Robert Watcher
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Stunningly beautiful morning - stark trees loaded with fluffy snow against a soft blue sky. My artistic interpretations.
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Snow topped trees
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
In this image. You have presented it as all white which is very dramatic. However, in looking closely at the file, there’s a lot of interesting dete in the branches of the tree they I expect will be obvious if you print it large.
On this small jpg, that wonderful detail is lost but it’s still amazing!
Asher
Robert Watcher
Well-known member
Thanks Asher. This image is an artistic expression. I don’t want detail in the image - just a soft fluffy ball of cotton / soft white lambs wool appearance with muted sky tones. That was the essence of how I felt when I saw the large forest of trees off in the distance across a field, while driving through the countryside this morning.
The highlights have been brought down a little and shadows brought up to soften them for the most part. A heavy Gaussian blur over the whole image creates the mood and a linear lens blur not affecting the tree line, smears most of the sky and foreground snow. My wife sent a message after she saw it, that she loves it —— and so I printed out an 11x17 for above the coffee counter in our kitchen.
The highlights have been brought down a little and shadows brought up to soften them for the most part. A heavy Gaussian blur over the whole image creates the mood and a linear lens blur not affecting the tree line, smears most of the sky and foreground snow. My wife sent a message after she saw it, that she loves it —— and so I printed out an 11x17 for above the coffee counter in our kitchen.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Wonderful!
I like that you carve the image and don’t accept what the little men inside the camera thought was a great uniformly recorded image.
I believe it’s highly unlikely that a camera engineer can figure out what we find best expresses our feelings and the latter is the whole point of artistic photography!
Asher