I googled "Black and White landscape photographer." and got 40 000 000 links! No wonder those type photos sometimes come across as trite and commonplace, how do you create uniqueness when millions upon millions of people are shooting similar stuff?
One of the difficulties with being a photographer in 2013 is most subjects have been done to death in countless variations. People are so inundated with imagery on a daily basis they become blasé about the whole thing. Cindy Sherman says "When you look at a photograph you should be sucked into it.", but how do you suck people into a style of picture they have seen hundreds of thousands of times before? To be a great landscape photographer you even have to be better than other styles of photographers, with other photogs they can often get by because their subject is more unique (people have seen those styles of pictures less).
One of the difficulties with being a photographer in 2013 is most subjects have been done to death in countless variations. People are so inundated with imagery on a daily basis they become blasé about the whole thing. Cindy Sherman says "When you look at a photograph you should be sucked into it.", but how do you suck people into a style of picture they have seen hundreds of thousands of times before? To be a great landscape photographer you even have to be better than other styles of photographers, with other photogs they can often get by because their subject is more unique (people have seen those styles of pictures less).
