From the course: Travel Photography: Mountains and Snow Landscapes

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Understanding how to shoot in the snow

Understanding how to shoot in the snow

From the course: Travel Photography: Mountains and Snow Landscapes

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Understanding how to shoot in the snow

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As I mentioned earlier, forests have always seemed to be a really difficult thing to shoot. Every time I get out in them, I get overwhelmed by all those vertical lines and all that visual noise and I don't like being in the cold and it's a, this was a scary shoot for me, photographically. I, I didn't know if I was going to be able to find anything, so it's really funny to come out here today and start seeing forms like this and go oh, it's just like shooting in Death Valley. I am really compositionally doing the same thing here that I would do in the dunes. I've got just this wonderful pure geometry, just these plays of tone and line. This could absolutely, color this yellow and it's sand and I already know how to do that. So this is great. I have come to this place that I thought was going to be really alien and difficult for me, and feel right at home, found that all of the shooting that I've been doing for years in the desert applies to here. This is why you shoot whatever's in…

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