Field Craft
Why Forest Photography Breaks Your Meter (And How to Shoot It Anyway)
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from standing in a cathedral of old-growth Douglas fir at golden hour, the light doing something genuinely extraordinary through the canopy, and watching your histogram blow out in six different places at once. I’ve been shooting landscapes full-time for two decades, and forests still give me more trouble per square foot than any other environment. Open alpine, coastal, desert slot canyons - those have hard rules you can memorize.
