Assessing landscape aesthetic values: Do clouds in photographs influence people's preferences?

ABSTRACT: Photo-based surveys are widely applied to elicit landscape preferences and to assess cultural ecosystem services. Variations in weather and light conditions can potentially alter people's preferences, as sunny landscapes are more positively perceived than those under inclement weather conditions. To assure comparability across pictures, studies usually include photographs taken at sunny days (i.e., blue sky). However, the influence of clouds in sunny landscapes on people's preferences has been rarely considered, although color contrasts between clouds and the blue sky may attract people's attention. This study therefore aimed to assess the effects of clouds in landscape photographs on people's preferences by (1) examining differences in preference between pairs of landscape photographs (i.

SUBMITTER: Tasser E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10381034 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature