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Photo posted by Lon Overacker in the Landscape gallery on 11/27/17 at 6:36 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 Igor Doncov on 11/27/17 at 7:44 pm EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
The b&w choice was a good one. It looks as though it's early morning and the rays are burning through the mist. There's no hint that this is smoke except for the title. The rays in the large version look wonderful.
BTW, did you have to straighten out the trees using photoshop's perspective tools. The reason I ask is because I shot some a while ago at 24mm and the trees on either side are bent toward the center. It's not a bad effect but I want to straighten them out.
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Comment posted by Dan Kearl on 11/27/17 at 8:14 pm EST
Registered on 09/02/13, 209 Posts, 1514 Comments
Well it works very well in B & W. I thought you caught some nice rays through the fog from the thumbnail.
I would not have really known it was smoke unless mentioned. I think if you tweaked the clarity a bit, you could smooth it out
a bit more for a even more "fog" like look if you chose to.
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 11/27/17 at 9:31 pm EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
This turned out really nice, I like it a lot. Good choice on the B&W. No suggestions here.
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Anil Rao on 11/28/17 at 05:49 am EST
Registered on 11/15/03, 234 Posts, 4923 Comments
A beautiful landscape image. Inspiring and totally captivating.
I wouldn't have have guessed it was smoke. Looks so much like fog.
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Anil Rao
Santa Clara, California
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Comment posted by Richard Teller on 11/28/17 at 07:54 am EST
Registered on 08/23/10, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments
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My first response was' "I want to be there." The b&w makes this look like some early morning fog still hanging over a calm and quit forest. A very peaceful image. The b&w works really well with this image. It almost gives it a mysterious feeling.
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Richard Teller
Scottsbluff, NE
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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 Mark Seaver on 11/28/17 at 11:49 am EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
Love the crepuscular rays here, Lon. Even if it is smoke, this has a fine early/late light feeling where going b&w lets the lighting dominate the view.
As an aside, I believe that the lack of comments is the fastest way to drive down membership and participation.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
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Comment posted by Craig Moreau on 11/28/17 at 1:19 pm EST
Registered on 04/21/15, 64 Posts, 584 Comments
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Lon, excellent use of the smoke and sun rays to great effect. I like all the varied thickness of smoke, obscuring and revealing things at different levels. I like the dark and light halves of the image as well. Great choice to go with B&W.
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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on 11/28/17 at 1:31 pm EST
Registered on 09/17/10, 304 Posts, 3507 Comments
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Great atmospherics, does look like mist. Other than a slight crop of the left (the tree far left), looks great as is. A slight crop might focus the interest a bit more to the right. Not sure if possible, but more water / reflection would be wonderful too but I suspect you would have done it if it was present. Has a feel of the great painters that portrayed the Yosemite area. I am assuming this is Yosemite.
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Comment posted by gary phillips on 11/29/17 at 01:54 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
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What really works for me in this presentation is the dark stillness of the water leading to the rays in the smoke (fog). Perfect b/w material. This has a wonderful quiet beauty that is not easy to find and even harder to capture. Very nice, Lon, I love it.
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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on 11/29/17 at 10:49 am EST
Registered on 02/01/04, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments
Lon, This made such a wonderful b&w image. I love looking at the large version...wonderful work!
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.
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Comment posted by Doug Koepsel on 11/29/17 at 11:02 am EST
Registered on 04/01/10, 196 Posts, 1592 Comments
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The rays in the smoke show nicely. The bright spot in the UL might be eliminated. This works well in B&W to me.
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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on 11/29/17 at 5:56 pm EST
Registered on 10/26/09, 399 Posts, 2789 Comments
Well that looks pretty damn good to me. Very cool
aF
And yes, the forum has definitely slowed down over the last few years. Alas :/
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Comment posted by Dave Harwood on 11/30/17 at 09:54 am EST
Registered on 02/04/15, 29 Posts, 29 Comments
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Lon, This is gorgeous, a rare moment of light made visible. Beautiful composition as well in ways immediately apparent. You chose a soft focus effect. Part of me wonders what the same scene and moment would look like were the landscape to be Ansel Adams sharp? The question occurs because this capture is that good! Dave
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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on 12/14/17 at 09:02 am EST
Registered on 09/27/06, 636 Posts, 10682 Comments
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Have to say this still is a really terrific bnw image Lon.
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This was in the early afternoon after Kyle and I had met up with Harley and had established our campsites - well me anyway, I'm the only one tenting it. So the three of us headed out with Maggie (Harley's girl...) to hit the loop and look for opportunities. Harley was the first to spot the smoke and motioned for me to pull over. Harley posted a great image of beams through the pines and smoke of the nearby controlled burn. I took a broader view of the river scene and captured this. Of course it was captured in color and honestly it looked too much like smoke, the rays not good in the color version. I thought the b&w presentation worked better.
