Secrets for Creative Landscape Photography – It’s about YOU!
One of the most important secrets for creative landscape photography is You. You need to put more “you” into your landscape photography. For your creative landscape photography to make an impact, I’ve found it is really important that you have a unique “take” on the subject. Take landscape photos that YOU relate to, and don’t worry about if anyone else will approve.
If you’re on Instagram you must follow @insta_repeat. This account will demonstrate how uncreative much of the landscape photography has become. Follow this account and if any of your images is like any on insta_repeat, it’s NOT a creative landscape photograph!
It wasn’t till I completely gave up those crazy ideas of being able to capture images like (insert name of your favourite influencer here), that I actually began to receive compliments about my own creative photos. Now that I have my own style and my own methods, I can’t keep up with the demand!
Secrets for creative landscape photography #1: Your unique interpretation of what you see is essential
There are an infinite number of subjects for creative landscape photography, and just as many ways to interpret them. Think of every photography class you ever took. Out of, let’s say, 15 people in a class, chances are, no one shot the same picture the same way. Why, you ask?
Good question. I believe it’s because everyone has a unique set of life experiences that colour the way we relate to the things in our environment, and this affects the associations we make with everything. In other words, we all interpret things in a unique way, according to our experiences. And yet social media has “brainwashed” aspiring photographers to copy almost exactly thousands of scenes, scenes which might have held numerous more original images which went un-noticed and un-captured.
I always try to make my creative landscape photos as unconventional as I can. (I don’t want to believe that I am just like everyone else!) I think about how a plain snapshot of the scene would look. And then I try to make my shot it as wildly different from that as possible!
So encourage your self to be unique. Let your “take” be a little eccentric. If the idea for your landscape photo seems strange, don’t sweat it. As the Nike people say, “Just do it!”