Video Tutorials
The Hard Work Happens Before You Press the Shutter: Lessons from Lac de Cheserys at Sunset
There’s a version of landscape photography that looks effortless in the final image. Still water. Perfect light. Mountains glowing like they were lit by a gaffer. What you don’t see is the three-hour climb to get there, the foreboding clouds that had everyone quietly preparing for disappointment, and the dinner eaten while mentally rehearsing a backup plan. That gap between what the photograph shows and what it cost is something I’ve been thinking about for twenty years, and it’s exactly what Thomas Heaton captures so honestly in this tutorial shot above the Chamonix Valley in France.
