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Right at the beginning of the video Mr Horne comes up with a recipe (his word) for a successful landscape photograph.
A compelling subject.
Ideal composition.
Good light.
No doubt many landscape photographers do follow this recipe or something similar. This is why you see so many photographs, Mr. Horne's included, that have little or no individuality. They all look like they were taken by the same person, because they were all working to the same recipe. In the case of Mr. Horne, the photographs are technically very good, very pleasant and very easy to look at. But rather bland, and inconsequential.
Photographers who go beyond this don't follow a recipe. They find a way to get their work to express what they feel about what they are photographing, and to communicate something that can't be expressed in words.
Great landscape photographers don't need what Mr. Horne describes as a compelling subject. They take the ordinary and mundane and make it compelling. When Blakemore, for example, photographed an ordinary rock in a stream, he transformed it into something entirely extraordinary. There is no recipe for how to do this...
Alan
A compelling subject.
Ideal composition.
Good light.
No doubt many landscape photographers do follow this recipe or something similar. This is why you see so many photographs, Mr. Horne's included, that have little or no individuality. They all look like they were taken by the same person, because they were all working to the same recipe. In the case of Mr. Horne, the photographs are technically very good, very pleasant and very easy to look at. But rather bland, and inconsequential.
Photographers who go beyond this don't follow a recipe. They find a way to get their work to express what they feel about what they are photographing, and to communicate something that can't be expressed in words.
Great landscape photographers don't need what Mr. Horne describes as a compelling subject. They take the ordinary and mundane and make it compelling. When Blakemore, for example, photographed an ordinary rock in a stream, he transformed it into something entirely extraordinary. There is no recipe for how to do this...
Alan