

Feel free to ask any questions.

Here are a couple of examples shot whilst on a dawn shoot at Turrimetta (one of the northern beaches, at Sydney, Australia.
#1 General view of the whole scene. Notice the patterns on the rocks - this place can be a gold mine.
#2 Detail
#3 Even closer.

#1 Turrimetta
#1 Turrimetta...

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#2 Moving in close.
#2 Moving in close....

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#3 Even closer.
#3 Even closer....

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

bleirer wrote:

This was one of the links from one of the articles Linda posted, seems Porter invented the genre. https://www.afterimagegallery.com/porterintimatelandscapes.htm

I think of landscape as needing a landform by definition, but unlike Porter many of the articles give examples that are primarily man made objects but call them intimate landscapes. Doesnt make sense without land.

In quickly scanning those articles that I hadn't looked at for a long time, but had bookmarked, I note several contradictory observations/definitions. Shouldn't be a surprise, I suppose

But, overall, I think they give a pretty good sense to the term.

In this thread, I very much like Richard's comparison of wider vs. closer view, so here are two of mine. These are from a series on "Cheat Grass," a non-native invasive species in the West that is changing the landscape - literally.

I think when you compare these two, you get an idea of typical landscape shot vs. intimate when photographing the same subject. Some articles suggest intimate doesn't simply mean "close up" and that context is important.

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via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

OMG...I had no idea I was an "intimate" landscape photographer! The term, to me, simply seems to indicate someone who is a nature photographer, which is what I'd normally call myself if I was putting a term on it. I like it, however, and might begin to use the term. I'm not totally clear on how it would differ significantly from close up photography, but maybe a subset of that as it relates to nature. I'm a big fan of upclose and personal when I shoot just about any shot. Here is a recent shot that I think fits the term of "intimate landscape."

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Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Silverrails wrote:

I am looking for more insight or knowledge concerning this specific area of Landscape Photography, so if anyone hear has experience or knowledge and ideas about this specific area of Landscape Photography, please share, this also might be refered to as Up Close and Personal Landscape Photography. Your Ideas and insight will be appreciated by this Amatur Photographer and fellow UHH member.

One guy’s ideas of “intimate landscapes:

Dave

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Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Silverrails wrote:

I am looking for more insight or knowledge concerning this specific area of Landscape Photography, so if anyone hear has experience or knowledge and ideas about this specific area of Landscape Photography, please share, this also might be refered to as Up Close and Personal Landscape Photography. Your Ideas and insight will be appreciated by this Amatur Photographer and fellow UHH member.

There is a Landscape Photography section. https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-132-1.html That might be a good place to start.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Mac wrote:

There is a Landscape Photography section. https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-132-1.html That might be a good place to start.

Most of the landscapes posted there are more traditional. There has already been excellent discussion and several great examples in this thread right here

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