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Let it be a dream

Another image title taken from a favourite song, this time the silver torches.

I have been having a few compositional and location-based issues recently which has affected by passion for photography somewhat. If there is one thing I have learnt about woodland photography, it is that woodlands are not all made equally, not all lend themselves to producing photogenic images, it has taken me a long time exploring to find the area's I now head to when conditions are favourable. Fortunately, one of these areas is no more than 800m from my house. This local woodland however is frequented by two very famous photographers which when I first discovered the area, I was unaware of.

This woodland happens to have about a 100m stretch of some of the most photogenic tree's you could ever imagine, throw in the fact I can see and walk to the woodland from my house and you have the perfect recipe for getting ideal woodland conditions, if I look out my window and can't see the woodland for the fog, there is only one place I am heading.

Now retrospectively looking at my images some no doubt have elements of images made by the photographers who have explored this area before me, that is hard to escape when the area is as photographically stunning as it is, at first, I purposely stayed away from the most obvious compositions, but the more time I spent in the woodland the more I was pulled towards them.

Which leads me to the question of how do you approach shooting a scene that may have already been published and still maintain your own artistic integrity whilst at the same time respecting the more established photographer.

📷 Nikon D850
🔘 Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8
⚙️ ISO100 • F8 • 0.8s • 40mm
📐 Benrouk
🎒 Shimodadesign
lightroom/Photoshop
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Taken on: September 11, 2022

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/8.0, 0.8 sec, 40mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Lens:	24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.8
Focal Length:	40mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.0.1 (Macintosh)
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