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Is taking a picture of a single tree a requirement of being a photographer
Jun 7, 2020 14:59:38 #
This one made me turn around and go back. I call it "Defying Progress"
Jun 7, 2020 15:13:49 #
ecurb
Loc: Metro Chicago Area
grandpaw wrote:
I follow and watch a lot of photography videos and I am wondering a what point does taking a photo of an individual tree become a requirement. A lot of photographers seem to do this. It really hasn't appealed to me, is there something I am missing? They seem to go on and on about the composition and how beautiful the scene of the single tree is. I don't get it! What am I missing???
Yes, it's part of your apprenticeship. You can't get your journeymans ticket without it, preferably in sepia tone.
Jun 7, 2020 15:17:10 #
grandpaw wrote:
I follow and watch a lot of photography videos and I am wondering a what point does taking a photo of an individual tree become a requirement. A lot of photographers seem to do this. It really hasn't appealed to me, is there something I am missing? They seem to go on and on about the composition and how beautiful the scene of the single tree is. I don't get it! What am I missing???
Sometimes 1 tree is a very complex work of nature
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Jun 7, 2020 15:33:03 #
To quote Rongnongno: Trees are symbols! And, I agree with that at least 1000%. Yesterday I saw a yucca by the side of the road I take to get to my local Costco. Because it was in full bloom, I stopped to take a picture of it. And the picture, to my way of thinking, is gorgeous, all by itself with its creamy flowers against the blue sky. It's in the camera in my car otherwise I'd upload it.
I grew up very near Olympic National Park and nearly annual trips to its rainforest persuaded me that trees and individual flower blooms were going to be my photographic focus. And, except for two pictures that I took in Europe (Denmark and France), my top ten pictures of all time are all trees and flowers. No. 11 is a picture of JFK at the Veterans Day ceremony with the flag of Florida blowing in the wind at Arlington above his head, about 10 days before he was killed.
The #11 is the only one that has any people in it!
I think this has mostly to do with the fact that I travelled mostly with my parents when they were still alive and, when they'd see me getting my cameras out, they'd disappear.
I'm jes' sayin'.
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I grew up very near Olympic National Park and nearly annual trips to its rainforest persuaded me that trees and individual flower blooms were going to be my photographic focus. And, except for two pictures that I took in Europe (Denmark and France), my top ten pictures of all time are all trees and flowers. No. 11 is a picture of JFK at the Veterans Day ceremony with the flag of Florida blowing in the wind at Arlington above his head, about 10 days before he was killed.
The #11 is the only one that has any people in it!
I think this has mostly to do with the fact that I travelled mostly with my parents when they were still alive and, when they'd see me getting my cameras out, they'd disappear.
I'm jes' sayin'.
🙋 virginia
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Jun 7, 2020 15:40:35 #
An individual iconic tree in many kinds of settings has always been some of my favorite subjects.I can't say why. Possibly because so many are published and I subconsciously feel challenged?
Jun 7, 2020 16:45:18 #
grandpaw wrote:
I follow and watch a lot of photography videos and I am wondering a what point does taking a photo of an individual tree become a requirement. A lot of photographers seem to do this. It really hasn't appealed to me, is there something I am missing? They seem to go on and on about the composition and how beautiful the scene of the single tree is. I don't get it! What am I missing???
For some reason I find it difficult to find a "solitary tree" would llove to find an oldie 400 plus years old isolated tree and photograph during different conditions...hopefully light painted one night under clear sky with lots of stars or moon in background.I am attracted to the idea of a subject expressing it's individualism..individual portrait VS. group photo..in this case the tree or any other subject may be better isolated by not being surrounded by other trees..but that is just my opinion..everyone should photograph what they most enjoy..
Jun 7, 2020 16:47:50 #
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Jun 7, 2020 17:05:34 #
bbrowner wrote:
I agree with you about cotton candy water. As to sunsets... these days, sunsets, skies and sun's rays may or may not be real.
Yes sunsets can be mostly fabrications but by “real” I meant “representational” of things we really sometimes do get to see.
Even the most manipulated sunsets strive to depict something we’ve all seen once upon a rare evening. Cotton candy water is something alien to our human vision. Reality-wise it might(?) represent some fact of fluid dynamics but it is VISUALLY quite unreal.
Somewhere there’s a photo of a classic Mississippi riverboat steaming upriver towards a big, beautiful, low, full moon. (For those living far from North America: FYI upriver would be northward.) IOW it’s something impossible to ever see.
Jun 7, 2020 17:28:25 #
They took all the trees
And put them in a museum
They charge the photographers
A dollar and a half to see them
And put them in a museum
They charge the photographers
A dollar and a half to see them
Jun 7, 2020 17:56:37 #
Jun 7, 2020 18:07:38 #
User ID wrote:
Yes sunsets can be mostly fabrications but by “rea... (show quote)
I took a look at your work and I find it very ironic that as much as you like the highly processed look you’re complaining about long exposure water photos looking alien.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:56:34 #
Amator21
Loc: California
Thank you. Did I guess correctly that you did NOT do any PP on your lovely Maine picture?
Jun 7, 2020 18:57:53 #
Amator21 wrote:
You forgot to use quote reply again Thank you. Did I guess correctly that you did NOT do any PP on your lovely Maine picture?
Yes, I did pp. The photo was taken in central Washington State. Sadly, I haven't been back to Maine for a decade. Thanks for your interest.
Jun 7, 2020 19:43:12 #
Photographer Jim, that is a great photo. What type of tree was it? Where is that?
Jun 7, 2020 19:47:22 #
Photographer Jim wrote:
Sometimes an image simply “works”. When it does, t... (show quote)
Hi, I just noticed the quote reply instruction an realized that my responses to photos on HH were probably sent to everyone except the person I was trying to respond to..
In any case, love the photo.
What type of tree was it? and Where is that?
Thanks.
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