It is probably a strange time for me to start a big photo book project – I have not been able to do much photography for the last few weeks, because I am busy with the moving apartments! Unfortunately, there is not much time to take landscape photos on the way. But in another sense, I think this is the right time to start a project like this photo book.
Walking is never a quick or easy process, but it is also a new beginning in many ways. I have got rid of my additional accessories (or at least too much) and have given more detailed consideration to my plans for the next few years. And I have tried to resume different parts of my life towards those things that are important to me, including making this photo book.
I do not enjoy taking breaks from photography, but a good thing this month is what kind of photos I am most eager to return. I have a good understanding of which parts of photography I really miss the most, and so, which subjects can understand the most for the subject of photo book.
And me to do Want to make the book a theme. A case is probably to be made for an uncontrolled landscape photography book with a full range of my best photos, and perhaps I will do a project like a day, but it is not my goal here. For me, the entire purpose of this book is a deliberate project that I start from the ground … A type of quilt is deliberately woven with related photos that tell a harmonious story.
But what subject to choose? Some ideas are floating around my head for age, but I felt that any subject would have to meet something different and challenging needs:
- Something that is relatively new to me. I want to feel a sense of discovery in this process and learn new skills, hopefully emerging as a better photographer.
- Such topics that I can catch in both my home state and distant. My intention is to work on this book whenever I have free time. Therefore, it should be possible to hold at least some within a day drive of a day of my house. But I would also like to help guide your long rhodtrips and international travels in the coming years.
- Views with meaningful variety. I want each page of the book to feel very different from the final. The ideal theme will allow for a significant variety of photos, while still there is a thread to add them all.
- Something that tells meThis is probably the most important requirement of all. Of course, most of the world’s scenario speaks to me at some level. But if I have been going to spend many years to focus on this book, then I want to cover a subject that echoes deeply with me.
Within these boundaries, some topics I believed that mountain backcontra, nighttime landscape photography and/or deep sky work, containing containntal divide, aspen forests and even sand tibba photography (since there are some impressive tibba of a few hours in my south). All these ideas seemed like possibilities of possibilities, but I realized that I was dancing between them and failed to land on the same subject.
Several weeks ago, I brought my friend and fellow photography with life writer Adam Sheridan. Adam has created an earlier photo book, and from his experience, he shared a very interesting piece of advice: do not decide immediately. Instead, start working at two, or even more of potential ideas together, and allow yourself to naturally gravity to him naturally that speaks to you the most.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, I do not have a ton of time for photography this month. But whenever I brought out my camera, I did this with that mentality: without forcing anything, away at the chip on multiple book ideas simultaneously, and allowing the most resonant idea to reveal myself over time.
I am very happy that I took that approach, because a theme reached the top almost immediately, as if it could never be anything else. This concept meets all my requirements and still works in all the various places I was considering, from Colorado backcutry to international destinations. The subject is Intimate landscape photography,
Intimate landscape photography usually means small and more abstract views, sometimes close-up, unique and often capturing temporary beauty. It can be a simple way to describe it – landscape photos without sky into them. I have written an article about the first intimate landscape photography (Here) And for a long time it has been considered a sub-style of landscape photography that I want to find more. Now, with this book, it will become one of the primary attention of my photography for a few years to come.
Really excite me about this subject that it is something I can practically do anywhere. Like I said on intimate landscape photography in my article: Even if you do not have “epic”, even if the conditions are not correct, even if it is a sunny day … You can take good intimate landscape pictures. You do not depend on a grand sunset on a royal hill peak. You can just walk in a local pond and take a picture of frost plants in the morning.
I also know that this topic will guide me to go to some low-journey places. Everyone is aware that the royal scenes of Iceland and New Zealand are fantastic for landscape photography. But what about quiet forests and red ponds that can be found almost anywhere in the world? In recent weeks, when research is done at places to travel, I am thinking of my time for a long time, thinking about the potential close-up of Grand Vista. In turn, my priority list for future travel has changed dramatically – perhaps for better, but at least for more unique.
Of course, I will still take landscape pictures of the classic-style over the next few years. I have no intention of avoiding them, and if this book project takes me out more often, I can end up More From those pictures I was taking first. But now I have a new focus for my personal landscape photography, and I know what to see when I take a picture for the book. ” A good idea really. This should be the beginning of a very interesting journey!
