Location Scouting, Focus Stacking, and Sky Ethics: What I Learned from Ramtin Kazemi's Landscape Workflow

Location Scouting, Focus Stacking, and Sky Ethics: What I Learned from Ramtin Kazemi's Landscape Workflow

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from standing in a genuinely beautiful place and knowing your image isn’t going to match what you’re seeing. The foreground rock is sharp, the distant ridge is a smear. Or the light is extraordinary but the sky is a flat white sheet. These aren’t beginner problems. They follow you into your twentieth year behind a camera if you don’t have clean, deliberate systems for handling them.