Principles to show the hidden elegance of this planet while creating with artistic freedom! With @loaks.photography / "Capturing the beautiful shapes and colors of nature is something I started doing when I was 18, and since then, I have found these principles to be helpful with my photography: 1) Technically, it is important to me that nothing is overexposed or underexposed. Although I like to experiment with open aperture, I want my images to be sharp from front to back. So I often stack images for absolute depth of field and get very close to foreground objects. 2) I prefer all pastel tones and the combination of snow or ice with evening or morning red. Thus, I prioritize winter images or go far up in the mountains during summer to find the eternal ice/glacier. 3) I also avoid green tones to be consistent with my style. So stones instead of grass or plants as foreground, and thus keep the green part low. Then I try to shoot either daytime pictures or early during the golden hour because the colors harmonize better. As a trained printing technologist, the many years of color matching with customers in the printing industry have made my eye very sensitive to nuances. On the one hand, I know the color theory very well and try to incorporate those aspects that do not restrict me too much in creating with artistic freedom when processing images. 4) Generally speaking, if you know the basic knowledge of photography and how to best edit your photos, then the basic requirements are in place to achieve beautiful images. 5) Some photographers are more successful due to the quantity and exclusivity of the photos and the ability to present these pictures in the right place and to win people over with suitable stories. 6) Charisma also plays a role. However, you often have to put up with effort, strain, and patience to separate your work from the crowd. Photographers who make the seemingly invisible visible impress me. When the hidden elegance of this planet is noticeable in a frame, and there are rare and brief moments of incredible beauty, I feel inspired." You can read the original article with @loaks.photography by visiting the link in the bio! 🎇