Winter offers stunning photographic opportunities, and this lone tree in northern Michigan is an example. I took this years ago with a medium format film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67. Back then, everything I shot was from a tripod, and virtually all of my landscape work was done at f/32. No one had ever heard of focus stacking, so all we had was the use of small apertures to create complete depth of field. I remember I took this with a 250mm lens which, in the 35mm digital format we use now, was equivalent to a 135mm telephoto. I used to derive all of my exposure information with a hand held light meter set on incident mode, and that meant the light falling onto the meter was analyzed as opposed to light being reflected from the subject or scene. This, in turn, meant the light readings were always spot on (with the exception of backlit scenes). In other words, the white on white color theme wouldn't adversely affect the meter reading.
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