Overview
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Explore the challenges of shooting landscape photos of lush rain forests and moody beaches in Washington's Olympic National Park.
Syllabus
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Introduction to the Olympic National Forest
- Welcome
- Introducing the Sol Duc Valley
- Defining the HIPS acronym for the shooting workflow
- Taking a serene water shot in a flowing creek
- Creating a more powerful foreground-to-background relationship
- Setting up the shot of the falls on the bridge
- Taking a shot of the falls from the center of the bridge
- Shooting the falls wide from a different perspective
- Using a long lens to try to get the look of a miniature ice village
- Isolating the mossy trees in a busy forest
- Compressing the depth of the forest to get the composition
- Getting a macro shot on the forest floor
- Wrapping up the Sol Duc Valley shoot location
- Post-processing on the water shot from the creek
- Applying a recipe to the post work on an image
- Reviewing other post-processing tips for the Sol Duc images
- Shooting reflective pools with a foreground-and-background relationship in mind
- Shooting water channels in the foreground
- Working with S curves and triangles in the composition
- Using a neutral-density filter to get a silky ocean-wave image
- Shooting the sea stacks from within the water
- Blending two images to achieve the look
- Finalizing the post-process image blend
- Introducing the Hoh Rain Forest location and shoot plan
- Isolating elements in the Hoh Rain Forest first shot
- Isolating a tree as a subject in the composition
- Shooting trees in the Hall of Mosses with a long lens
- Using the pathway as a leading line
- Using a long lens to isolate patterns in the moss
- Using a tilt-shift lens to correct distortion in the forest image
- Using the tilt-shift lens for a panorama
- Finding a shot of fall-foliage color in the Hoh Rain Forest
- Comparing shots with polarization
- Stitching the tilt-shift panorama
- Final image review and selects from the shoot
