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The Lotus Pond

by Jim Sabiston

Gallery: Man & NaturePosted August 30, 201044 views4 comments
The recently restored Lotus Pond, the highlight of the Walled Garden at Old Westbury Gardens.

I continue to refine my processing technique with the primary focus on tonal qualities in the final print. I'm getting very close to where I am trying to go with this process.

I've included a larger image in this post, as the detail shows much better in the larger print size with this image.

Thoughts and comments encouraged and welcome.

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Bret Edge on August 30, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Lovely tone and a perfect composition, Jim. I keep going back and forth on the vignetting. Part of me likes it, but another part would rather see this w/ no vignette. Not that one is right or wrong, just a personal preference. Looks like quite a lovely spot.
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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on August 30, 2010 at 11:46 PM
Lovely image - the tomes are grerat.
Not so sure about the vignetting - IMO, doesn't add anything.
Sandy r
Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Comment posted by Jim Sabiston on August 31, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Bret & Sandy,

Thank you for the honest appraisals. The negative vingnette is part of the process I've been working on to emulate certain turn-of-the-last-century photo techniques. It is my intention to do a series on the Gold Coast architecture of Long Island and this process will be used in that series. You can see the process come along in my recent posts. The toning has been the trickiest part, but I think I've finally got it where I want it.

That said, I thought it might be interesting to post the original, more traditionally processed image. I will do that tomorrow so you can see the tranformation in its entirety.

Thanks again.
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Comment posted by Jim Sabiston on August 31, 2010 at 9:40 PM
Here is the reprocessed image without the negative vignetting.

Registered on April 7, 2007, 134 Posts, 443 Comments