I'm just a forester with an OM-D E-M10 Mk IV, who like to take photos when I'm out in the field. Clearly I'm not a great photographer, but I do have fun.Lens is a TTArtisan 17mm F1.4
It has been over a year since I last posted on any boards here. WTF is this captcha?Like seriously WTF?
I didn't know this photo was foreshadowing before I took it...
I call this one, "Your Mother's Butthole"
AT&T, reach out and touch someone.
That is all grapevine and blackberry briars. I've very happy I had no plot points falling into that shit.
After this photo it was all trudging through year old hurricane blow down.
There is a road under here somewhere...
If you ever wondered what crawling trough the top of a downed mature hickory tree was like, I can honestly tell you it is the exact opposite of fun.
At this point I was becoming physically exhausted from working in the blowdown, but I wasn't mentally done.
So you know when Treebeard is going on about old trees with deep roots?It doesn't work like that. The vast overwhelming majority of tree species, so overwhelming that I can't think of the exceptions off the top of my head (they are in SE Asia though), get shallower root systems the larger the stem gets.
At this point I was cutting back down the mountain. Had maybe 2hrs of sunlight left, and didn't want to spend 4hrs retracing my steps through the blowdown. The way down was essentially 50-60% slope followed by a bench followed by another 50-60% slope followed by a bench...rinse and repeat to the bottom.One really steep spot I just ass-scooched my way down, rather than risk a broken ankle. Was like sledding on my butt.
Weird that you can be a full days hike up a mountain, but still damn close to something that pretends to be civilization.
Last one.Tomorrow I'm going to be trying out a vintage Super Albinar 35-105mm F3.5 OM mount manual zoom lens on a Shoten adapter. Not sure it will be a regular field lens for me. It is way way larger than the TTArtisan; worried I'll be constantly hitting it off trees.
Based. I find woodlands photography incredibly hard unless it's foggy. With fog it's ez-mode. Without it's just visual chaos.
OP, most of your pictures suck. Try to put your camera close to a tree and point it upwards. Try playing with close and far plans and blur. For example blurry close up grass or pine and focused mountain on the horizon. Try catch some great lighting when light is beaming through the tree tops.
