Climbing Photography

The Autry National Center of the American West is currently showcasing an exhibit of mountain climbing photography from Yosemite National Park. If you’re in the neighborhood—Los Angeles’ Griffith Park—it’s worth a visit. For the rest of us, we’ll have to settle for finding some of our favorite climbing photos online. Galen Rowell was not only an acknowledged master photographer, but climbing comprised a large role in his work as well. For Rowell, the adventure was a crucial part of the photography—and it shows in his magnificent work. Check out his photographs online at the Mountain Light web site. Simon Carter’s Onsight Photography gallery provides a slightly different perspective—with climbing photos from around the world and a bit of an emphasis on the Australian photographer’s home continent. And if you’re interested in trying a bit of climbing photography yourself, the RockClimbing.com web site has a great forum with tips, tricks and insights from other climber/shooters.
http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/granitefrontiers/
http://www.mountainlight.com/
http://www.onsight.com.au/gallery/index.php
http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=45

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Friday, 26 June 2009

My brother who is a Payday lender wants to do climbing photography. There are different ways to do climbing photography, depending on where you are climbing and what you want to show. For instance, take mountain climbing: basically you take pictures while you are climbing. If you take only a close up of your partner, it's not too interesting in itself so you need to include some background to show how high up you are, what kind of climbing your are doing... So it's actually closer to scenic photography, except that you want to convey that you are in the picture (or the back of it), living an adventure and not just taking a picture of some mountain from the road. Back home you can sort out the 3 basic kinds of pictures that come out of such a trip: climber close up, pure landscape and climber(s) included in scenery. It's quite important to vary those 3 types of shots no one wants to see 100 pictures of mountains in succession, even if they are all perfect.

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