Arguably the best known photographer in the world. No one was a greater post production master than landscape photographer Ansel Adams. Most landscape photos need post production and it's always been that way. Whatever your reason for shooting landscapes, one thing is constant. And some of the most spectacular light that you'll find is in those more wild parts of the world. Yet, as photographers, light is our medium. And if the wilderness experience is going well, I'm leaving a simpler, calmer mental state and going into one filled with thoughts of technical concerns and paper choice and printing inks and storage and so on. I'm reducing my experience to only visual. I'm actually placing a camera between me and the world. I find it paradoxical, then, that after feeling that sense of connectedness I raise my camera to my eye and begin a process that disconnects me from that place. We tend to engage with wilderness in a more visceral, connected way than we do with the environment that we usually live in. In my experience, what makes some wild places so compelling is the profound sense of presence that you feel while you're in those places. Landscape photography usually takes place in the more wild parts of the world, and the process begins when you are so taken by your surroundings that you feel compelled to photograph them. I find there's an odd paradox to landscape photography.
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