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Order or chaos?
Sometimes photos are deceiving because its our job as photographers to simplify the chaos and make "Art" out of it. However, the reality is the place itself could be very chaotic and the "order" that we created/presented could be a combination of many techniques. Like we might position our camera in a way to hide certain part of the messiness, or in post-processing cloning out some distractions etc.
Ok, back to this image - this was my first attempt this year to St.Helens trying to capture its beauty after a long winter here in Washington state. It was a calm night however followed by an unexpectedly harsh morning. It was crazy windy and snowflakes were blown around like knifes on my face. I set up my tent not far from this location, and had to rush back because I knew my 3-season tent wouldn't last long in this environment. Indeed it crashed when I went back.
This image was a quick capture of that morning, where I tried my best to embrace the cold, and still kept walking around trying to find some sort of order among all the chaos. I ended up focusing on these logs buried in snow which leads to the mountain. I quite like this image because of the side light lighting up the snow and logs.
Order or chaos?
Sometimes photos are deceiving because its our job as photographers to simplify the chaos and make "Art" out of it. However, the reality is the place itself could be very chaotic and the "order" that we created/presented could be a combination of many techniques. Like we might position our camera in a way to hide certain part of the messiness, or in post-processing cloning out some distractions etc.
Ok, back to this image - this was my first attempt this year to St.Helens trying to capture its beauty after a long winter here in Washington state. It was a calm night however followed by an unexpectedly harsh morning. It was crazy windy and snowflakes were blown around like knifes on my face. I set up my tent not far from this location, and had to rush back because I knew my 3-season tent wouldn't last long in this environment. Indeed it crashed when I went back.
This image was a quick capture of that morning, where I tried my best to embrace the cold, and still kept walking around trying to find some sort of order among all the chaos. I ended up focusing on these logs buried in snow which leads to the mountain. I quite like this image because of the side light lighting up the snow and logs.