About emotions and landscapes

[Horacio]

As I go through some pictures of landscapes I visit frequently, I discover more and more how emotional become the interpretation of the mood of them. Hope you understand what I feel.

[Ian]

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Thanks Horacio for another excellent set of images

The first one is interesting because you have the smooth almost featureless sky separated by the jagged sharp mountains and then the foreground is gritty and grainy - so much contrast in one image!

Of course I really love the third one with the wooden jetty for boats - this looks like a long exposure shot to smooth the water?

Is there any chance that you can preserve the exif data in your images so we can see the camera settings?

Ian

[Josh Bear]

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Wow. Inspirational pictures ie makes me want to get out with my camera. All great. Love one and three.

Best regards

Josh

[John Perriment]

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I know exactly what you mean, Horacio. We do indeed build an emotional attachment with our favourite places and connect with them in an almost undefinable way. Somehow, the more we visit and the more familiar we become with a location, the more we seem to see on each visit that we hadn't noticed before. Plus, being familiar with the lay of the land and the direction of seasonal lighting at various times of the day enables us to anticipate or pre-visualize a picture before our visit. There's no place like home and home is where the heart is.

Great set of pictures, you have indeed built some strong attachments.

[Horacio]

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Thank you all for your thoughts. I think that the exif data have gone because the path of the picture was: edit in CS6, converted in PDS and Tiff and PNG. From the Png where resized for the web. Am I right??

[Tom Holle]

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For me the emotional part is the subject and treatment. If I had been skilled enough to take these and was to try and analyse them I would say that they show life at the farther end of the cycle..#1. the mountains have given way to the tranquility of the calm waters..#2. again the life force of the water gravitates to its destination in a smooth continuous flow...#3. the stair cased dock reaches out, ending in the stillness of the lake...#4. the tide reaches its end, smoothing out the beach...#5. Even though there is a turbulence to the waves, they are not crashing but more undulating in what could be thier final attempt at significance. Again I stress that this is the emotions they bring forth in me.

[John Perriment]

Re: About emotions and landscapes

For me the emotional part is the subject and treatment. If I had been skilled enough to take these and was to try and analyse them I would say that they show life at the farther end of the cycle..#1. the mountains have given way to the tranquility of the calm waters..#2. again the life force of the water gravitates to its destination in a smooth continuous flow...#3. the stair cased dock reaches out, ending in the stillness of the lake...#4. the tide reaches its end, smoothing out the beach...#5. Even though there is a turbulence to the waves, they are not crashing but more undulating in what could be thier final attempt at significance. Again I stress that this is the emotions they bring forth in me.

The hallmark of a good photograph is when it evokes an emotional response in the viewer as well as the photographer.

[Ian]

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Thank you all for your thoughts. I think that the exif data have gone because the path of the picture was: edit in CS6, converted in PDS and Tiff and PNG. From the Png where resized for the web. Am I right??

Why do you use PNG and even TIFF? PSD is enough - and then export to JPEG for publication to Web. If you are using Save to Web, the exif data can be preserved; check the options available.

Ian

[Horacio]

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I convert the images to PNG to upload them to blurb. I will get back to the jpeg conversion for the web. I do use save for web. I will see the preferences again as to check the options.

[Horacio]

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Thanks John and Tom. We listen the same modulated frecuency.

[Ian]

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I convert the images to PNG to upload them to blurb. I will get back to the jpeg conversion for the web. I do use save for web. I will see the preferences again as to check the options.

OK, I'm not confident that PNG is the best choice for photos. I read that there are problems with the way PNG manages image gamma when files are displayed. Although JPEG is a lossy system compared to lossless with PNG, if you use a low compression ratio (even use 100% for minimal compression) there shouldn't be any problems with image quality and JPEG. PNG was really designed as an open standard alternative to GIF and so useful for diagrams and text. Sure it can be used for photos but personally, I would use JPEG. I'm surprised that Blurb doesn't support TIFF, which is the best widely supported lossless photo-friendly file format.

Ian

[Horacio]

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I checked Blurb. They receive nnow jpegs but no tifs. I will go back to jpegs. I must say that my 3 edited books in blurb where done on the basis of pngs and they where really very good.