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
Light is your medium and to shoot only direct, front light is like painting with nothing but black. Make sure your camera has a manual setting and start shooting into the sun (just make your exposure brighter). Or shoot only in shadowed light. Or sidelight. Point is, front light is boring. And often hard and contrasty. Take notice that not one of the images in this gallery was shot the way most people take their snapshots—with the sun at my back. —West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro
Get Technical Camera: Canon 5D Lens: EF24-105mm f/4.0L IS USM Shutter Speed + Aperture: 1/500 second, f/5.0, ISO 250
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