High Country

High Country, Walter Peak – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

High Country, Walter Peak – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection, landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

Sony A6000, handheld, 50mm, F11, 1/160th sec, ISO 100, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

Captured from the back deck of the SS Earnslaw, I deliberately waited until I got far enough away to be able to zoom back in. This meant I kept the perspective of the scene correct, rather than it being skewed by a wide angle lens. I wanted to showcase the extreme light and shadow in this image, leaving the colour for the homestead and it’s surrounding trees.

High Country, Walter Peak – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

When you are far from something and you zoom in, the perspective remains correct. When you are close to something and you zoom out to make it a wide angle shot, you distort the perspective. Why is this important. Scale is why. When you want to showcase a small house or landmark against a gigantic set of mountains or something similar, you are demonstrating scale. The size of the house against the mountains, makes the house seem tiny. If you distort this perspective, then scale does not work, unless you intentionally choose that kind of image. In this case I wanted to give an eye to eye view of exactly what I saw from a distance.