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Taking care not to interfere with your own shots

Taking care not to interfere with your own shots

From the course: Travel Photography: Mountains and Snow Landscapes

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Taking care not to interfere with your own shots

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I came down in here because I was drawn to these wonderful patterns that are opening up on the snow as the sun goes down. With the sun at a really oblique angle, I am getting all the undulations and all the texture off the snow and it's making these beautiful patterns. Then I thought if I could get out in it and actually be amongst it, maybe I could get wide angle shots of the patterns radiating away and who knows what else I might find. But I have a problem now because if I walk across that I wreck it all. So, I'm having to kind of move forward being sure I've got every shot that I would want to take looking that way before I walk that way. In that regard, shooting in the snow is again a lot like shooting in sand dunes. If you've watched my Death Valley course, you know that I ran into the same problems there. So I'm really having to strategize. What's cool about that need to strategize is, it means that I'm really having to look and see and think and previsualize and imagine myself…

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