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The Slope
Working on terrain: position, right of way, distance and focal length, coordination.
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Standing in the Fall Line: Where a Photographer Can Legally and Safely Work on a Snow Slope
Click on the Mountain ran its tenth and final edition in March 2018, is not running, and cannot be taken part in — and this page, which organises nothing and sells nothing, sets out instead what the FIS Code of Conduct, Italy's D.Lgs. 40/2021 and the Swiss avalanche record oblige of a person who has stopped on a snow slope, is facing uphill, and cannot be seen over a convex roll.
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Distance Decides the Lens: Why a Forty-Degree Face Reads Flat at 200mm
Works the angular arithmetic of a forty-degree face and finds that the terrain sets the subject distance, the focal length follows from it, and the same slope photographed twenty degrees off the fall line draws at sixteen degrees.