Taylor's Commercial Photography Blog

Monday, November 3, 2014

Urban Style Landscapes

4 tips:
Mid to late afternoon gives you longer and softer shadows producing more interesting results.
interesting parks give you natural landscapes combined with urban landscapes to give you interesting combinations.
Good oppurtunities for beautiful images in an urban area.
Take a variety of lenses.
Look for contrasts
Research your locations

Around town lake
Austin Power Plant
6th Street
4th Street

Monopod or tripod.
Polarizing filters and UV filters.
Spare batteries

1.At first watched a online tutorial. His friend modeled for him. Brainstormed ideas he had never seen before. His photographs use ordinary steel wool thats set ablaze for the sparks.
2. Even professional photographers watch online tutorials. It is important to protect your eyes and your camera's eye from the sparks. wear goggles and put a cheap filter on your lens to avoid getting molten metal on the front element.

1. Clint Davis has dvd tutorials over how to make a movie poster. He goes over composite images. each tutorial is step by step. Each dvd is a different level.
I learned that professionals offer tutorials for amateurs so that they are able to learn cool tips and ways to composite images.

There is no favorite photo.

Couldn't get to the photoshop website.

Landscapes Blog

Capture Movement

When most people think about landscapes they think of calm, serene and passive environments – however landscapes are rarely completely still and to convey this movement in an image will add drama, mood and create a point of interest.

Examples – wind in trees, waves on a beach, water flowing over a waterfall, birds flying over head, moving clouds.

Capturing this movement generally means you need to look at a longer shutter speed (sometimes quite a few seconds). Of course this means more light hitting your sensor which will mean you need to either go for a small Aperture, use some sort of a filter or even shoot at the start or end of the day when there is less light.

Seacoasts

Every shoreline is different in some way. Show the difference in your images.

3 favorite photos-

Marco Carmassi
Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
My goal is to transmit the truth of nature, freezing in time its everchanging beauty, catching the perfect light, patiently waiting for the best (or worst) weather. Nothing is added or hidden in post-production, the landscapes are shot just the way they are at that very moment.
https://500px.com/MarcoCarmassi/about

Junya Hasegawa
From Japan
Reflections from the sunset off the water
Takes mostly landscapes. also takes picture of nature(plants,animals)
https://500px.com/JIN-X3

Kent Shiraishi
From Japan
takes pics of mostly landscapes
long exposure
https://500px.com/kentshiraishi

Tripod
multiple lenses
filters
spare batteries
flashlight
photoshop

In austin you can go to anywhere where there a rural area.
Hamilton Pool Road
Steiner Ranch
anywhere on 360
1626
1826
Mt. Bonnell
Manchaca
Twin Falls
Devils Backbone
Town Lake