Am I missing the point?

[qplate]

I Really enjoy Landscape photography and regularly view the images submitted in the relevant section. However, there is something I just don't understand.
The vast majority of the images I see that contain bodies of water are fantastic. However, More and more seem to contain smoke instead of water.
Am I missing the point here? They are lovely pictures but to my mind a photograph is at least similar to what my eye sees.
I agree that they do have a certain attraction, it just seems that these 'smokey' images appear to be in the majority of images submitted.

Please don't take it the wrong way. I,m not stuck in my ways or trying to start an arguement of any sort. I,m just curious why?

Everything else that we all photograph, getting sharpness in the image is key, so why do we do this with water?

 

[ColinB]

Photography is an art-form. Depicting 'smokey' or 'silky' water is a way of getting across the feeling of water-movement, or atmosphere felt at the time of the shot.

The image from a photograph isn't just a snapshot of the scene in front of the taker, if it's being used as fine art as opposed to reportage, then the goal of the image is/should be to express either a feeling felt at the time, or to provide a glimpse of how beautiful the scene is or could be. Camera's are pretty poor at representing what the eye see's, so in using photographry as an art form we have to rely on other techniqes to get our point across.

Still water images, or moving water images are equally valid, it depends on the goal/aim of the image.

 

[AndWhyNot]

My motivation when shooting long exposures (at night) is to capture what the eye can't see

 

[Donki]

Photography is an art-form. Depicting 'smokey' or 'silky' water is a way of getting across the feeling of water-movement, or atmosphere felt at the time of the shot.

The image from a photograph isn't just a snapshot of the scene in front of the taker, if it's being used as fine art as opposed to reportage, then the goal of the image is/should be to express either a feeling felt at the time, or to provide a glimpse of how beautiful the scene is or could be. Camera's are pretty poor at representing what the eye see's, so in using photographry as an art form we have to rely on other techniqes to get our point across.

Still water images, or moving water images are equally valid, it depends on the goal/aim of the image.

:amstupid:

Of course this can be done to to various extremes, slightly blurred water to what you discribe as smokey water its up to the tog to create what he want others to see. Some people don't like the "wooly water" but hey thats art each to their own.

In my eyes photography isn't just taking a snap shot of what my eye is seeing its trying to capture the feeling and sound basically the atmosphere of where I am and trying to capture it all in a single image.

 

[Faldrax]

It is similar to what is often done with motorsport photography.

If you crank up the shutterspeed to 1/5000 then the whole image is frozen, with no feeling of the motion of the subject. Instead, a much lower speed is used, together with panning, to get the subject sharp and the background blurred - which provides the sense of movement.

 

[johnnypanic]

Photography is an art-form. Depicting 'smokey' or 'silky' water is a way of getting across the feeling of water-movement, or atmosphere felt at the time of the shot.

The image from a photograph isn't just a snapshot of the scene in front of the taker, if it's being used as fine art as opposed to reportage, then the goal of the image is/should be to express either a feeling felt at the time, or to provide a glimpse of how beautiful the scene is or could be. Camera's are pretty poor at representing what the eye see's, so in using photographry as an art form we have to rely on other techniqes to get our point across.

Still water images, or moving water images are equally valid, it depends on the goal/aim of the image.

Now that's what I call a comprehensive reply

 

[EOS7Pete]

It is similar to what is often done with motorsport photography.

If you crank up the shutterspeed to 1/5000 then the whole image is frozen, with no feeling of the motion of the subject. Instead, a much lower speed is used, together with panning, to get the subject sharp and the background blurred - which provides the sense of movement.

I do understand where the originator of this post is coming from, but this is the perfect answer