May 16, 2022

I do a lot of walking and hiking in the PNW’s old growth forests. When it’s sunny out it can be difficult to get photos that work - lots of shadow and contrast make for distracting images. (Here and here.) I’m trying to lean into stronger compositional elements - lines, shapes - to compensate.

This first one has a neat fractal pattern that stands out well against the light background. Still messy, but at least it’s messy in an interesting way.

The second one is a “filler” photo; there’s no real subject, it’s just a generic nature shot. The strong vertical lines stood out to me.

And finally, this one has a nice subject separation due to the low-contrast background. I think I actually hit focus on this but the high contrast and thin DOF makes it feel blurry.