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Ben, it is interesting that as much as I like your work, we always seem to be headed in the opposite direction. I have been thinking that it has been about 100 years since pictorialism was replaced by straight photography. The Ansel Adams, Group f/64, approach has dominated landscape photography. We have been looking for sharp focus, high contrast and color saturation in every part of our images, side to side, front to back. I am not looking to return to pictorialism, but the idea of sharp focus, high contrast and color saturation really does not make sense. Certainly for centuries landscape painters have been creating depth by showing gradations with backgrounds having softer focus, lower contrast, lower saturation.
Maybe this will not show well for a web image, but for my recent print of this image, the LaSalle mountains are decidedly soft and low contrast and the colors are soft and muted. To emphasize this effect, I plan on shooting more landscapes at wider apertures and focused on the foreground.
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