Winter trees are dreaming

[Susanne v. Schroeder]

Nikon D200
Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens
1/6 sec, f/32 at 62mm, ISO 100

I've always liked abstracts so recently I tried some with camera movements. These are trees in a snowy forest in northern Wisconsin. I increased the saturation and contrast and also applied a watercolor filter in Photoshop to give it a more painterly look. :cool:

[Mike Moats]

Hey Susanne, The two abstract I've seen of your are wonderful. I love the soft transistion from the light to dark and the tree formations are great.

[Fabs Forns]

Fantastic, Susanne, you got the colors mixed in to perfection with the right contrast and colors.

Congratulations on a fine image. you can go up to 800 pixels on the longest side, with a weight of 145 kb :)

[Susanne v. Schroeder]

Thank you! I had the hardest time with resizing my images. When I had the right size in photoshop it was too big when I tried uploading here and had to go back twice until it was about 130-140 Kb.
Susanne

[Fabs Forns]

Thank you! I had the hardest time with resizing my images. When I had the right size in photoshop it was too big when I tried uploading here and had to go back twice until it was about 130-140 Kb.
Susanne

Susanne, I have a short tutorial on how to size images for BPN in the DIgital Workflow Forum.

[Harold Stiver]

Wonderful. I'm going to have to give this a try, it is a very pleasing effect.

I would lessen the exposure on the bottom light areas but this is strictly a personal preference. The easy way to adjust it might be simply moving the white point lower.

Nicely done.