The Freeze Over

[Dwayne Oakes]

Thanks for taking a look !

Take care,
Dwayne Oakes

 

[janet Smith]

Love it Dwayne! lovely light on the reeds in the foreground through to the heavy shadow behind, the contrast between the dead/bare tree trunks behind and the soft greens in the foreground really make it work - very nice.

BTW I was walking/photographing in a wooded area a few days ago with a natural arch of branches around me, made me think of your shots..... thanks for sharing.

 

[Rachel Foster]

How did you get the muted yet sharp effect? I'm guessing a slow shutter speed on tripod, but what aperture?

 

[Wade Skinner]

How did you get the muted yet sharp effect? I'm guessing a slow shutter speed on tripod, but what aperture?

I'm pretty sure it's a step in the HDR direction Rachel.

 

[Rachel Foster]

Ah, I need to learn about that.

 

[Mike Shimwell]

I'm pretty sure it's a step in the HDR direction Rachel.

Not quite, Dwayne explained about it in another post (the Deer one?). He uses a duplicate layer blended in multiply mode after lightening with levels and guassian blurring the layer. Opacity cna be varied to manage the intensity of the effect.

Another nice picture Dwayne, I'm ioncreasingly taken by your stark trees. The contrast with the foreground reeds is good.

Mike

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Thank you very much for the kind words everyone ! Mike is right, that is exactly how I get
the Orton-effect.

Take care,
Dwayne Oakes

 

[charlie chipman]

Ah, I need to learn about that.

As Dwayne mentioned it is the orton effect, there are quite a few tutorials on how to do it scattered across the web, this is one of them.

http://pcin.net/update/2006/11/01/the-orton-effect-digital-photography-tip-of-the-week/

 

[Asher Kelman]

As Dwayne mentioned it is the orton effect, there are quite a few tutorials on how to do it scattered across the web, this is one of them.

http://pcin.net/update/2006/11/01/the-orton-effect-digital-photography-tip-of-the-week/

Charlie,

I must say, when I first heard of the Orton effect someone was using it in portraits and I thought it was a superficial manipulation and became even irrationally negative to what I thought was a fashion, (like the seemingly necessary requirement to always show moving water as soft and creamy. "What happened to other ideas?", I'd ask myself!

Here, however, Dwayne has consistently used this approach in a way that seems to belong to the tranquility and presence of his pastoral and magical forrest light scenes. This application has turned my ideas on the Orton effect to some appreciation of it as a wonderful tool when used in the matching setting. Also Here it's used at the right intensity.

I like it when my own ideas are turned on their head and I get to appreciate other folks work.

Asher

 

[charlie chipman]

Funny Asher, my thoughts on the orton effect were the opposite. When I first saw it used it was on landscapes/flower/nature stuff and I thought it was so cool. Of course I had to use the process myself. Then I grew to dislike the effect simply because I saw it used to often and grew to seeing it as to manufactured for lack of better description, much like hdr.

Now I like it in certain situation if it is very subtle but don't use it myself. The above picture is a good example though I would reduce the opacity a bit more..... personal preference of course.

What I like most about the orton effect is that when I first discovered it and followed the tutorials it gave me some understanding about layers and blend modes that I had not previously known. Sometimes I still use variations of the orton effect but just leave out the blur step of the process.