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Photo posted by Igor Doncov in the Landscape gallery on 03/17/16 at 8:33 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
Post last edited by Jim Erhardt on 03/25/16 at 5:46 pm EST
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Comment posted by Dave Dillemuth on 03/17/16 at 10:47 pm EST
Registered on 12/10/15, 104 Posts, 1112 Comments
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It looks cold! This is an excellent image. Comp works well and I love the monochromatic feel with just a hint of color coming through in the grasses.
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Dave Dillemuth
Santa Barbara, California
davedillemuthphotography.smugmug.com
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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on 03/18/16 at 06:33 am EST
Registered on 09/27/06, 636 Posts, 10682 Comments
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Love the stark mood. The composition works very well for me.
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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on 03/18/16 at 09:40 am EST
Registered on 05/18/07, 1108 Posts, 7647 Comments
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Excellent variety of murky tones, and a real feeling of desolation with that twig littered foreground and the bare trees fading into the distance. A very evocative image !!
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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on 03/18/16 at 09:42 am EST
Registered on 02/01/04, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments
I really like this image, Igor. You really captured a mood here that works so well. Excellent comp too!
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
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Comment posted by Jim Jirka on 03/18/16 at 09:50 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 254 Posts, 1620 Comments
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This image has a nice range of tones and makes me feel like I am standing there witnessing it.
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Jim Jirka
Auburn, Washington
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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on 03/18/16 at 10:38 am EST
Registered on 04/10/05, 753 Posts, 21216 Comments
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This is a wonderful capture Igor. Composition is superb, bringing out the best in what the terrain had to offer. Better than seeing this, I really feel it. Great work.
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Bill Chambers
Gulf Breeze, Florida
Please visit Enchanted Light Photography
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” - Ansel Adams |
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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on 03/18/16 at 12:21 pm EST
Registered on 09/30/12, 116 Posts, 2257 Comments
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I don't know how you pulled it off, but this looks so painterly! I even checked if you posted it in the "photo art" gallery to see if you used any effect. This is simply great Igor, no other words for it. The feeling, the strong story captured in this photo, it's all perfect. A winner! It reminds me of the Norwegian painter Kittelsen.
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 03/18/16 at 12:32 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Igor,
I must say, I think this is one of your BEST! This is simply fantastic. I agree with Roel that this does have a painterly look, but I don't get any impression of any "effects." It's the subtle quality of light here that is so wonderful. And after that, it's also the color - as subtle as that is; the yellow of the grasses really adds to this. I'm so glad you didn't go b&w with this.
As much as I love this and am impressed with, I can't withhold my only suggestion. On the right, there are a few long lines that make me think they're tire tracks; obscured a bit by the snow, so that's good. I was just thinking that a few strategic pops of the clone/healing brush to break up the length of a couple of the lines to obscure the tracks even more. But that's just me. I certainly would NOT crop in from the right. I like the tree on the far right framing this wonderful scene.
Lon
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Comment posted by Elizabeth Holbrook on 03/18/16 at 12:40 pm EST
Registered on 05/06/15, 43 Posts, 221 Comments
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Beautiful tones throughout. Nice capture.
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Elizabeth Holbrook
Douglasville,GA
Every day is a new adventure.
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 03/18/16 at 8:34 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
Well I must've done something right on this one because I've gotten comments from new, to me, people. The problem is that I'm not sure what I did different from before. Don't know how to continue the 'streak'.
Thank you for the kind words.
Roel, I looked up Kittelsen and was glad to find out he wasn't the painter that did 'The Scream'.
Lon, thank you for bringing the tracks to my attention. I didn't see them. The snow probably accentuated them after a while because they weren't evident at the start. These tracks are almost certainly made by fire trucks that tried to put out the forest fire. It should be simple to clone them out to a degree that they are no longer recognizable.
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"If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person" - Jay Maisel. |
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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on 03/18/16 at 9:31 pm EST
Registered on 09/17/10, 304 Posts, 3507 Comments
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Igor- I find the processing and colors superb.The hint of brown through the BW. What came to mind to me in this image was concentration camp survivors images standing huddled together during those dark days. A timelessness to it.
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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on 03/19/16 at 02:35 am EST
Registered on 09/30/12, 116 Posts, 2257 Comments
Came back to look at it again today, and I like it even more this time. You really hit the jackpot here Igor!
It certainly is frustrating when you take a photo and later on no longer remember how you obtained a certain effect/feeling. But that is also a good thing I think, it means you take pictures guided by feelings and instincts (in other words, the creative way), and not by doing dry calculations and following guidelines. That's when photography probably is at its best!
Kittelsen is a lesser know painter, but I really like him. Loads of atmosphere in his paintings, something you achieved here as well, which is why I made the comparison.
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 03/19/16 at 05:48 am EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
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The best advice I could give a friend of mine on how to improve her photography was that good images come from the gut, not the brain.
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"If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person" - Jay Maisel. |
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 03/19/16 at 4:41 pm EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Wow, this is outstanding!!!!!! So understated, yet so compelling. It hits hard. I love this!
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by gary phillips on 03/20/16 at 01:32 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
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I've been away for awhile, Igor, but wanted to comment on this very special image. Certainly one of your very best. Packed with a subtle emotion and just a hint of color. Excellent in every way. It conveys a dreary beauty and simplicity that is really hard to do. I love it. Congratulation and by all means keep wondering around out there looking for these gems.
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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on 03/21/16 at 7:47 pm EST
Registered on 01/04/09, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments
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A classic B&W Igor. A somber mood bt wonderful composition.
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Comment posted by John Williams on 03/21/16 at 10:14 pm EST
Registered on 09/06/07, 221 Posts, 5985 Comments
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The lack of anything but a subtle hint of color adds a lonely, austere feeling to the scene that works well with the misty background. The comp works well.
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John Williams
www.tranquilviews.com
Battle Ground, WA |
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I often have wandered in deep contemplation, It seems that the mind runs wild when you're all alone. -John Denver
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Comment posted by Vance Gese on 03/27/16 at 6:08 pm EST
Registered on 11/13/08, 298 Posts, 6629 Comments
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Exquisite image, Igor. Incredible mood, one I would characterize as elegant desolation. Wonderful use of muted colors, and your composition is exquisite. The beauty you have captured gives hope to this fire-ravaged forest. Congratulations on the editor's pick.
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Vance Gese
Vance Gese Photography
Quilcene, Washington |
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I was merely there, a small, puny, awestruck man,
praising Almighty God, with camera in hand.
Make a few images, well.
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 03/27/16 at 9:13 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Congrats on the EP Igor! Well deserved.
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 03/28/16 at 3:25 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
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"If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person" - Jay Maisel. |
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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on 03/30/16 at 6:07 pm EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments
A very lovely, understated, yet compelling image, Igor.
Congratulations on the EP!
--P
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Preston Birdwell
Columbia, California, USA
NPN 429 | California Nature Photographers (CANP) Moderator | 'NPN Discussion' Moderator
“If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse, well, that comes a little cheaper" Author Unknown |
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