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Using a long lens to try to get the look of a miniature ice village

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Using a long lens to try to get the look of a miniature ice village

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- Photographing in a forest has such diversity. We've just come across this incredible frozen village. I've never seen ice form this way, ever. I mean, it's amazing. I think it's a result of the mist from the waterfall coming up and freezing in such a way and if you look around the entire forest, there's no more ice. There's no snow, so to see this in this environment... Unbelievable. It's a very surreal experience. And I can't wait to make an image out of it. Now in order to do that, I've switched lenses. We've left the wide angle in the bag, and we've got the telephoto out. The telephoto lens, and this one's a 70 to 300, is gonna enable us to zoom in and isolate an abstract pattern within the ice. To just get a wide angle shot of everything going on here, it documents the scene, but it doesn't create art. It doesn't create something interesting for the viewer to look at and say, what on earth is that? We really wanna engage the viewer. With my long lens, I then handheld to compose…

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