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Photo posted by Lon Overacker in the Landscape gallery on 12/12/17 at 10:13 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 SandyRichardsBrown on 12/12/17 at 11:42 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/03, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Love the lines and textures here, and the B&W treatment.
Sandy
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Sandy Richards-Brown, NPN #0367
Brookings, Oregon (summer/fall) and Sedona, Arizona (winter/spring)
PNW and RMNP Regional Member
NATURE'S MAJESTY IMAGING
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"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings."
- Cecil F. Alexander, Hymns for Little Children, 1848, Ireland |
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 12/13/17 at 07:22 am EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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I am quite happy your focus stack failed. I love this one. The shallow dof works great. Processing looks spot-on. Excellent!
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 12/13/17 at 08:58 am EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Lon, the sharp silvery charred stands out very well against the oof black char. The enough texture in the oof area to make clear that this is the same stump, which is a good addition. I'm particularly attracted to what looks like a scorched pine needle embedded in the side of the sharp section.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
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Comment posted by Craig Moreau on 12/13/17 at 10:26 am EST
Registered on 04/21/15, 64 Posts, 584 Comments
Lon, I really like the way this worked out with the interior way OOF. It puts all the emphasis on the left side. Had this worked out as a focus stack, I think it would have more of an optical illusion look, like those tree images you had posted a while back, where you don't know what's in front or behind. Those images are very interesting, but I really like this too.
I like the variations in the scale of the "squares" of char, and there is a very interesting shape to the edge of the trunk.
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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on 12/13/17 at 11:19 am EST
Registered on 01/17/04, 705 Posts, 3594 Comments
Hi Lon,
Very 3D with lots of shadow and highlight depth. The shallow DOF made a nice comp for this scene. Well done..................Jim
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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on 12/13/17 at 11:57 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments
The textures and subtle color are wonderful. At first I was a little bit on the fence with the out of focus area. While it does not dominate the image, it is still a significant portion of it. Now, this is just a thought, but you might consider a crop from the top to the top of that sloping bit of char, and a bit off the right side.
The processing is right on, and this is a well-crafted image!
--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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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on 12/14/17 at 11:25 am EST
Registered on 02/25/06, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments
Lon, interesting how neat this came out after reading your detailed outline here. I think we've all had some attempts at that "layered" look to a given scene. Most come out being acceptable but not all reach even that level either. This comes away with a very different appeal in the end. I'd say the overall dof works perfectly for this chosen subject. Very nice work......
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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 Michael Lowe on 12/14/17 at 12:41 pm EST
Registered on 02/11/04, 777 Posts, 5252 Comments
I wish I had a "failure" this good. My failures are just that-failures.
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Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on 12/14/17 at 4:39 pm EST
Registered on 11/11/11, 404 Posts, 1639 Comments
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This works extremely well as presented and I wouldn't call it a failure at all. I wish my "failures" looked half as good! I like the slight angle of the in focus portion, and the blurred background suggests the other side of the hollowed out log but doesn't give it as much definition. The texture and light on the front portion are wonderful. My favorite of these that you did was the colorful one some weeks ago, but this is a close second.
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