kodakeos wrote:
But I digress, I was at Redwood Natl forest in July and these trees are simply breathtaking.
Its sad that so few people know the majesty these trees have, and that photographing them is so VERY VERY difficult!
yes and even the best of photos doesn't can't capture it
I had been to them quite a few times when I was little and then not for quite a while and I mean I had seen them before and I knew they were amazing and I do sort of research on my own quite a bit about ancient forests across the US (and even world) so I really know quite a lot and had seen tons of photos even right before my last trip, but I when I finally visited them again I couldn't help but be overwhelmed even fully expecting it, somehow they always seem to far exceed your expectations.
It's not a surprise...NG is a political, agenda-driven publication. Its stories are nearly always skewed, left-leaning, and pro-environment to a degree that damns business and human progress.
I love the magazine from a photographic standpoint, but you must know how to decipher the hog$&i+ from the legitimate.
The NG Redwood article does, at least, present the arguement that logging is actually needed, but they continue w/ their assinine "global warming" or "climate change" is man's fault theme that's nauseating and losing credibility daily.
Alistair Watson wrote:
Pity about how the thread turned out though...
Has anyone actually read the article in Nat. Geo.?
runner301- The fold out in Nat. Geo is 8.5" X 28.5". Out of camera, one image cannot do that.
To everyone else-one of the last articles in Nat. Geo. is Inside Geographic, explains how they photographed the redwood.
"'The world is going to wonder how we got that picture,' says Nick Nichols about the foldout photograph in this month's issue (a two-by-six-foot fine art print is now available for purchase at PrintsNGS.com). 'It was a total team effort.' After a year of talks and planning, photographer Nichols, National Geographic Senior Editor Ken Geiger, and several additional team members figured out how to shoot the massive, 1,500-year-old redwood: They tethered a rope between two trees and from it hung a pulley system carrying three cameras. As the cameras descended, Nichols-on the ground nearby-shot pictures remotely from a laptop computer. It took three weeks of predawn attempts, but finally, in one morning, they captured the 84 images that make up the foldout. After the shoot Geiger spent more than 120 hours digitally stitching them together to create what Nichols now lovingly 'the collaborative composite'" (National Geographic, October 2009, p.128)
Most people on this forum would thing three weeks trying to get the shot is way too long, but Nat. Geo. is a huge company, which has the money to do that. I really do not see why people are voicing their opinions without even knowing the background facts. That video is just an ad for the October Issue.
EDIT: As for the apparent trolls, I did not see what they wrote. Only the large amount of people commenting on the troll, and not the OP. I get some peoples frustration over them, but just leave a mod a PM or something next time.
