Landscape Photography
Landscape Photography is one of the most interesting sub branch of Fine Art Photography. It has a beauty that is often ignored by our bewilder paradigms. This is the beauty which we cannot see sometimes.
When I am making landscapes, I am enjoying it more than anything else. Landscape photography out in fields is a blessing. I usually avoid human element in the landscapes. This is because of the reason to find solitude and serenity of the Nature. It is a kind of refreshment, and by studying and enjoying it with no commitments and time frame. This is because of the very freedom it provides.
Maples In Autumn
I find this to be so tranquilizing. When you are away from the urban hustles and studying the moods of light at different times of the day. I observe and learn many aspects of light and mood from the nature.
Serenity like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
It is like training your perspective. When passing by some beautiful countryside landscape, sometimes one is missing, is the view.
Thus, as a fine art photographer, it is to train our eyes to see what the other viewer is not seeing. And visualizing it for the print, which has to be displayed later and others can then see what we have seen before.
The perspective needed for making of a beautiful scene in to a Fine Art Photograph.
I notice this lonely tree standing near the bank of Tarbela Lake around mid noon. I visualise that the tree will become contrasty in the afternoon, with some mood and color. But as the sun goes down, the clouds and the mountains become more contrasty. The lake also becomes shiny and act like a divider in the centre of the landscape.
It is providing the primary subject, which is the tree, as a more dominant figure in the landscape. The light is changing.
This is for the pictorial accuracy. In most scenes, while making photographs of different subjects, calibration is very important. The primary purpose is not to make random shots. There is a difference in making and taking of the photograph.
I was waiting for the right moment. The time when the sun comes near the mountains. As the sun touches the mountains, before the sun set I knew this is the time, and hence comes the picture of “The Lonely Tree.”