Who hasn't gotten a little choked up at some point standing in front of a tree that just stands out from the rest? Generally they're gorgeous, majestic beings that deserve to be looked at, photographed, and conserved.
In this “specialty,” everybody zooms in on different things — the shapes, the colors, as a whole inside a forest or as individual subjects. They all have “something” that pulls us in. No tricks here: there are so many lighting possibilities you can run into that trees are almost the perfect subject for experimenting and seeing what you get.
Alders, or so I think. R10, RFs18-150 at 24 mm, ISO 3200, f/8, 1/25
This pretty little spot, with how leafy the area was, was pretty dark. Still, I went with some pretty “aggressive” settings so I could keep detail in the shadows without blowing out the light coming in from the left. The shot is straight out of camera jpeg, and with a crop and a gentle edit, it'd definitely turn into a solid image.
Photobones: the Notepad comes in handy here, right?.
Yeah, it's good to jot down the shooting variations as you go, so later at home you can dig into the photos — not just the camera settings, you'll have those in the EXIF anyway, but the intentions, the conditions around you, and any configs you used.
