{"id":571,"date":"2015-05-24T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:43:49","slug":"photos-can-do-redwoods-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/2015\/05\/24\/photos-can-do-redwoods-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos can do redwoods justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years. I&#8217;ve read a lot of articles and image captions, where people claimed &#8220;photos cannot do justice for the redwoods&#8221;. The comments \u00a0often referred to photos falling-short of conveying size. \u00a0It may be that most of them do not know how to compose that type of image. But I realized that the bigger the redwood is, the harder can be to take-in the entire size. I recall my first visit to one of the 10 largest coast redwoods. I did not \u00a0realize \u00a0it was a titan tree, because walking nearby around it, I could \u00a0see about one quarter \u00a0circumference. What photos can&#8217;t convey is the <strong>&#8220;feel&#8221;<\/strong> of the redwood forest; the scents or feeling you \u00a0get standing in a grove.<\/p>\n<p>But to convey size, a photo can do more justice than trying to explain it. Consider the composite image National Geographic printed \u00a0October 2009. The view that the photographer captured was a sight \u00a0none of the research climbers could ever see. The climbers could see \u00a0pieces \u00a0each climb. But never that much in one view. \u00a0Especially with a human for scale.<\/p>\n<p>If you photograph with a person for scale and want to accurately convey a redwood&#8217;s size, ask them to stand half way back at the side of the trunk. Not behind it and not in front of it. Just mid-way.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_572\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atkins_RNP_600B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-572\" class=\"size-full wp-image-572\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atkins_RNP_600B.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Atkins by a Coast Redwood\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atkins_RNP_600B.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Atkins_RNP_600B-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Atkins by a Coast Redwood<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years. I&#8217;ve read a lot of articles and image captions, where people claimed &#8220;photos cannot do justice for the redwoods&#8221;. The comments \u00a0often referred to photos falling-short of conveying size. \u00a0It may be that most of them do not know how to compose that type of image. But I realized that the bigger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast-redwood","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}