This can be very attractive, especially when the object of focus connects both halves of the picture. Right in the middle, it creates a distinct graphic image. For instance, placed extremely high up, it puts the emphasis on the foreground.įurther down, it complies with our normal perspective. Its effect changes with each different placement within your frame. With a wide-angle lens, the line of the horizon stretches considerably further to the left and right. Its thin line, some 5 to 10 miles away, may vitally shape the picture even when the subject is right in front of my lens. Amazingly, the distant horizon can have quite an impact on close-up objects. However, in a two-dimensional photograph it gets a different importance by drawing a line that may well divide an image in two halves. The horizon is a natural part of our perception of space. I find it worthwhile mentioning this first because once one is aware of it, working consciously with the horizon in the background will help enormously when designing a photograph and trying to tell a story in a single shot. This thin line so far away can be surprisingly dominant when it comes to taking pictures. It took me some time to realize the importance of the horizon in a picture. This is what my experiences and photographic challenges have taught me. To create emotional images, I had to learn some basic rules about landscape photography. Therefore, on many of my assignments, these played an expressive role in my pictures. In contrast to studio photography, outdoor scenes are often tied in with landscapes. Surely this is the essence of a good picture? Landscape photography offers numerous ways to achieve such atmospheric images. And yet, beyond straight documentation, photography does have the ability to communicate atmosphere and emotions and even preserving these for posterity. A picture is just visual and all the rest is left up to the imagination of the viewer. Naturally, being in the midst of a landscape filled with sounds, smells, and air movements, quite differs from merely looking at an image of it.
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