tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995473612568464124.post2875358213011838217..comments2016-03-30T11:58:29.130+01:00Comments on Rob Hudson Photography.: Why golden hour photography isn't enoughRob Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431452498524810804noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995473612568464124.post-71366670146583578942010-08-12T00:55:17.828+01:002010-08-12T00:55:17.828+01:00Insightful thoughts Rob and I followed that Flickr...Insightful thoughts Rob and I followed that Flickr post with interest at the time.<br /><br />I have wondered on a number of occasions about the Golden Hour question - it certainly is capable of producing some beautiful conditions often transforming the landscape. I really enjoy being out at those times as the experience can be quite magical. Interestingly though, by choosing to photograph the landscape in such conditions, you are representing it as something that, for most of the time, it is not. But then maybe that is part of the attraction - it's a form of escape from the norm. Until the escape starts to become the norm as every image becomes a repeat of the last.<br /><br />I know what you mean about there being a certain type of image associated with the Golden Hour - the fixed technique is perhaps borne out of a preconception as to what an image taken at that time should look like. In other words, perhaps it reveals a failure to connect with the landscape and respond to it; instead, the photographer is imposing their will on the landscape. Anyway, this is something I'm trying to work on and have noticed in my photography the temptation to arrive with preconceived ideas and essentially repeat earlier images.<br /><br />Naturally, all these methods have their place and like most things it's a question of balance.<br /><br />It's interesting that you start from the premise of using the landscape to express your thoughts, ideas or emotions. That sounds like an active process - finding the right landscape for the right emotion. A marriage of landscape and photographer. I suppose there is also an alternative approach which I touched upon above of reacting to the landscape and trying to make your photograph really convey the reaction engendered by the landscape at that time.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Paul Sidle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com