{"id":33931,"date":"2021-07-10T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=33931"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:44:57","slug":"photograph-a-redwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/photograph-a-redwood\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Photograph a Redwood Tree — From Duff to Overstory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to photograph a redwood tree? This is all that my modest point and shoot could capture of these two trees at Muir Woods. Photos by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I played hooky from my blog yesterday.<\/p>\n

Instead of sitting down at my desk to write, I headed off for a day amidst the redwood trees of Muir Woods, accompanied by my hiking buddy and hundreds of other nature-starved pandemic survivors.<\/p>\n

The ancient beings<\/a> of Muir Woods — some are 800 and 1000 years old — are huge.<\/p>\n

I tried to take a picture of one of them, then another, and another. It couldn’t be done.<\/p>\n

Not that the coastal redwoods of Muir Woods are camera shy. Anything but. They’ll stand stock still, right in front of you, massive, unmoving and totally photogenic.<\/p>\n

But there’s no way to squeeze the vast height — 250 feet in some cases — of one of these trees into the lens of a modest little point and shoot like mine.<\/p>\n

So, how to photograph a redwood tree and get the whole thing into the picture — from bottom to top, duff to overstory?<\/p>\n

You make a video, of course. Here’s mine.<\/p>\n