Landscape Photography in Sweden
I’ve just come back from a week-long trip to Sweden’s west coast. Since photography has been coming very short lately, I’d mentally prepared myself for six days of intense photography — get up before sunrise, photograph, take a nap during lunchtime and go out again in the late afternoon. But I had two days of rain and two days of cloudless sky, so the photography was concentrated in two days only. Oh well, at least I was able to relax some — not a bad thing either!
I traveled by car, so I brought along most of my gear, but in the end I used my typical set almost all of the time: Canon 30D, 17-40/4, 50/1.8, 70-200/4 and my trusty cardboard finder, all in a small shoulder bag.
A quick glance through the photos reveals lots of photographic junk, a few images with potential and one image that clearly stands out.
With very minimal Photoshop help, this surely is my finest landscape photograph so far! How do you like it?
As a news person I know more about news photography, but I’d say that -generally speaking- landscape photos look way better when taken when your camera is held normally (eh, landscape is the term, too?). I love the colors. And I love the clouds.
AD photographing people: again, news experience and Czech Republic legislation: if you take a picture of a person who is on a public place, you do NOT need their persmission. It is called “news lincense” here. So you can take a photo of a girl licking ice-cream if it is for a story on hot summer days, you can take a picture of a homeless man sleeping on a bench, you can take a photo of a protest march participant, just ANYONE who is on a public place doing things that bystanders can see. But once that person is ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY while being photographed [i.e. a man in HIS garden], you should need the permission…