Make It Your Own

As nature/landscape photographers, we've seen a lot of photographs from magazines, posters, postcards, etc...and thought, "I'd love to take that photo and add it to my collection."  Some examples might include places like Schwabacher Landing, Moulton Barn, and Maroon Bells.  The problem is you end up with the same photograph that you can find a million times over on the internet.  Don't get me wrong, I'd love to visit any of these places and take the same photos, but I'd try to add a new twist to the photo I take to make it my own.  I want to have my own photographic style.

I check out what other outdoor photographers are doing on some photo websites and see if there is something I might be able to emulate, rather than just blatantly copy.

There is a photographer from Canada that takes some amazing night photos and one of his photos in particular really caught my eye.  The photo was a time lapse shot with cloud movement.  I wanted to try this for myself and the result is the photo shown here.  While I enjoy taking photos like this, I didn't want it to define my style, so what I did was try to figure out how I could incorporate this into other shots that I take.

I decided that I wanted to try and have some time lapse cloud shots during the middle of the day.  I had to do a little research on the equipment I'd need, plus there was trial and error.  In the end, I was able to get what I was looking for.  This photo was an approximate 25 second exposure during a sunny afternoon.  While it isn't the best photo, it does have the cloud movement I was looking for.  I've got other ideas in mind for this technique and locations where I think it will work so that I can try to improve the outcome.  Ultimately I was able to take a style that someone else was using and try something a little bit different in an attempt to make it my own.

Until next time.

Glen

May 11, 2020