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Eyüp KARAKUŞ photo

Photo by Nazar Zhovnirchyk

Photo by InNaDin

Photo by Ludvik Danek

Hans Kruse photo

My name is Hans Kruse and I'm an experienced landscape and nature photographer. Landscapes have been a special addiction for many years. Landscape pictures worth looking at are not so easy to take and many of my first landscape pictures have been deleted for the same reason, but I saw many great landscape photos from the masters and felt it could be learned how to take these magnificent photos. As with everything it takes a lot of time, effort, money, pain, etc. to get beyond the beginners stage and start to master a given area. I learned that in my former professional work in the IT industry and how much it took. There is a saying that it takes 10.000 hours to become an expert in a given field. Doing photography is in that respect no different than any other craft. It's not just about technology like which camera system you have and what tools you have, it's much more about learning to see with your eyes and select carefully what you want to show. Select what works from what doesn't work is a critical element to work on before you even lift the camera view finder to your eyes. Selecting the time of year, the time of day, the weather conditions, the details are critical elements of getting a photo that is worth looking at. Technical understanding and mastering necessary techniques are essential to present your vision into real photos. For a landscape photographer I believe it is essential to travel a lot to get inspired and spend enough time at a given location to get some really good interpretations of the landscapes available at that location. A new landscape can open your eyes in a way unimaginable and it can inspire to see known landscapes in a new way. I also enjoy shooting wild life in nature and I will typically every year make some trips for that sole purpose.

No matter if you shoot landscapes, wild life, portraits, street life, etc. you need to pay a lot of attention to composition, light, selection of scene and basically decide what is in the picture and what is not. That process is essential to get good photos and will require you to walk around a lot to get the viewpoint that will allow you to frame the subjects in an interesting and possibly pleasing way (and not necessarily the aspect ratio of the camera!). Training in seeing can be difficult as it is a process of being critical to your own work. One way is to participate in critique forums where you post your images for critique and critique the work of other photographers. Sometimes such critique can give you thoughts to how to progress in your photography and also frustrate you when the critique doesn't give you a real hint to how to move on. It is also quite useful to logon to internet bookstores like Amazon.com and search for photo books about the big masters and often they can be found at a very good price and have enormous value for you vision. One particular photographer I would recommend to look at is Sebastiao Salgado since he combines in his work many aesthetic elements that has value in different types of photography, including landscape photography. Searching the internet for great photographers is easy and although the image quality of their work is often not presented very well on the web, it is still a good source for inspiration. Exhibitions as well and not to forget landscape painters. A critical look at landscape painters and how they compose their images can be a great source of inspiration for the landscape photographer. Also many podcasts area available on many photographic subjects. I find the most easy way to find these by using iTunes and look them up in the iTunes Store under Podcasts, Arts and Visual Arts. Many of these are done by experienced educators and photographers and can be a great inspiration to find new angles on your photography.

I have photographed for many years since shooting b/w film and develop in the dark room, however the most intense period has been in the digital age where I would have the full control over the process from taking the image, post process it on my computer and eventually print it in high quality. For me the creative feedback loop of taking images, look at them and repeat the process to get what I would like to see, has been so more productive in the digital age and so much more efficient.

read more here http://hanskrusephotography.zenfolio.com/

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Elgin Park Project by Michael Paul Smith

For over 25 years, Michael Paul Smith has been creating detailed scale models. Elgin Park is a virtual community containing a collection of 1/24 scale recreations of everyday scenes from mid-20th century America. An accomplished artist, Smith describes his photos as stories; each a self-contained miniature play inviting the viewer into his memories and imagination.

Model making has taken a serious economic hit over the years. What used to be a thriving business has now folded due to increased technology. With computer generated graphics and automated 3D model making machines, old methods are no longer time or cost effective methods, especially with raised production levels overseas. Whilst many people still build models and take photos of them for their hobbies, very few put so much time, effort and craftsmanship into their projects as Michael Paul Smith and the resulting photos by are astounding. Elgin Park is discovered by online viewers usually via the image and video hosting website, Flickr. A usual tagline accompanied with the link to Smith’s account is usually along the lines of ‘Cars of the past … real or models?’

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