Mike Behnken inspiration // Landscape

Thailand based photographer, Mike Behnken takes cityscapes, landscapes and waterscapes. With this being he has travelled around for his images that I've posted beneath, ranging from Bangkok, Trang and Nepal. This creates a varied look throughout his images as they are of different places, so he can therefore capture different pieces of land within his images. His images are on his flickr account, which you can reach by clicking here.

This image is of the new year's fireworks happening in Bangkok, Thailand. The bright colours from the fireworks work well against the plainness from the dark sky. The firework is made up of yellow, white, red, green, and blue, which brightens up the sky and creates this the point of interest.

This image would have been created as a HDR image because of how vivid the sky and the buildings are and that its captured it all with a greater dynamic range of luminosity than a single image would have been able to.

This image is a picture perfect place of where everybody wishes that they could be instead of in England. This is because of the palm trees which are in the foreground of the image, the bluey green water from the two beaches either side of the leisure facilities, and the tree covered mountains in the background of the image.

This image by Behnken has been taken from the top of a mountain overlooking a city to mountains opposite. This creates the vantage point of long view as it's looking across to the distance. This image has an element of tranquillity to it because you're looking at what's happening away and above from it all.

Nathan Hayag inspiration // Landscape

Singapore based photographer, Nathan Hayag takes images of cityscapes, landscapes and waterscapes. His work can be found on flickr account here.

This image by Hayag is of buildings overlooking water, which is creating reflections. The image has been taken at night time because the sky is dark and all the night lights are on along the water. The lights from the buildings and night lights of the city are creating reflections along the water, making it look as if there are two sets of buildings, one upright and one upside down in the water.

This image is done in sepia and monochrome theme colours of brown, grey, black, and white. There is a bridge going from the right of the image into the centre which the viewer's eyes will follow to the buildings in the centre of the image. The sky makes the image look as if it has been taken on a long shutter speed because the clouds look as if they have moved whilst the image was being taken.

This image is looking straight across at the skyscrapers in Singapore. The image has been taken with a long shutter speed, this can be seen by looking down at the road in the image and seeing light trails from cars going along the image. The image has been taken at night, this is seen by the sky being dark. The city night lights are keeping the building and image illuminated.

This image has been taken along the rocks, overlooking the water, with the background having the shape of the nearest land over the water. This is effective because the rocks are at the very bottom of the image taking up about a third of it. The texture of the water is visible through the image with a pinkish colour reflecting onto it from the sky.

Aditya Mawardi // Landscape

Melbourne based photographer, Aditya Mawardi creates landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes. His work can be found here on his flickr account and also here.

These are all very interesting to me as I've visited Melbourne in the past, so it brings back memories of when I walked through and past all these places in the blazing Australian summer heat. These images are very powerful to me as Melbourne is one of my favourite cities.

These images feature the use of HDR images like Johan Peijnenburg. This has been done so the images capture all aspects of what is happening, with the sky, in the distance and near in high detail. 

The image above has been taken at night looking down on the city of Melbourne. This means that they have used birds eye view vantage point as part of their composition. The image has been taken at sunset, you can tell this by the part of the sky which reaches the land is a golden colour, while the rest of the sky is a darkish blue. The night lights of the city are keeping Melbourne bright and illuminated. The river Yarra can be seen running through the image on the left side, with a few small reflections seen along it from the city lights of Melbourne.

This image is of a beach, with very few people on it, with two people in the water. The image has captured the texture of the clouds, being lines along the sky, as well as the crashing waves, the sand, and the fence. This is the type of image that people look at and wish that they were there and not where they currently are. 

This image is of a pier / board walk that goes into the sea. The walkway creates a line for the viewers eyes to look down, which brings them to the sky and sea. The image captures the texture of the walkway, wood, sea, and clouds. 

This last image of a cloudy sky at Southern Cross, Melbourne. This image has been taken from the vantage point of worms eye view, because they're looking up at the sky and buildings. The sky has a pink colour in it, almost as if it's been taken at sunset with the pastel colour within the sky. The buildings and lights have created vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines through the image, which draw the viewer's eyes there as they're lines that their eyes can follow. 

Landscape Photography Project // Landscape

Since we have recently finished our experimental photography project, we have therefore moved onto our next project. This being landscape photography.

The new brief on Landscape photography states that we can look at the stereotypical landscape, as well as cityscapes and waterscapes / seascapes. This is to show that a landscape can be something other than an idea of how we perceive the countryside, but as water and urban themes count too.

This project will also involve research of photographers that I will find out about whilst doing this project. This will be interesting as I will be looking through there work and taking inspiration for my own from theirs. This will involve looking through the list of photographers we have been given on the brief as well as doing some more research of my own to find different photographers that create images that I like and prefer the style of to others.

This means that I get to really look in depth of the scenery around me, which I don't usually do as I take it for granted as I've lived with it my whole life. I will also look in depth around London for cityscapes in the capital city, this will have a totally different feel in the way of cityscapes compared to Sheffield. I will also be looking and taking images whilst I am on holiday for a week in Switzerland, which should result in getting images with mountains, lakes and altogether a totally different scenery to be taking landscapes of compared to Sheffield and Derbyshire.

Below is a range of Landscape photography that I am researching and taking inspiration from in this project.