Students from the first-year photography and multimedia class at the Zespół Szkół Handlowych i Usługowych in Bolesławiec, together with their vocational teachers – Grzegorz Matoryn and Robert Pomichter – visited an exhibition of mountain photography at the Palace in Bukowiec, seeking inspiration for themselves. (The 21st Biennale of Mountain Photography is the oldest event of its kind in Poland and is organized by the Jeleniogórskie Centrum Kultury. Its history spans 40 years. The competition was open to everyone photographing mountains, their beauty and all manifestations of human activity in mountainous areas. Participants were expected to submit photographs taken in mountains around the world. In addition to professional photographic artists, photography enthusiasts also took part).
The students viewed beautiful mountain landscapes and analyzed how individual photographs had been taken.
A workshop in the Bukowiec Landscape Park had been planned for the young photography enthusiasts. There, they learned about landscape photography. They discovered that it is worth choosing deep spaces and remembering that it is not the choice of equipment, but the selection of the landscape and proper framing, that will determine whether a photograph is interesting. After all, the most important thing is the eye of the person behind the lens!
In a landscape photograph, besides the “strong points,” the foreground—the elements closest to the viewer—is also important. Capturing an interesting object in the foreground and showing it, so to speak, against the backdrop of an expansive landscape guarantees an engaging photograph.
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In addition to landscapes, the students took photographs using natural light. When taking portraits, the students paid attention to pose, facial expression, gesture and directness. The photographs were created amid beautiful ponds, old trees and the mausoleum of the park’s founders, Count and Countess von Reden.
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The results of their work can be seen in our gallery. Congratulations to the students and their supervisors, G. Matoryn and R. Pomichter, on their beautiful autumn photographs.