Landscape Photography: Washington's Olympic National Park

Explore the challenges of shooting landscape photos of lush rain forests and moody beaches in Washington's Olympic National Park.

Introduction to the Olympic National Forest

• Welcome

1. Shooting in the Sol Duc Valley

• Introducing the Sol Duc Valley
• Defining the HIPS acronym for the shooting workflow
• Taking a serene water shot in a flowing creek
• Creating a more powerful foreground-to-background relationship
• Setting up the shot of the falls on the bridge
• Taking a shot of the falls from the center of the bridge
• Shooting the falls wide from a different perspective
• Using a long lens to try to get the look of a miniature ice village
• Isolating the mossy trees in a busy forest
• Compressing the depth of the forest to get the composition
• Getting a macro shot on the forest floor
• Wrapping up the Sol Duc Valley shoot location
• Post-processing on the water shot from the creek
• Applying a recipe to the post work on an image
• Reviewing other post-processing tips for the Sol Duc images

2. Shooting Second Beach on the Olympic Peninsula

• Shooting reflective pools with a foreground-and-background relationship in mind
• Shooting water channels in the foreground
• Working with S curves and triangles in the composition
• Using a neutral-density filter to get a silky ocean-wave image
• Shooting the sea stacks from within the water
• Blending two images to achieve the look
• Finalizing the post-process image blend

3. Shooting in the Hoh Rain Forest

• Introducing the Hoh Rain Forest location and shoot plan
• Isolating elements in the Hoh Rain Forest first shot
• Isolating a tree as a subject in the composition
• Shooting trees in the Hall of Mosses with a long lens
• Using the pathway as a leading line
• Using a long lens to isolate patterns in the moss
• Using a tilt-shift lens to correct distortion in the forest image
• Using the tilt-shift lens for a panorama
• Finding a shot of fall-foliage color in the Hoh Rain Forest
• Comparing shots with polarization
• Stitching the tilt-shift panorama

4. Reviewing the Final Images

• Final image review and selects from the shoot