Re-visiting Travel Photos - Japan 2019 part 3 - Mount Fuji

Today's post is part 3 and the last part of the Japan 2019 travel photos. You might have seen some of these photos in the Printshop but I have tried a different edit on these ones here. The first two photos here are the only original edits that have been done before. Instead of showing you the updated photos that are in the shop, which have a similar edit to the original edit, I have decided to do a new edit and stay true to the green scenery in the photos.

Jumping straight into it, a lot of these photos follow the same premise. Bring the green scenery alive and showcase what is in the frame. Japan has a countryside that is just as beautiful as it's cityscape is. I wanted to bring that alive and show you all. You would have seen what the city of Japan is like from my last two blog posts, so today we will be looking at the landscape that Mount Fuji and its surrounding area had to offer.

One of my favourite photos would have to be the photo of the shrine. Sitting upon the rock platform really brings our attention to it, and the tree to its left is such a perfect placement for Mount Fuji in the background to sit between.

The top seven photos below are the ones that have been seen the least, compared to the ones after the seventh photos. So I'll speak about these ones a bit.

Most of the photos here look the same in colour so the difference between each one is more to do with the placement of the subjects and the composition.

I have been framing my subjects in the center in most photos and balancing out the frame by having it run linear, whether that's through following a line or leading the eye to a certain point in the frame.

Like the shot below, we have a line to follow with our eye, that leads us to the center of the frame, which then leads us to the mountains that take up the middle portion of the frame. The rule of thirds. It doesn't have to go from left to right, it can go from bottom to top.

Disposing of irrelevant information and keeping information that matters is also important when editing a photo. An example of this is the shot of the remote control car. The top right of the frame is messy with a lot happening. So I disposed of information that didn't matter to what I was wanting to capture. The remote control car is the main subject, but I decided to keep the two ladies that were taking a photo because 1 - It would have gotten rid of the depth in the frame if I cut them out, and 2 - It adds character and a bit of light comedy. Locals posing for Mount Fuji, something a lot of travels do. She is treating like the Eiffel tower.

For most of my mountain shots, I framed them in thirds. 1/3 is the ground, 2/3 is the mountain, 3/3 is the sky, or close enough to those measurements.

I have also been making video edits of each country I visited while going through Japan and Europe. Here is the link to the Japan video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1DadN_2kgo

Nothing else too much worth noting here, so I'll leave you all to browse the photos below. The separate gallery after this is two original edits I thought I would include.

Thanks for joining, and as always, stay safe. Until next time.