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Photographing the painted eucalyptus trees

Photographing the painted eucalyptus trees

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Photographing the painted eucalyptus trees

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- The key is to isolate the trees in this situation here. We've got groupings, now, to get a group of trees that work together is such a wonderful combination and that's what I'm trying to capture here. I've got a long lens on, I've got a 70 to 300 and I'm zoomed in past 200 millimeters. And what I'm trying to do is compress and group the trees together so that they look even closer than they do in person in that final image. I'm also doing everything I can to make sure there is no sky. As I look in this scene I see little white patches, and those are little holes through the trees which bring in that bright white sky, and that is a distraction and will affect the quality of that image, so I'm composing low enough to make sure I don't have any sky. I'm also kind of watching the sun as it goes through. I've got partly cloudy conditions, which means as soon as the clouds cover the sun, it's the diffuse light that I need. Any time I get any sunlight coming in it gets very spotty and…

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