Few places provide a better setting for testing your camera skills than Patagonia. Just back from an eight-day assignment in Chile, West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro shares his shooting secrets for first-rate adventure photography. Text and photograph by Steve Casimiro
Visual tension makes photos much more engaging, and small elements can go a long way toward creating that extra energy. In this case, what makes the photo is the fact that Jackson is squatting rather than standing—it breaks the symmetry of three people posed parallel and also creates a diagonal from Lisa to Jackson that draws your eye to the water. —West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro
Get Technical Camera: Canon 5D Lens: EF24-105mm f/4.0L IS USM Shutter Speed + Aperture: 1/80 second, f/8.0, ISO 100
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