Intertwined

Gallery: FloraPosted October 3, 201086 views11 comments

This image provides a far more expansive view of the Monterrey Oak that I posted a couple of weeks ago. That tree has been haunting my dreams and I've yet to find it with perfect light. Some day ...

Here's an abstract that also came out of yesterday's shoot.

This was shot was an old 24-85mm lens that I have and rarely use. It was shot at 24mm, at f/8, -1EV with ISO 400. The conversion to B/W was done with NIK Silver EFEX and I used a slight vignette.

Thanks for taking the time to view and leave your comments and critiques.

Carol

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Peter Conway on October 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM

Carol, I really like the twisted gnarly tree. What a ton of character it has, I can see why you are haunted by it. I am probably not the best one to comment here because I rarely/never like high key BG's I think your idea of having light and shadow playing along the branches could be really interesting.

Maybe moonlight and a long exposure.

Peter

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Comment posted by Mark Stahlke on October 3, 2010 at 11:13 PM

Excellent! I stared at the larger version for a long time. Thanks.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on October 4, 2010 at 12:17 AM

Carol:
Very impressive pattern and texture. Would perhaps like a bit more contrast.

Shot at 24mm with 28-85mm lens??

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Comment posted by Brigitte Lorenz on October 4, 2010 at 2:12 AM

beautiful work, I really like this

Brigitte

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Comment posted by Mauro Pasquero on October 4, 2010 at 2:53 AM

Carol, Impressive work ! I like very much the texture of this image : the wide scale of greys gives really relief to the different branches against the flat sky. Congratulations.
Mauro

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on October 4, 2010 at 8:59 AM

Carol,

I think this is exceptional as posted. As a subjective thing, it's hard for me to resist contrast and darkness, so I might take this a little darker, if it were mine. Love the composition in it and the sinuousness in the main limbs. Striking and creative for my tastes. Superb conversion.

Pat

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Comment posted by scott lanz on October 4, 2010 at 10:06 AM

Excellent, Carol. Very nice comp and BW processing. The shapes are really outstanding. I also would like to see this darker and/or with more contrast just for comparison, but I don't know if it would improve this very nice image.

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Comment posted by Michael Lowe on October 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM

Awesome shot, Carol. This image has the potential to be processed in multiple ways and different interpretations.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on October 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM

Hi Carol

Being a tree lover " er " hugger

I appreciate tree shots. especially trees with branches like this.! every tree is a marvel in structure and form. and this one is no exception. The B/W conversion works very well depicting its beauty

Albert Darmo. Canada

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on October 7, 2010 at 6:53 PM

Again, a wonderful quality of being an old image about this. Intriguing subject and well presented.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on October 9, 2010 at 5:54 PM

Carol: Sorry I'm so tardy commenting on this. Very cool. Good vision, good photography. >=))>

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