Rob Studdert wrote:
On 6 Nov 2004 at 22:52, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
The world is so full of life and activity (people,
animals, life, motion, things happening) that, to me, a nature scene that
doesn't show some of life's vibrancy is just dull and boring more often than
not. Sometimes that spark can be captured without people, life, or activity,
but, for the most part, one sunset looks much like the other, one row of trees
not much different than the next, one pile of rocks just like the pile seen
earlier.
I guess that since I live in a large city full of generally very self centred, angry and stressed people I go well out of my way to shoot scenes without people, I agree it can make the shot but in a wilderness environment I generally prefer my images body free.
The main effect of a body in a wilderness shot (city OR country) is the perspective it lends.
Wilderness shots frequently mislead you as to the real size of the scene, or distance from here to there.
Adding a human somewhere does both. Gives you an 'aha' point of reference...
keith whaley
Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
