I avoided landscape for most of my career because of rules. You know the ones, exotic and spectacular location, must be golden hour with amazing and perfectly placed weather, perfect exposure, maximised hyper focal distance, expensive kit and of course always use a tripod. I now love landscape, and don’t follow any of those rules other than nailing exposure. I very rarely use a tripod, will quite happily shoot all day under a featureless sky and like my bed too much to be setting out at 3am for a sunrise shot! Liberating beyond belief.
I’ll occasionally try to catch a sunrise or sunset, but I also enjoy finding a shot that works in any other kind of light. I only use a tripod for low light or if I want to be picky about composition. And I mostly stay around central and northern NY state. I have the most fun finding subjects close to home.
I avoided landscape for most of my career because of rules. You know the ones, exotic and spectacular location, must be golden hour with amazing and perfectly placed weather, perfect exposure, maximised hyper focal distance, expensive kit and of course always use a tripod. I now love landscape, and don’t follow any of those rules other than nailing exposure. I very rarely use a tripod, will quite happily shoot all day under a featureless sky and like my bed too much to be setting out at 3am for a sunrise shot! Liberating beyond belief.
I’ll occasionally try to catch a sunrise or sunset, but I also enjoy finding a shot that works in any other kind of light. I only use a tripod for low light or if I want to be picky about composition. And I mostly stay around central and northern NY state. I have the most fun finding subjects close to home.