Autumn color
OK -- time to break up this Halloween thing!! (It's almost midnight on the east coast). We were in TN and NC about a week ago, and I tried for some autumn color. It was a bad year and the light was mostly gray, so I just got a few. Played with this one in Simplify, Glamour Glow and Gaussian Blur, with a lot of masking.
This is the forest where The Hunger Games was filmed, and the friends who showed us around encountered some of their friends who were scouting for bear hunting.
I really like the play of light across this lovely fall color. I think you used the diffusion perfectly, applying it to just the right areas of the image. Nice painterly look and mood. Love the back story too!
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Gorgeous!!!
It could be spooky... I see a Bigfoot leg on the very left behind a tree.... haha
okay must have sleep obviously.
Glad you got some images and sounds like you had a blast.
Very nice use of filters. I like the diffused soft look and the fall colors against the green leaves makes a nice contrast. Where is that forest where they made the movie?
Thanks everyone! This is the Pisgah National Forest, NE of Asheville.
Hi, Diane, you know I'm a sucker for diffusion and I think it's perfectly done in this image. Beautiful, subtle fall colors. Sorry about all the gray weather.
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This is beautifully done Diane and would not change a thing. I think autumn color was a little disappointing all around this year. Up here in Ontario it seemed to me that the colors were quite muted.
This is very well seen and processed. Sometimes grayish light can enhance colors as well as creating a softness. I think you could not have created a more beautiful image no matter what the light! Wonderful composition with the vertical trunks of the trees interwoven with the diagonal planes of the leaves.
Grey days can bring out the beautiful colors in fall trees, as seen in this image. I fear I find the changes between blur and sharper areas a bit unsettling in this image--don't know why. The blurred triangle in lower left corner disturbs me. Wonderful colors here, and good composition. I find forests very difficult to photography satisfactorily, but you succeeded.
Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. The triangle bothers me, too. I could crop from the left but kind of like the tree trunks anchoring that side, especially since there is no FG. I was standing on the edge of a precipice and aiming more to the right the scene was less interesting. I was hoping I could plant a bush in that corner but haven't succeeded yet.
I should do another version without the OOTB stuff, maybe just a touch of Glamour Glow. It's hard to find a forest scene that isn't too busy and has a good center of interest.
I completely agree with the challenge of photographing a forest scene. You did a great job!Originally Posted by Diane Miller
I'm attaching a version of your image in which I cloned that corner (I didn't find a bush either). :-) I could have done a better job. Just an idea.
Yes, that works! I think I'd darken the lighter area to the left of the base of the tree to make the trunk outline more ambiguous there. I'll try that approach -- thanks. Maybe I can find a leafy branch to toss in down there, too. With this cartoon approach it might not look too phony.
I've gotten way behind in processing; I get things 90% done and don't get back to finishing them.
But there's a saying about 90% done -- I doubt she made it up, but our older daughter was in the midst of a very long project restoring a 1932 antique airplane and at one point she characterized it as 90% done and 90% to go. (Which proved to be the case, but it finally got done.)
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