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Photographing a waterfall in a tropical landscape

Photographing a waterfall in a tropical landscape

From the course: Landscape Photography: Tropical Scenes

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Photographing a waterfall in a tropical landscape

- One of the classic subjects that go hand in hand with tropical landscapes are waterfalls. Here in Hawaii, we have very wet parts of the island and very dry, and as you can tell, by how lush and incredible this is, this is one of the wet areas of Maui. As a result you get lush foliage, and lots of waterfalls. I love to photograph waterfalls. I definitely encourage you to check out my course Photographing Waterfalls and Streams to get an in depth how to on photographing waterfalls. Here in Hawaii, it's very difficult, it's challenging, because in the stream itself, the rocks don't tend to be moss covered as well as they are in Oregon, for example. It's a bit of a challenge. My goal here is to really try and tell the story of the lush foliage around the waterfall. Now, a lot of the waterfalls here are crowded. People are swimming in them, and taking pictures, and I was lucky enough to find this waterfall out of the corner of my eye as I was driving on the road. Was able to find a…

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