Scenic Photography Articles

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These photos are great to read! Plus the amount of examples help me as I am a visual learner. I have always had to follow examples and make them mine. These articles gave me a great deal of ideas. I think the ones that were the most interesting to me were the section on reflections, the section of silhouettes, and the one on snow photography. Snow is a pretty obvious choice for me giving my past and being a skier. I have also done a little work with silhouettes and would say its one of my most favorite types of photography.
One thing that I learned is that there can be silhouettes with different types of light. Such as different colors in the color palette. Maybe I will try to compose a shot like that for my final. My problem is that I can't "see" the image before I take it. I like to shoot at what I think is pretty while I am there. If I think it looks good, and I know what a good image looks like, then I will be happy. I guess I need to work on planning before hand so that I can take even better pictures.
As for the snow pictures, I haven't had my camera much during winter. And it was only here in Billings so not much on the snow aspect. I can't wait to be in California sometime soon with my new camera! Unlike with the silhouettes, I do have some ideas on this type of photo. I have always wanted to take a time exposure of a street lamp while the snow is really dumping. My dream is that you would be able to see the flakes as streaks. I am not sure if it would even look good but I still want to try.