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Light in the canyonlands
Steve Kossackis fascinated by light and colour. This page contains a portfolio of images taken on a shoot inCanyonlands and Arches National Parksin the winter of 2000. A broader gallery of Steve's work can also be seenhere.
Nature's Buffet‚ Canyonlands N.P., 2000
It's always been color that first attracts me. Next, it's the light that sets the boundaries of the composition. Lastly it's foreground. Foreground is the last‚ but I think one of the main ingredients. To give any composition depth it must have detail. The detail is in the foreground.
The question for me is how much detail. All or part of the foreground? Limbs in or partly out? In the light or out? Most importantly, how close? Do I use the foreground as the main subject or move back and balance it with the wider view? In this shot ofBuck CanyoninCanyonlands National ParkI first saw the foreground and it became the main subject. After all, I see color first. 
After some thought I began to see it a...

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