The Olympic National Park is by far my all-around favorite place to shoot landscapes. Being a local and having spent most of my life exploring the Olympic Peninsula's secret treasures has given me the benefit of knowing how the area lives and breaths with the seasons and weather. The biggest challenge of shooting in the rainforests is finding spots that work well, even though everywhere you look is beautiful. Finding a unique light and composition can takes weeks or even years of persistence. It will take me the rest of my life to fully explore all of the possibilities.
This location is special in that there is a break in the forest canopy which allows the morning light to shine through mostly unobstructed. The original image is 14,000 pixels wide and when printed huge, shows a carpet of small flowers covering the forest floor throughout the photograph.
I captured this photo during the several weeks of peak chlorophyll greenness in the springtime. The rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula contain some of the densest levels of organic material of any place in the world.
Thanks for looking,
Johan
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10 commentsDespite the conditions you described I might be tempted to tone overall bright brights down just a wee bit, Johan...but it's personal taste really...
Strange thing, is that everywhere else I have ever posted my photos, I pretty much never had anyone say my images were too bright, and only sometimes too dark. Then when posting here on NPN recently, most of my images are getting feedback of being too bright. Could it be the black border around the image or do NPN members tend to like slightly darker and more "moody" images?
I've checked all of my photos on at least 4 different computers including my calibrated desktop and they look within spec to me. Although I do personally prefer a lighter tone and more uplifting mood to my images.