Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: biker on June 02, 2019, 04:27:22 pm
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The intended title of this shot was "Red, Red and the Rest" or just "Look!".
Before posting to the Landscape Showcase I realised: Wait! Is it a real landscape picture? Are people so close (actually a subject of the picture) allowed in the landscape work? Isn't it almost like taking a selfie with a landscape background?
You can't avoid people in certain situations. A mountain side view in Alps without colourful spots of anoraks? Only by cloning them out in the post process.
You can employ people in some situations. A rural motive with a ploughman in the background is probably okay.
But what about this picture? These two random red-headed schoolgirls actually made the picture. Seeing them there and pointing somewhere made me act briskly and promote the midday sun bleached rocks (a rubbish picture) to something hopefully acceptable. The background was partially desaturated in the post.
So where does it belong? It's not a street. It's a landscape. But is it really a landscape picture?
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It is a family-album picture.
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I wouldn't call this a landscape at all. The presence of the girls in the way they are situated shows their perspective and the conversation they are having fills the context. The finger pointing tells us the two are communicating something. This more or less is what the photo is about to me. If anything I could see it being categorized as being a travel photo.
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I wouldn't call this a landscape at all. The presence of the girls in the way they are situated shows their perspective and the conversation they are having fills the context. The finger pointing tells us the two are communicating something. This more or less is what the photo is about to me. If anything I could see it being categorized as being a travel photo.
Yep. That's the right category. Not a family photo. We don't even know if they're sisters or just friends with the same hair colour.
LuLa doesn't have such a category. Some other sites like photo.net (https://www.photo.net/search/#//Sort-Newest/Travel/Last-Month/Page-1) have and it could well be there.