There are quite a few other subjects besides landscapes, but even so, the more you shoot the better you are. Shooting a lot of frames for landscapes allows you to carefully review each frame and see subtle differences that you may miss. Landscapes are not static. However, the more static a subject is the more shots one may want to take, using slightly different perspectives.
Harry Callahan's famous photo of a volley ball net at Cape Cod seems simple enough, but the contact sheet shows eleven frames were exposed, showing slightly different perspectives. Freed's photo of a Texas prisoner's hands through the bars of his cell was also a simple photo, yet Freed shot at least 36 frames, each showing a subtle, and sometimes almost imperceptible change, in position. There's a local landscape and architectural photog who I frequently see photographing things around El Cerrito. He recently spent a couple of hours snapping a very interesting bench, waiting for light to change, shadows to appear, and changing is position every now and then. Some years ago I asked him why he was taking so many shots of what seemed to be so simple a subject. His response, in one word, was "Practice." Practice keeps your eyes sharp, keeps your mind alert to the variations of light and shadow on a subject, keeps you tuned into the background, or what's around the periphery of a frame. Practice allows you to see faster and shoot faster. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Jostein > Shooting three rolls a day to keep reflexes sharp seems a bit of a > waste for landscapes...:-) > From: "Shel Belinkoff" > > Many of the better photogs shoot several rolls of 35mm > > per day just for practice.
