I am pleased to have Esteban Fabion Gentile, a multifaceted artist who has written a guest article that will surely do more than help him improve his compositional technique. Esteban is an Argentine painter, graphic designer and photographer specializing in landscape photography, winner of several international awards and with several European exhibitions on display. In today’s article, Stephen shares with us his own vision and his particular technique regarding landscape photography. Have you read right? Mario
At the beginning of my career as a photographer I was leaning towards the landscapes where I later discovered that if I added something to it that had to do with the environment, photography told a story.
- Although this object.
- This person.
- Etc.
- Is not there.
- I took them to the place.
- These kinds of photographs produced gave me very good results in my career.
- Winning several international awards and exhibitions in several countries.
- Argentina.
- Spain.
- France.
Is a clear example titled the work? Love Letter? where the landscape was formed by a rough sea full of huge waves, I looked at my house for an old bottle that belonged to my wife’s grandfather, I added a message inside, I placed it in the scene and I turned my camera hundreds of times, and to the image It was not the same, now there was a story.
I will tell you a little of my secret, I am trying to devise different scenarios, everything works as long as it is an interesting place, dunes, old locomotive, raging sea, pit of guard, once I have chosen the place where my creativity begins to work each place is the theme of history.
When working with these types of photographs, many become rhetorical works where you have to interpret, analyze and draw your own conclusions from what the artist wanted to express.
My advice as a photographer to all those who start with this great passion is not to photograph just to photograph, when I look in my viewfinder I try to see an image that I would like to hang as a painting at home, it is my secret.