through the fog

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 21, 2013179 views13 comments

This is the start of a small serie about trees in the winter. Actually I had totally different plans on that morning but once again the weather didn't want to corporate. I think this was my luck. This one was taken just after sunrise on a cold land foggy winter morning in the swiss Jura mountain of Solothurn.I have another one where the tree is even more isolated.

D700, 24-70/f2.8, f8, 1/25sec, iso160

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Hamed Musharbak on March 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM

very nice my friend, i like the simplicity in this shot

works great in a large print

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on March 21, 2013 at 3:30 PM

Gorgeous Bill. Beautiful composition and the foggy BG really makes the tree "pop". I'm glad you left this in color because the subtle browns of the tree are wonderful.

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Comment posted by Nick Palmieri on March 21, 2013 at 4:03 PM

I think the BG compliments the tree very well. Very nice job on this one.

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Comment posted by John&Patty Benway on March 21, 2013 at 4:04 PM

Bill, gorgeous winter scene, love it. Beautiful work.
John

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on March 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM

Bill, This is excellent! The background is perfect for setting this lone tree apart. The color in the tree (as Bill mentioned) really works nice here. I'm really enjoying this one.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Registered on February 1, 2004, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments

Comment posted by Sairam Sundaresan on March 21, 2013 at 6:57 PM

There is so much depth in this image! I love the subtleness of the trees in the back, and the fog is magical. It really helps enhance the textures and shape of the tree. Wonderful work!

Registered on March 14, 2013, 100 Posts, 643 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Lowe on March 21, 2013 at 8:45 PM

The fog and BG trees really set the mood for this beauty, Bill. This is a fantastic winter scene.

This is being super picky, but you have a dust spot about in the middle of the snow.

Ed

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on March 21, 2013 at 10:59 PM

Nice simple and effective composition. I like the how sharp the tree is because it really pops from the background in the fog.

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Comment posted by Peter Richter on March 22, 2013 at 5:40 AM

A convincing composition for me, Bill. The background trees make for an excellent counterpoint to the bare tree to my eye. The subtle colors add a lot to the atmospehre in my opinion.

Peter

Registered on November 10, 2010, 218 Posts, 2723 Comments

Comment posted by Eva McDermott on March 22, 2013 at 6:35 AM

This is beautiful Bill. I like the ethereal mood and stark conditions of the scene. The foreground tree is well placed.

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Comment posted by John Clulow on March 22, 2013 at 6:59 PM

I agree with everyone else.

But, it does give one a sense of a camera askew, doesn't it? You know, perhaps the need for a perspective crop adjustment or a free transform?

((( (Just kidding, Bill (Roland)) :)) - we need to have balanced parenthses....)

The sense of uprightness comes from what we can still see, through the fog, on the left of the image; so it is through the fog with these trees that we get our sense of what is straight up.

Nice job, Roland.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on March 23, 2013 at 2:09 PM

Simple, almost elegant, a fine winter shot, and it looks quite cold!

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on March 24, 2013 at 12:13 PM

I'm a sucker for stark winter trees and this works beautiful. The background trees fine contrast to foreground subject. Wonder what a b& w might look like.

lucy

Registered on February 25, 2011, 189 Posts, 1160 Comments