Is taking a picture of a single tree a requirement of being a photographer (Page 2): An assignment worthy of a photographer (in class) should be take 10 pictures of the same tree, each...

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

An assignment worthy of a photographer (in class) should be take 10 pictures of the same tree, each telling something different about the tree. All photos to be critiqued in class as a group of 10 photos and individual images with the photographer's participation explaining what was the intent/purpose of each picture.

Stretch your creativity.

Grahame Loc: Fiji

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???

Pictures of trees are really no different than any subject. You can use skill, imagination and effort, or not.

User ID

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???

Just DO IT.

grandpaw

User ID wrote:

Just DO IT.

Scroll back up the page a little and you will see that I actually have taken a tree picture.

User ID

grandpaw wrote:

Maybe I can consider myself a photographer. I remember a picture I took while riding through one of the national parks in Utah a couple of years ago. This was taken from the passenger window while my good friend was showing my wife and I the parks. I not only has a tree in it, it also has kind of a patriotic red, white, and blue theme.

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Seriously, I don’t see RWB USA. I clearly see the Irish tricolor ... and I am 100% non-Irish. Plain as day to me.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

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???

Oh yes you simply cannot be a real photographer unless you photograph a single tree. You didn't know that? 😂

If you want to be a real photographer then get out there and photograph that single tree and stop complaining. You can photograph a Christmas tree if you like. It just has to be a single tree. I see you have done that already. And you have photographed single Christmas trees. So counting the tree in the park, more than once. See? You are indeed a photographer. 😂

Ok seriously, what you seem to be missing is that art is subjective. Just because you don't get it does not make it less significant. If you don't get it don't worry about it. Photograph the things you get.

However IF you really want to gain an understand what people are seeing and why they are photographing single trees, asking here is not the way to gain that understanding. I suggest you go photograph a single tree yourself. First take some time to study it. Walk around it. Look at it as the light changes. You might want to do this several times before you shoot, maybe at different times of the day (or night). A tree is a living creature on a very long time scale. Think about the tree's history, what has passed beneath it. If it could talk the stories it would tell. Then think about an aspect of it you would like to capture. When you have that idea, work to capture it. And please report back here.

FYI It doesn't have to be a single tree, it could be a stand of trees.

User ID

grandpaw wrote:

Scroll back up the page a little and you will see that I actually have taken a tree picture.

You mean the Irish tricolor scene ? Tree-wise waaaaaay too reserved. Good scene but not “The Photographer’s Tree”. No problem. Keep at it ! Your breakthrough will happen:-)

JD750 Loc: SoCal

FYI to those who posted tree pics. They are all fabulous, and emotionally moving each in their own way. Better than a 1000 words. Each. Thank you for posting.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

JD750 wrote:

FYI to those who posted tree pics. They are all fabulous, and emotionally moving each in their own way. Better than a 1000 words. Each. Thank you for posting.

I already commented, but trees are one of my favorite subjects, so I'll post some. I shoot them in color infrared.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Very unique and creative John!

JD750 Loc: SoCal

I was attempting to capture a unique angle on an old Redwood in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite CA.

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John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Stardust wrote:

Well there is that famous photo of the Lone Cyprus along the California coast. <grin>

Any tree but that one. Half of England must have seen it by now and the rest probably have but don't realise it.
Here's a link to one over here that I hope to have a go at when the C19 situation changes.

http://wanderwonder.co.uk/walk-the-lone-tree-at-llyn-padarn/

Tdearing Loc: Rockport, TX

grandpaw wrote:

Maybe I can consider myself a photographer. I remember a picture I took while riding through one of the national parks in Utah a couple of years ago. This was taken from the passenger window while my good friend was showing my wife and I the parks. I not only has a tree in it, it also has kind of a patriotic red, white, and blue theme.

You've been a true professional these last year's and didn't even know it. The rest of us however did. :)

alawry Loc: Timaru New Zealand

Down here in NZ we have a particular tree! https://www.google.com/search?q=the+wanaka+tree&client=firefox-b&sxsrf=ALeKk03OgDVdfFPFy3rgBWQXBMXDrNZVpQ:1591522820005&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwibgtrCtO_pAhXBF3IKHcJzBuYQ_AUoAXoECB0QAw&biw=1184&bih=564 I can't figure it out either... but there are a lot of nice photos. Cheers.

alphonso49uk

Its good to branch out every now and again