I don't have many options around here. there is one scene that is nice, but it has a barn in it. Would a building be ok, or do you think that will bring down votes based on meeting the challenge?
Thanks,
JD Anderson
By the way, I got a POTD at DPC today in Digital Art! Whoo hoo!!
congrats! that's what you get when your user ID and name are different ;) definitely digital art, and definitely very nice. i wouldn't know where to start to create something like it :)
just my personal opinion on that landscape thing: i think a building / buildings are fine. they might even enhance the photo. other people may have other opinions though ...
I think one barn would be okay, as it is kinda part of the mood of the landscape, however i think too many man made things in the landscape would start being overpowering and detract from the score i would give.
I'll be in Washington DC this weekend. How's about a nightshot of the Lincoln Memorial, with the Washington Memorial and the Captiol Building in the background?
If taken at just the right time, maybe I could get the setting sun to give Air Force One flying low overhead an orangish-gold glow.
(Just kidding...)
Thanks for the comments on the digital photo. I started playing with it with a certain effect in mind. I couldn't produce the effect I wanted and it slowly (like over two hours) evolved into that image. Lots of time, not what I intended, but still good!! :)
I think barns are fine in landscapes. but don't go out and shoot those brigt-red-just-put-into-the-ground barns. If a building is put into a landscape it is much better if the building is rundown as if the land has reclaimed it. And what does POTD mean?
I think that often a building (windmill, barn, church), city/village profile on the horizon, other human elements is what makes the landscape. It should be no problem to even include humans.
NG's field guide deliberatly includes buildings and humans to make the landscape interesting.
How sharp a knife does a person need to split a hair, anyway : ) ?
One as sharp as Occam's Razor?...for some reason this reminds me of the logo for the National Association of Professional Bureaucrats: a giant pair of scissors cutting red tape...lengthwise!
quite personally I think that the barn in this picture has detracted too much attention from those beautiful well lit mountains. Had the lighting on both been the same maybe it would fit more snug into the landscape.
quite personally I think that the barn in this picture has detracted too much attention from those beautiful well lit mountains. Had the lighting on both been the same maybe it would fit more snug into the landscape.
According to my dictionary, landscape is everything that you can see when you look across an area of land, including hills, rivers, buildings, and trees. Does that apply to landscape photography? Can one take a river scene? Or a beach scene?
POTD is a Photo of the Day win at //www.Digitalphotocontest.com. There are quite a few DPChallengers whoalso compete at that site!
POTD actually means a Picture of the Day win at ANY of the multitude of sites that run daily photo contests. But congrats to smellyfish anyway for his great win at DPContest!
I think that if you have the building in your landscape photo then it would not really be a landscape photo. It would be a architecture/landscape photo. Like the photo above with the houses in front of the mountain, what really is the subject the house or the landscape? I would say no to the barn unless you can take the picture in a way that the mountains or landscape over power the barn.
a "SCAPE" is a scenic view. The predominate feature of the photo would determine what type of scape it is, be it land, sea, city, river, cloud etc. Any combination of features may be included in a LANDscape but LAND should be what the viewer sees as the subject. Would a photo of a cornfield be a landscape?....probably. With a barn in it?...maybe.
With a naked lady in it? No, that would be a nude.
just my penny's worth
I just wish that this challenge was titled "Scenic View" instead of Landscape! At leat then I could enter the picture that I like with out fear of being voted down for it, cause after reading all these forums, the picture I have chosen will NOT fit into landscape! Am expecting MANY comments, this is not landscape! But have decided to take Jmselterzs (sorry about the spelling!) advice and do my own thing (even though lately being totally voted down for it). But Photography is surely a means of expression and surely not a set of rules. We do enough of this in our everyday lives to be also doing it in the area of life we all surely love, photography!
land-scape (land'skap')n. 1.A view or vista of scenery on land. 2.A painting, photograph, etc., depicting such a scene.
This leaves a little room for interpetation, but some of the photos I saw in the competition were way off! It's too bad, because some of them were really nice photos. I don't mean to seem critical, but aren't we supposed to be critical in such matters?
