Willamette

Willamette River, Portland, Oregon – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Willamette River, Portland, Oregon – 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.

Canon 5DMk2, 20mm, F11, 1/60th sec, ISO 400, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

Down by the Willamette (River) that flows through Portland, I found myself able to watch the day life of many locals as they walked their dogs, exercised and generally enjoyed life by the river. It was a blustery, cold day, with clouds that swept by as if they were in a rush themselves. In colour, this was a fairly bland shot, but capturing it in some high contrast black and white gave it a lot more of a documentary feel.

Willamette River, Portland, Oregon – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Go into your camera settings and increase the contrast, if you have this ability. Most DSLRs do. When you do this you increase the tension on the image. The way light and shadow intersect is important to define what is happening. You’ll find the more contrast in your image, the more of a reaction from your viewers.