Forest, when seen from inside, is not green. Browns and greys are dominant but colours are less important than light. Undergrowth is a very contrasted but little coloured landscape, which raises interest for black and white photography. You should choose a low contrast index film (0.5 to 0.7).

That was the technical part. From an artistic point of view, I try to see something else than stumps, branches and roots. You can find beasts, people, motionless or moving. Most of the time I do not see them on site. I just try to assemble shapes harmoniously by organizing sizes, masses, shades and lights in order to compose an acceptable picture. If the picture does not seem acceptable when I am ready to take it, I do not take it.

Generally, a non maintained, non planted forest, growing naturally, has somewhat balanced shapes, sizes of trunks and branches, shades and lights. The risk is to take a too well balanced picture, a lanscape you could see anywhere in the forest.

    

Those are trees. They all look alike.