Steve Foss
01-08-2008, 02:42 PM
This may perhaps belong more in a photo art category, but it also a landscape.
I was hauling butt to get to a morning shooting spot when I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw the sun just beginning to peek over a ridge behind me. The ridge was loaded with spruce and balsam, and even though it was summer, the dew on the branches was mixed with frost, and the sun strongly backlit the scene.
I stuck the camera and Canon 100-400 out the truck's sliding rear window and handheld a bunch of frames, knowing I liked the look. I didn't know what I'd do with them then, but once I got home and had one on the screen, I noticed how hot the highlights on the outer trees were but that that inner trees were still represented in ghostly way.
So I desaturated and played with levels until I achieved this affect. It's sold well as a print to people who like this sort of thing.
I'm fielding suggestions on how to make it better in pp. Some darker vignetting might be an option to make the other three corners more like the bottom right corner. There are a few errant little spots of frost highlighted here and there and perhaps some other cleanups that might be done, but what do you all think? Leave it or work it some more?
I was hauling butt to get to a morning shooting spot when I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw the sun just beginning to peek over a ridge behind me. The ridge was loaded with spruce and balsam, and even though it was summer, the dew on the branches was mixed with frost, and the sun strongly backlit the scene.
I stuck the camera and Canon 100-400 out the truck's sliding rear window and handheld a bunch of frames, knowing I liked the look. I didn't know what I'd do with them then, but once I got home and had one on the screen, I noticed how hot the highlights on the outer trees were but that that inner trees were still represented in ghostly way.
So I desaturated and played with levels until I achieved this affect. It's sold well as a print to people who like this sort of thing.
I'm fielding suggestions on how to make it better in pp. Some darker vignetting might be an option to make the other three corners more like the bottom right corner. There are a few errant little spots of frost highlighted here and there and perhaps some other cleanups that might be done, but what do you all think? Leave it or work it some more?