Shot: The Learning Curve

Although I take photographs, I don’t consider myself a photographer. So when I got the opportunity to do a story on a Singletrack Colorado tour back in 2013, I was more than a bit sceptical as to what imagery I could come up with using my limited knowledge and camera operating skills. I was given a crash course in SLR buttonry and one sage piece of advice: “get shit in front”. That meant to shoot past or through an object like a leaf or rock or something, to give some depth of field and frame a part of the image. I’ve used it a lot since, and it’s good advice (thanks Caleb).

This shot however has a distinct lack of shit in front, but a plethora of it behind. When you’re gifted with a landscape as stunningly unusual as that found around Moab, Utah, you can’t really go too wrong. When we arrived at this section of the Amasa Back trail with its nasty rock ledge drop, I knew there was a chance for a pretty expansive backdrop to the trail feature. After Carl and Mike rolled it a few times for me to get my shit together, I forewent the shit in front and was pretty happy with the result.

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