Field Notes
SUMMARY
Letting that pressure take over can sometimes get you results that are technically sound but don’t make you proud or happy in the long run because they’re overdone. No wonder Scottish landscape photographer Alister Benn asks, “What happens when you stop forcing the photograph?” What he found to be an antidote of sorts is to pay attention to the compositions that the landscape is opening up to you, not what the place has come to be “iconic” for. Let your intuition—not the plan—take over, and allow it to guide you toward what resonates with you the most.
TAKEAWAYS
Letting that pressure take over can sometimes get you results that are technically sound but don’t make you proud or happy in the long run because they’re overdone.
No wonder Scottish landscape photographer Alister Benn asks, “What happens when you stop forcing the photograph?”
What he found to be an antidote of sorts is to pay attention to the compositions that the landscape is opening up to you, not what the place has come to be “iconic” for.
Let your intuition—not the plan—take over, and allow it to guide you toward what resonates with you the most.