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What makes a landscape photograph interesting?
Besides the usual 'time of the day', 'breath-taking location' and of course, excellent post processing skills, the utmost important rule is definitely composition.
Given a fantastic 'breath-taking location', at the so-called 'golden timing' and with superb post processing skills, the landscape photograph might not be a contender of the 'Best Landscape Photograph of the Year Award' if there ever was one.
Good composition/framing of a scenery is of the utmost importance. With good composition, a simple, 'boring' scenery can still look somewhat exciting and of course, nice.
Another outing has just concluded. It was a late evening trip to Boat Quay, for night scenery photography. Some students came up to me, saying that it was a 'boring place' and there's 'nothing exciting or special' about the location.
Well, make your night scenery photographs special and exciting then. The challenge was simple. Make your night scenery photographs special and exciting.
All along, we've been, hmmm, should I say, 'assaulted' with allegations from many locals and photographers alike that taking landscape photographs in Singapore is very 'boring' and of course, the number one reason, 'Singapore is so small, there's nothing anywhere in Singapore for doing landscape photography.".
Is that really the case?
I would think that maybe most people are not really seeing.
What do I mean by seeing?
The ability to see a scenery differently and to use whatever is in the scenery to aid in the composition in landscape photography.
That is truly seeing.
Having a good idea and a strong understanding in the fundamentals of compositional sense in Photography do help. Using whatever is in the scenery to further enhance your composition will put your landscape photographs in another level.
What good is it if your photograph is anything but the run of the mill, an average and normal photograph that anybody can easily achieve if they are placed in the same scenario?
A continuation from the first outing to the Jurong Gardens, this outing aims to help the students to see since most of them already possess the basic technical know-how in doing night scenery long exposure.
The new Supreme Court flanked by the old Supreme Court.
I realised that this is perhaps an interesting composition as I noticed the 'spaceship' lookalike top of the new Supreme Court seemingly hoevering above it and that the old Supreme Court is just in front of the new building, with construction going on too, making it look as the site is out-of-bounds as we have just located an alien spaceship in Singapore.
We moved on from the initial meeting place and landed up just in front of the Fullerton Hotel.
"Make your composition interesting and DIFFERENT from what a normal tourist, local or even other photographers will have." There, my challenge to the students.
Anyway, I've 2 quick snaps of 2 famous landmark in Boat Quay.
The fantastic Anderson Brdge, shot from the Cavenagh Bridge, through a 'hole' in the railings.
