Sadly landscape photography is more and more victim of editing abuse, it started with stuff that could be justified for the purpose of going beyond the camera limits (like HDR and bracketing) but it now "evolved" (or involved?) to time of day blending, focal lenght blending, shameles stretching of landscape features in Photoshop etc. Photography on the other end has a definition, and when you're starting to blend together various time of days and adding other stuff like birds, lightnings, nonexisting lights etc you aren't taking a photograph anymore, you are composing an image which might look good, might be art, but it's not a photo, it's a work of graphic design. It is art for sure, there is no technical rule defining art. Well I don't think the question is whether it's art or not. Let me know down below what kind of photography you enjoy doing and why. When impressionist paintings first started to hit the world stage, they were ridiculed and met with harsh opposition too from the conventional art community.īe sure to check out the above video, where I discuss my approach to impressionist and contemporary landscape photography even more. Some are more artistic than others, and that is all fine. The point here is that there are several different approaches to photography, and they are all valid. Here is a surprise for you: art requires imagination! Just because the photo depicts more (or less) than the eye can see does not make it fake. There is a tendency to label this kind of impressionist landscape photography as “fake” because it reminds some people of fantasy that they cannot see it in reality. The post-processing helps balance tones, colors, and light, and make it "pop." I experienced all of it and put it all together in one image. My photo from Eystrahorn in Iceland is made up of several exposures (a so-called time blend). As I am writing this, the world moves on, as it always has, and in a few decades, we can look back and analyze why things were as they were and we can keep discussing what good photography is and what good art is, as we always should. ![]() How people made fantasy-esque landscape photos because they are influenced from growing up with cartoons and fantasy movies, how many photos are taken during travels because people were not limited to their own backyard, how many photos look alike because social media helped push the most popular landscape photos and the internet made it easier than ever to learn the skills of the most popular landscape photographers? There are likely even more tendencies to point out. I will bet that in 80 years (or even earlier) some art historians can say a whole lot of things about the tendencies within landscape photography in the early 21st century. National Geographic is known for more “realistic” depictions of places and events, but they are not to decide whether you want to or should photograph like that. Not even National Geographic who is often celebrated as a kind of "standard of nature photography." National Geographic decides what they want to publish in their magazines based on their criteria, which you can choose to follow. It is often important to remind my co-photographer that nobody in the entire universe has the authority to decide how an individual should use their camera. It is your artistic decision to use it or not.Ĭontemporary landscape photography is arguably much more about the impression of the individual photographer than depicting the landscape as realistic as possible. Some photographers may disapprove of the long exposure effect, but you cannot deny that it has certain aesthetic value to it. No humans experience water as long streaks. No, Krøyer was much more interested in giving an impression of the friendship and social bonds of the colony, which led to his painting “Hip, Hip, Hurra.” He was inspired by the real events captured in the photo, but the painting is not an exact depiction of what happened on that day. Krøyer painted a get-together of some of the painters from the colony. In one of the most famous Danish paintings (see below), the painter PS. The main point was not to depict a subject matter as seen by the eyes, but as perceived by the painter it was the impression of the painter, which is depicted. The painters were mainly inspired by impressionism, which is known for an emphasis on accurate depiction of light, ordinary subject matter, movement, and some different painting techniques. ![]() This colony of painters painted their families, the daily life in Skagen, the surrounding landscapes, and the fishermen who lived in the town. ![]() Focus stacked and the birds are blended in from a third exposure at high ISO.
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