SOFT LIGHT, UNTOUCHED SNOW, AND A TIBETAN MONK.
I've been trying my best to get the hang on this winter and snow photography for the last few months. Still struggling with compositions, but I think my obsession for light may have helped me a little bit further.
Using the light to frame up a composition seems to works great in winter and snow images too, and the transition between light and shadows looks much more amazing with snow than the more or less messy woodland floor.
The biggest problem so far have been finding an area without human activity. People seems to be walking all over in the open woodland, not only on the roads and narrow paths. Just the same problem as on sandy beaches, I guess.
So many times have I worked my butt of framing up a nice peaceful composition, and while I'm waiting for the light someone have decided to walk straight through it because that was easier than walk around. In these situations I remember the spikes I’ve put on my tripod, just to gert it steady of course, but the temptation start burning in my head.
I’ve always thought of myself as a very nice and gentle soul, calm and with great roof heights regarding irritating over the shoulder experts and annoying disruptions from people passing by and suddenly decide to show me how to compose my image by walking into the fame and pointing at different objects.
Up until now the conversation have been something like; "Hi, good morning, nice conditions in the woodland today. No, I'm not photographing birds, I'm a woodland photographer. Yes, the snow looks beautiful." But in my head it's been; "You f.... piece of s.... Get your b..... a.. out of my composition!!!!"
Then I end up packing down my camera gear and start looking for another composition.
Getting out and about before anyone else has become mandatory if I want clean untouched snow, and to avoid beating the hell out of the next person walking into my composition.
Hopefully as a photographer I'm shaped from the ground up as a calm peaceful being, with patience and emotional control, just like a Tibetan monk.
Melting Light
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