My name is David Balcells and I work as a Chemistry Researcher at the University of Oslo (Norway). Besides science, photography is my big passion. After reading a few inspirational books, like Chris Weston’s Nature Photography, I found the perfect school in my hometown’s backyard: the mountain of Montserrat (Catalunya, Spain). In this post I want to share with you 7 useful tips that I learned in this unique location.
Use perspective and scale. They introduce a strong 3D-character. For this picture, I carefully placed the tripod in the SW corner of La Roca Foradada (meaning “The Pierced Rock”, a popular rock feature of Montserrat) to get the best perspective. I introduced scale and extra depth by placing myself on the opposite corner and waited for the sunrise to finally shoot at f/16 with my favorite Tokina f/2.8 wide-angle set at 16mm.
