I'm flying to Buenos Aires this evening to begin my photo tour to Patagonia, one of the best areas in the world for great landscapes. Several years ago when I traveled here, they had had a fire that unfortunately damaged a lot of the very slow-growing vegetation. This is one example. It's a favorite picture of mine from the trip, but at the same time it's sad that the hand of man is so often destructive. For the composition, I used what I call the 'Classic landscape technique' that I learned from David Muench at the beginning of my career way back in the 70's. It involves finding a striking foreground and composing it very close to the camera position while using a wide angle lens and a small lens aperture for maximum depth of field. This makes the foreground disproportionately large compared to the background. My settings for this shot were 1/60, f/32, and 400 ISO, and I used a 24mm wide angle.
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