Does Fine Art Landscape Photos STILL EXIST

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[@stefanberndt3734]

Hello Toma!
It's been a while since I commented anything, but your thoughts are very similar to what goes through my mind, recently, or for almost a year now. You have some good points.
But let me expand on one thing you said, because I made an experience that somewhat opened my eyes: I introduced myself in front of a small group of fine-art photographers, they called themself like that! They were not the greatest and most famous ones, rather localy regarded. I had high expectations to get in touch with those people.
The meeting was a disaster.
It turns out they where absolute snobs with money and the right connections, to make it short. They make technically ok photos, but with a very high investment in technique and material. Everything is „the best“. The pictures are mediocre, but printed very big on high quality materials from 100MP or so, they sure impress. But talking to those guys quickly shows, they might have learned the craft, but rely on very simple subjects; that minimalist approach you sure know was what could be seen at most. Also money was no objective when it comes to traveling, so they could proudly tell, they worked on all continents ... well, nice for them.
How comes they seem to be relatively succesful, have shows in galleries and really actually sell their work? It's connections. To wealthy people, whey where whelthy as well, so it stays inside the class. Probably thats what I frankly confess I envy: They were sucessful to get a foot in the door of that class or group of people who really buy fine art, probably art of any kind. But the specific group of people I met was part of that same class already before.
And thats what I learned: Fine Art is a for a huge part classism. We all know art is a social thing. It has always been. Probably I already knew this before this encounter. But only after I experienced it, I also understood, and not in a nice way: I was not in their class and they let me feel it. (They got really rude when I said I don't find his/her picture so great and started to talk what could be better... that was funny... I just broke the rules.) It got nothing to do at all with the actual photographs. It's just a social game.
For me the photography is much more important than this game, I'm probably really not the one to learn it's rules and play it. But that's what you need to do to get into this fine art world.
There might be exceptions, maybe true genius will find it's way never the less.
Sorry for the long post and the bad English, I hope it can be understood.
So, happy shooting and not thinking to much of fine art.

[@ianroy6668]

I totally agree with your perspective, and the question does give thought and conversation. Back in the day, photography was a specialised art accessible to only those that could afford it. But since digital cameras arrived on the scene photography has became accessible to almost everyone. So back in the day when a tree on a lakeside was photographed it was practically unique and had a wow factor to the way it was captured. Now that same tree is photographed tens, hundreds and maybe thousands of times, as such that scene is less unique, though it doesn't make it any less beautiful. That being said, not everyone with a digital camera is able to capture that tree at that lake in an eye catching way that says wow look at me, that still remains our journey of learning. The aesthetic depiction or the creativity expressed in the way a scene is captured can still create a high sense of appreciation that separates it from the general art of photography. So in that sense I would say that fine art photography still exists in landscape photography in the same way that it does in any other genre of photography.

[@KimRormarkphotography]

It's well known that someone with a mediocre product can outsell someone with a superior product solely because of effective marketing. Regardless of a product's quality, sales rely on marketing efforts. For effective marketing, targeting the right audience is crucial.
Many landscape photographers, focused on selling fine art prints, struggle to identify their ideal customers and where to reach them. They engage in photographer groups and forums to showcase their work, but the likelihood of selling to fellow photographers is minimal.
I still believe there is a market for fine art prints; galleries and websites specialising in fine art would not exist otherwise.

[@lindefraser9148]

Great topic and enjoyable vlog!

[@BonciuToma]

Thanks so much!

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

Great video!!

[@BonciuToma]

thanks a lot