John Holbrook
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Thursday’s Task: People present in landscape. People incidental or purposely included to add interest or show scale. My examples below:
Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
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Thursday’s Task: People present in landscape. People incidental or purposely included to add interest or show scale. My examples below:
Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
Rick Nantais
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Grand Canyon...
John Holbrook
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Rick, nice image—with the onlookers you also captured show the immensity of the Canyon.
John Holbrook
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Craig, nice image you’ve shared—I too try to avoid including people, cars, boats, planes, etc, in my images and if not possible, I clone them out in Photoshop. I do think in some instances their inclusion works. The individuals you’ve included above seem to be enjoying themselves!
AlanLichty
Moderator
Smith Rock State Park in Oregon - you are going to have to click through to a larger version to make them out but the bottom of the cliffs in this scene is full of rock climbers and there are several up on the cliff faces as well.
Death Valley - with all due apologies to Jeffrey's excellent shot of Manly Beacon here is a view of the place where most gather to shoot the scene:
One from the Yellowstone Falls viewpoint. It's hard to keep your tripod stable with the endless jostling and elbows. While I was shooting the falls a tour group barged in and a lady turned around for her instagram shot and flung her arms out so she would be the primary subject with the falls behind. Her arms hit me as well as my camera/tripod and I had to grab the tripod to keep it from going over. She never even turned around to acknowledge my existence. I do not like shooting in places like this at all and will not return after that experience.
Death Valley - with all due apologies to Jeffrey's excellent shot of Manly Beacon here is a view of the place where most gather to shoot the scene:
One from the Yellowstone Falls viewpoint. It's hard to keep your tripod stable with the endless jostling and elbows. While I was shooting the falls a tour group barged in and a lady turned around for her instagram shot and flung her arms out so she would be the primary subject with the falls behind. Her arms hit me as well as my camera/tripod and I had to grab the tripod to keep it from going over. She never even turned around to acknowledge my existence. I do not like shooting in places like this at all and will not return after that experience.
John Holbrook
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Alan, I like your Smith Rock State Park image—nice! I’ve never been tempted to try rock climbing although I admire their efforts and abilities. Your second image reminds me of my Mesa Arch experience though it was twice this amount of photographers/tripods! I read your last image’s comment to my wife and she laughed as we have experienced the same rudeness several times.
Rick Knepper doing Chicken Corners
Me doing Chicken Corners
Me doing Chicken Corners
dan swiger
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From a visit to Toroweap about a decade ago, with BIL/SIL, both doctors. Always inviting me on adventures
Trent Watts
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Most of Saskatchewan is quite flat. A few areas have wonderful valleys carved out many years ago as rivers and glaciers left their mark. This area is in southern Sask. in the Qu'Appelle Valley where some friends live. I included the people to help give the scale.
Trent Watts
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I love your introduction slides John. Always so creative.
John Holbrook
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Ben, it’s good seeing you and Rick carefully negotiating your way to shoot landscape images— it makes me appreciate them even more.
John Holbrook
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Dan, it’s good to see you and family venturing out to capture the beauty of the landscapes. In the last image I hope that changing lenses wasn’t too awkward in that precarious position.
John Holbrook
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Trent, very nice image—beautiful sky above the snow covered hills. And yes, the skiers do provide helpful sense of scale.
Kyle Jones
Moderator
1) Tioga Lake with people on the shoreline
2) Grand Prismatic Spring with people on the boardwalk
3) Oneonta Falls with my daughter in front
2) Grand Prismatic Spring with people on the boardwalk
3) Oneonta Falls with my daughter in front
John Holbrook
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Kyle, three beautiful images—pictured with other scenic admirers. Perhaps the Grand Prismatic Spring is my favorite but the Oneonta Falls and Tioga Lake are very special as well.
ckcarr
Founding Member
If I remember correctly they were a group of young women from a college track team and had ran the trail, down and up. Eventually they blew past me even though I was trying to not let them catch me! LOL!!
Ken Rennie
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Better late than never. I usually avoid including people in an image unless they are a significant and complementary element. I don't always succeed in this. Ken
My wife, after swimming in the river, sitting patiently waiting for me to finish taking photographs.
A young woman getting very close and wet at Wailing Widow falls
3 people admiring nature at the falls of Bruar
A Woman, contemplating who knows what, walks along a Spanish beach on a misty morning.
Lastly a couple enjoying each other and the evening light in the Ardeche in France.
My wife, after swimming in the river, sitting patiently waiting for me to finish taking photographs.
A young woman getting very close and wet at Wailing Widow falls
3 people admiring nature at the falls of Bruar
A Woman, contemplating who knows what, walks along a Spanish beach on a misty morning.
Lastly a couple enjoying each other and the evening light in the Ardeche in France.
John Holbrook
Well-Known Member
Beautiful examples of this week’s Task. The last two images’ inclusion of individual(s) is especially integral to each composition.
Douglas Sherman
Staff
I don't usually take images of people in my landscapes but here is one of Guy Schmickle sitting at Grand Canyon while we waited for some light.
