Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been looking at a few luggers' websites and noticing that quite a few of them are full of landscape shots. For myself, I find it impossible to photograph anything that doesn't have a person in it, preferably within a couple of meters of the front of the lens. Nothing else really gets me going. This is a real weakness of my photography - one of the reasons I want to do panoramics is to break out of this. So do other people feel equally bound to or limited by one genre or type of subject? I find landscape incredibly dificult - I can spend ages looking at a beautiful scene (preferably with a g+t in one hand and my feet up on a stool) - but I can seldom get a coherent picture out of it. It's relatively easy, I suspect, to make the human face/behaviour interesting or arresting, compared to landscape. One of the reasons I'm impressed by people like Eggleston or Ghirri or Adams (not Ansel!) who can make a powerful picture of a quiet, unexceptional landscape. Inerestingly, all of them use normal lenses and normal perspective (as I recall - it's been a while since I looked at any of their pictures). Rob. Robert Appleby V. Bellentani 36 41100 MO Italy tel. (+39) 059 303436 mob. (+39) 0348 336 7990