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Forest is arguably one of Aftercup's best, league-highest series so far, with brilliant visuals and text surrounds. In the last two parts of the series, we will talk a little about how and why this series was actually made. The ninth part will focus more on on-site matters, while the tenth will present post-production and our experiences.
In the first part of our series, we already tangentially mentioned that Forest was based on a very old school project, the purpose of which was primarily to study the living world. Basically, the project made it to several competitions, and then it became a local elementary school curriculum. The Aftercup Forest series now worked from these existing documents - i.e. we knew exactly what, when and where to look for.
The fauna of the examined area was much more diverse years ago, and to be honest, we expected to be able to show many more interesting things (that's why we scheduled the photo shoots for early autumn). There was, for example, a place called "Függőkert" in the heart of the forest, where you could find all kinds of wild fruits. Unfortunately, we saw very little of this last fall.
The tours that we did in a total of 4 different locations in 3+1 days were an indispensable part of the Forest. By the way, the earlier, winter part of the series was recorded in a completely different location than the parts showing the green landscape. All of this meant a total of approximately 20 kilometers of walking, which does not sound too much in three days, but the high humidity typical at the time was not very favorable for the production of the series. On the first of the three days, we actually took photos from morning to afternoon.
Today, you don't need professional equipment to take amazing pictures - most of the series could actually have been taken with a single phone.
The visual world of Forest was presented to our readers by a simple Samsung Galaxy A50 phone and a Polaroid is829 hand-held camera - of course after a lot of post-production.
Macro photos like this were taken with the phone, while the larger spaces and distant pictures (mainly due to the optical zoom) were taken with the camera.
