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Photo posted by Lon Overacker in the Landscape gallery on 10/01/17 at 3:22 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
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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 Mark Seaver on 10/01/17 at 11:28 pm EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Another fine study in color, shape, and texture, Lon. That "in your face" knot that is the focal point has me thinking of a crazed chipmunk staring at me or some of Brian Froud's creatures.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on 10/02/17 at 09:19 am EST
Registered on 02/25/06, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments
Lon, this is as good as it gets with regard to the DOF on these beasts. Almost totally impossible with single takes, unless the curvature is not extreme or the POF is just on the middle surface. The number in the stack provides another feature looking at the smaller image here and that is really noticing the curvature and still having most all in very near perfect focus. Overall image color, sat, contrast are dead on.......very nice IMO......
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Paul Breitkreuz
Corona, California
Trailimages.com
NPN 2326
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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Comment posted by Mattia Oliviero on 10/02/17 at 09:35 am EST
Registered on 08/24/16, 43 Posts, 254 Comments
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Great job with the focus stacking technique, Lon. It is not easy due to the difficulties you highlighted. I do find the detail very interesting even though I am not totally sure about the result. I do not know if it is due to the light or the composition but still I see some potential not fully exploited. Maybe a macro image with bigger details would have been a better solution. Later I will take a look again and hopefully give you more precise feedbacks.
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Mattia Oliviero
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 10/02/17 at 12:35 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Thanks for the comments so far!
@Mattia, thank you as well. I totally agree with you about the composition. While it may be ok as presented, I agree and think the subject deserves a much tighter and intimate crop. this is probably the widest view of a tree trunk I've captured. I may crop, but the real fix is a better comp in the field to begin with! Thanks!
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 Harley Goldman on 10/02/17 at 1:02 pm EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Real nice detail portrait. I have two thoughts. First, I would boost the vibrance a big chunk. It looks a little flat to my eye. Second, I would try a crop off the top to just above the little knot to the left and above the big knot. I think the presentation is trying to showcase too much and makes for a wandering eye. I don't think this is circular file material. I like it, as you seem to suggest in your second post here.
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Rudy Ruberti on 10/02/17 at 10:55 pm EST
Registered on 10/28/08, 179 Posts, 1875 Comments
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Nice colors and texture. Not too sure about the centered placement of the knot and I do agree with Harley, but overall I like this.
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Rudy Ruberti
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Comment posted by Richard Teller on 10/03/17 at 7:28 pm EST
Registered on 08/23/10, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments
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You are able to take mundane things and make interesting images out of them. I like the texture, color and the large knot at the top gives a spot for the eye to focus on.
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Richard Teller
Scottsbluff, NE
teller-nature-photography.redframe.com |
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The mountains and the seashore scream at you, but the prairie whispers and you have to stop and listen.
Don't shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like. David Alan Harvey |
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 10/03/17 at 7:49 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
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It took me a while to figure out how I feel about this image but now I'm ready. On the surface it's a very realistic image with very natural colors. What's different about it from most bark images is it lacks drama of swirlies and sharp angles. It has a calm, balanced sense to it. Something you could meditate to. But as you study it more you notice all those smooth bumps and nodules and you start to think how it would be to run your hands across that smooth surface and feel them. So in a way it's a sensuous image in the pure sense of the word. I wouldn't crop anything at this point. It's a question of what you were going for when you made this image. Cropping would be a search for a different meaning to it. And that's fine if you're tired of your original intent.
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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 gary phillips on 10/04/17 at 12:22 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
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I really like this Lon. I made my living and most of my retirement from my passion of lodgepole. Pretty much a life long association you might say. I built rustic furniture, refined the process so that it was Fine Lodgepole Furniture, and developed a company that specialized in rustic pool tables. This is a really refined view that I have felt with my hands thousands of times. Very, very nice. Thank you.
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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on 10/04/17 at 5:22 pm EST
Registered on 02/01/04, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments
Love this!! This is wonderful work, Lon. The colors, textures and detail through are just fantastic. Nice work with the focus stacking on this one. 
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.
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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on 10/05/17 at 2:09 pm EST
Registered on 04/10/05, 753 Posts, 21216 Comments
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Sweet shot, Lon. The textures are so nice, probably because of the focus stacking, and the silver and brown coloration look so smooth. One of the better shots of tree trunks.
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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 Lucy VanSwearingen on 10/05/17 at 4:14 pm EST
Registered on 05/23/09, 800 Posts, 2042 Comments
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Love the interplay of light, curves and texture. Very nice!
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Lucy VanSwearingen
Richmond, TX
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~ Sir Winston Churchill |
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Comment posted by Bill Fach on 10/07/17 at 07:25 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments
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Lon: The larger version MUST be viewed. Wonderful textures and color palette and edge to edge sharpness. Well seen and superbly composed and captured. >=))>
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Bill Fach
Soli Deo Gloria
www.sdgimages.com
Houston, Texas
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 10/07/17 at 4:27 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions! I agree this could be bumped in color and also that there are actually any number of crops that show more of the detail. I've played with several and there are certainly alternates worth exploring.
Igor and Gary - thanks for bringing up this other dimension and your descriptions of actually feeling the bark. I'm glad you mention, because I find myself doing that on many occasions - especially for a tree like this where the barks is smooth and full of little undulations and curves. On the flip side, I can confirm doing this on the charred image produces exactly what you think it might!
Thanks again! I wasn't sure how this one would go over.
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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