Sleeping Giants
Last Sunday at Chanctonbury Ring, a prehistoric hillfort in West Sussex, England. South Downs National Park.
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Last Sunday at Chanctonbury Ring, a prehistoric hillfort in West Sussex, England. South Downs National Park.
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Learn how to take great landscape photos on my workshops: http:--www.photoss.net.
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Location
I took this photograph at Chanctonbury Ring, a prehistoric hillfort (or hill fort) in West Sussex, England. South Downs National Park.Time
Mid afternoon in early spring.Lighting
It was a very windy day, but full of glorious clouds which afforded me many opportunities. Since the clouds kept coming and going, and the sun sometimes disappeared behind them, I had wait a few minutes to get some dappled light, partially filtered through the clouds, for this scene (and many other photos from that day).Equipment
Canon 5DII, Canon 17-40@17, tripod, and probably a 1stop ND graduated filter plus a polariser.Inspiration
When I found this old tree I saw the potential in it and wanted to use its twisted, mossy roots as my main focus in a wide angle composition. I felt the windswept trees in the distance complemented the scene well.Editing
Contrary to what many landscape photographers would have you believe, landscape photography does not require a lot of post-processing. I spend about a minute on a single RAW image when developing in software, and 95% of the time only apply general simple WB/colour and tonal corrections, which was all that this image needed. Instead I rely on the choice light, perspective, timing and try to do almost all of the work before actually pressing the shutter release button.In my camera bag
A full frame camera, a range of lenses covering focal lengths from super-wide to telephoto, neutral density graduated filter, polarisers, "big stopper".Feedback
Photographing woodlands, forests, or even smaller groups of trees is often challenging, because these environments are inherently busy and consequently it's often difficult to create a strong composition. Find an interesting foreground tree as your main focal point and try to create visual distance between it and the busyness behind and around it. You can achieve it by finding angles which simply offer physical distance, by using a wide-angle lens, which will exaggerate the distance; when there is a lot of atmosphere in the air - fog, smoke etc. - it can create further separation between your subject matter and the busy background. And... avoid direct sunlight coming from behind you, in most cases it will give you flat and overly contrasty images.
