Thank you for sharing! I grew up in Florida, and now I live far away from any true wetlands. I miss the swamps. The area I live in has regular wet land only, which is NOT the same thing to anyone fortunate enough to know better! I wish more states invested in making that land accessible like Florida does for its tourists. State parks and at least one city park that I remember have boardwalks through the woods where it gets swampy. The ecology is so unique in those places.
Some great shots. I like the ones with the Depth of feel focus the best. I can't say I recall seeing that used in the swamp photography genre, at least recently. Kidding, but seriously it gives the images more of an artistic touch than everything in focus. I'm at some weird point where I think focus is overrated, and it's better for everyone if we don't focus on everything, if we allow the edges to be soft or even the subject in some instances. It's a new idea I've been circling back to and was reminded of it again in the images.
Personally I've been moving in the other direction because I've been doing so much shallow depth of field photography with an old Canon FD 50mm lens lately. I really like the dreamy style of it but was also inspired in the other direction by watching Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" recently. He does so much amazing stuff with a deep depth of field and the blocking of actors. A different animal from still photography of course, but it sure would be nice to have the time and resources to work with actors like that and create meaningful moving compositions in that vein.
That’s a good ole swamp. I am surrounded by swamp land and I feel so lucky.
It's a pretty neat feature of the planet, I've gotta say.
Thank you for sharing! I grew up in Florida, and now I live far away from any true wetlands. I miss the swamps. The area I live in has regular wet land only, which is NOT the same thing to anyone fortunate enough to know better! I wish more states invested in making that land accessible like Florida does for its tourists. State parks and at least one city park that I remember have boardwalks through the woods where it gets swampy. The ecology is so unique in those places.
Some great shots. I like the ones with the Depth of feel focus the best. I can't say I recall seeing that used in the swamp photography genre, at least recently. Kidding, but seriously it gives the images more of an artistic touch than everything in focus. I'm at some weird point where I think focus is overrated, and it's better for everyone if we don't focus on everything, if we allow the edges to be soft or even the subject in some instances. It's a new idea I've been circling back to and was reminded of it again in the images.
Thank you! And I appreciate this:
"I think focus is overrated and it's better for everyone if we don't focus on everything."
Personally I've been moving in the other direction because I've been doing so much shallow depth of field photography with an old Canon FD 50mm lens lately. I really like the dreamy style of it but was also inspired in the other direction by watching Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" recently. He does so much amazing stuff with a deep depth of field and the blocking of actors. A different animal from still photography of course, but it sure would be nice to have the time and resources to work with actors like that and create meaningful moving compositions in that vein.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cinematimshel/p/photo-essay-descent-into-winter?r=16t7t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
If there's a peatbog nearby, I can't recommend walking on it enough.
Be careful if it's a schwingmoor, though. There are lakes under those and for all I know it's possible to fall through.
https://substack.com/@cinematimshel/note/c-104909875