The theme for this week is Artistic: Land
A very open theme this week. Your inspiration is land. This could be a landscape, or an image inspired by the land in some way. The choice is yours.
You can find some tips for shooting landscapes on your phone here.
Some general tips on landscape photography can be found here:
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-tips/landscape-photography-tips/
- https://digital-photography-school.com/11-surefire-tips-for-improving-your-landscape-photography/
- http://www.techradar.com/how-to/photography-video-capture/cameras/the-10-commandments-of-landscape-photography-and-how-to-break-them-1320832
The category is artistic so use this week to go as wild as you like.
Send your challenge to photos@iyt.org.au. Remember to include a description which covers the subject and/or the process.
SUBMISSIONS
From country to city and shades of between. This is how you interpreted ‘land’
Amanda
For this week’s challenge I used my love of wine was to be my inspiration and destination, so off to wine country I went.
Destination: Yarra Valley whoo hoo!
I travelled to a few wineries (and bought a bottle of wine or two along the way) and found a winery, with a lovely Pinot Noir, off the main road.
Down the same street were some beautiful properties that to me depicted Australian Land and gave me some great shots for this challenge. I had such a great day!
Oops forgot to say I took the photo on my iPhone and used colour enhancers on adobe photo shop.

NEIL
Subdued dawn chorus

SAMARA
Almost forgot to send this to you!
This was shot on an iPhone since I forgot to bring an SD card with me on my shoot *head smack* It’s been pretty heavily cropped and had the saturation and vibrancy of colours all increased in Lightroom. I also increased the clarity and the exposure for the white. Feeling much better now that Brett has allowed me to go back to post processing. I’m trying to work out if I am going overboard with the post given I’m quite a newbie, or if I’m just developing my own style (I love colour, clarity and blowing out images).
Looking forward to seeing how everyone else interpreted this week!

DAYNA
Lucky Winter Solstice was this week or I’d either have to had to wake up much earlier, or submit a less colourful photo.
Taken on my phone on my ride to work.
My commute is – by far – the best part of my day.

HILARY
Two or three times a week I travel to Melton in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs for work. In amongst the built up suburban area is this little oasis Hannah Watts Park, named after one of the early pioneers. Great place for a peaceful moment of reflection and a quick shot on the phone.

JO
Looking from Waterloo Beach to Oyster Bay in Swansea, Tasmania. Winter’s afternoon. Warmth of the colours in the sky, and the landscape contradict the actual temperature of the day.

ELIZA

TESSA
Earlier in the week I camped in the Victorian Alps. This pic is from near the summit of Mt Sterling. I took two shots on my point-and-shoot and then stitched them together.

JESS
If I had a super-duper camera (rather than my phone) I would have loved to try to get some of the leaves drifting from the trees. Will have to check out some of the apps you suggested to try

VINCENT
The Red Sand Garden of the Cranbourne Royal Botanic Gardens. The slates add an artistic touch to the otherwise plain foreground and leads our vision to the native bushes beyond.

SARMA
Wasn’t exactly sure what this week was about so I’ve got a landscape shot from a quick drive around Listerfield. The ‘artistic’ is in the changes I made to improve the look (I hope). Cropped. Played with colour and saturation to bring out more detail in the sky. Duplicated image on top. Ran ‘softglow’ filter over top image to bring out the paler grass. Erased sky from top layer to reveal darker sky from bottom image. Used ‘clone’ to remove some straggly bits from top of bush on left hand side for better visual balance. Photo from camera.

MEG
An escape to Sydney gave me loads of opportunity to landscape

KIM

RUTH

BRETT

KOSTAS
Walking around Daylesford on Saturday, I took a few photos at various places around the lake and surrounding areas. But the day was not the best and straight of the camera I wasn’t pleased with the mood. Since the theme this week is “creative”, I then enjoyed some retouching on Saturday evening: I named this style “Misty HDR”.
Nikon D810, 36mm f/16, ISO 800
Post-processing in Lightroom, Photoshop.

JENNI
The Rocks Sydney. Snapshot on a Samsung S6

CORY
Ran out of time. Riding home late this afternoon. Saw the light.

ANDREW
When this brief landed it was the night before we came home from our amazing Canada trip – full of amazing landscapes, but no time on last day to find something that I wanted to submit (I had loads from previous days, but didn’t want to cheat and use those). But the first thing that jumped out at me when reading the brief…wasn’t actually landscape at all…more the use of land. So in our small garden (mostly AstroTurf) we have a small patch of land that we have grown some Garlic and some Grapes. The Garlic was ready to pick…so this was my inspiration.
Played around with my Nikon D3100 on manual focus and Aperture (F3.5) to try and blur a bit of the background.

JOSIE

TANIA

Linda

Santana

SHAWN

Anthony
