Requirement
4 images
Purpose
To explore close order compsitions of nature
Technical learning
- A common defintion of landscapes is that they go all the way to the horizon
- Even so, some argue that more selective views, even close-ups, fall within scope (see Intimate Landscapes, by Eliot Porter)
Intimate Landscapes, Eliot Porter
Each simple, but compelling, compositions of the texture, colours and shapes of nature
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| Colorful trees. Newfound Gap Road, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennesee. October, 1967 |
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| Foxtail grass, Lake City, Colorado. August, 1957 |
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| Redbud trees in bottomland, Near Red River Gorge Kentucky. April 17, 1968 |
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| Rock-eroded stream bed. Coyote Gulch, Utah. August 14, 197y |
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| Shadbush. Near Hillsborough, New Hampshire. April 28, 1957 |
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| Stones and cracked mud. Black Place, New Mexico. June 9, 1977 |
Exercise instructions
- Produce 3 to 4 images of this type (i.e. no horizon)
Images and review
Molesey Weir, Surrey, July 12
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Inspired by Toshio Shibata. The water acquires
a treacle like consistency yet still conveys the violence of its rushing through the weir. Taken with a ND 3 stop with smallest aperture available on my 28mm/300mm everyday lens at ISO 1000. |
Rock strata, Sandymouth, Devon, April 12
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This exposed section of cliff shows the erosion
of wind and wave on rock as well tells part of the history of how the rock came to be |
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| Texture rather than colour is the key feature of this neatly stacked pile of wood. So B&W and sharpening the pixels to bring out the saw marks. |
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| Taken under overcast skies, the peaceful greens of the Devon hills |
Poppy fields, Upavon, Wiltshire, June 12
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| Let me take you down 'cos I'm goin to...Poppy Fields For Ever |
Sidmouth beach, just after a spell of rain, June 12
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Seemed to capture the mood of life on the
beach better than a horizon shot, as well contrast between shingle and sand |
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| Wind blown wheat, motion blur to convey effect |
Field on Salisbury Plain, May 2012
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| Rings of seedlings in spring |
View from a lay-by on A 303, Wiltshire, September 2011
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| Again taken in overcast conditions, shows the textures of farmed landscape, where the planes fold into one another |
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