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Do some parts of the country lend thenselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

Last post 26-07-2008, 2:13 PM by sue allen. 35 replies.
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  •  24-07-2008, 11:14 AM 845361 in reply to 845337

    Re: Do some parts of the country lend themselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

    hevans:
    ABERS:

    Set yourself a project,  "Within 50 Yards of Home", that'll test your photographic credentials.


    and a good topic for the weekend comp.

    H.

    I think I left a zero out, should read 500 yards! Depends how you get on with the neighbours.Wink [;)]


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  •  24-07-2008, 11:29 AM 845373 in reply to 845361

    Re: Do some parts of the country lend themselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

    Neighbours - what neighbours? OK then, how many rabbits can I find within 500 yards? Stick out tongue [:P]

  •  25-07-2008, 6:58 AM 845783 in reply to 844833

    Re: Do some parts of the country lend themselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

    Fully agree with you Eddo.  A lot of photographers, landscape photographers included, should restrict themselves to within 4 or 5 miles of home.  I have had to do this for the last 12 months or so (whilst family illness has restricted me) and have found my local environment is choc full of great opportunities.  Try taking urban landscapes, architectural shots, and the like, around your local area, and you will see that there are a lot of shots screaming out to be taken.

     


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  •  25-07-2008, 10:16 PM 846133 in reply to 842233

    Re: Do some parts of the country lend thenselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

    Yes I believe you are right in some ways...although I do get good stuff from around the suburb I live in its obviously limited in land- or street- scape. Though this being Australia you can get local opportunities to photograph wild life in your garden (Crickets & Beetles stop by, though Kangaroos & Koalas don't! ) and the local playing fields are fringed by Eucalypts which sometimes attract parrots and their relatives. It can be hard though, e.g. to photgraph Rainbow Lorikeets stripping the fruit from a Eucalypt they move behind the object of their desire and therefore are blocked by the tree and shower you in debris if you are underneath, you can't get level with them in this topography wheras you could in the blue mountains say but they still hide from view! On the other hand our parks and reserves can be so busy that people scare wild life away with their noise especially Sundays we find.

    We are also lucky in that the railway line runs on an elevated embankment here, though I've yet to sync my local excursions with the steam specials - it provides the odd opportunity to photograph trains from eye level at bogie height above corridor fencing.

    Whilst our suburb is basically safe I do hesitate to wonder around it looking like a cashed up tourist, thats easier in tourist areas or city centres or areas you don't know. Not that Australia is particularly unsafe but suburban areas are best treated with some caution I think anywwhere in the world - last year in Queens New York I was stopped by an excon for a chat, the camera was bouncing on my chest as usual. Although he was an excon and that was a story in itself, he sent me off to look at the old Rolls Royce warehouse in Queens, though he could well have done something less friendly I felt initially.

    Well I am off to work today and may well pop my D40 and its new tokina 11-16 f2.8 lens in my bag just in case I see anything worthy or taking timeout and shooting....

    As many people have said one way or another, sucess is 90% being there, finding a good location is 90% of the work and being naturally creative is probably another 90% ism and thats where the majority of us no doubt struggle.

    Whilst my backyard maybe slightly more intersting than yours, downtown Sydney and many other places are defineitly more photogenic in almost every way! I find I usually need to take time out just to take photographs otherwise creativity and opporutnities whistle by whithout my noticing them!

    Cheers David
  •  26-07-2008, 4:03 AM 846243 in reply to 842233

    Re: Do some parts of the country lend thenselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

    I am very much of the opinion, shared by many, that there are no dull places, just dull photographers. All the same, some places are just harder than others not to be dull in.

    That being said, I'm going to poke the funny round thing in the tree with my little stick (the last time I said something like this I was blistered as a bloodsucking Yankee swine to such a degree that even many Brits took pity on me).

    Living in Britain provides advantages that one can hardly dream of in the middle of a large continent. You have mountains, moors, coastlines, lakes, and just a stupendous amount of scenery, not even to count the cultural remains of a land that has had human occupancy for nearly half a million years. Most of it is within a  relatively short distance in an automobile. The good old USA has an even broader selection of scenery, to be sure, but DAYS of travel are sometimes necessary to get there unless one flies and rents a car - no cheap thing these days.

    So, to use an Americanism, "quit your bellyaching" and go out and take those lovely pictorial scenes that you all do so well (and, no, I'm not being ironic -- The British magazines like Digital Camera publish a body of reader photographs that are superb, if very different on the whole than what we see here)

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  •  26-07-2008, 2:13 PM 846375 in reply to 846243

    Re: Do some parts of the country lend thenselves to greater photo taking opportunities?

    I went out and got shot in a particularly picturesque setting this morning.....can't beat an old oil drum and gas canister for setting off a bird shot....



    a few mediocre pics
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