Mother Nature, revisited

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted January 18, 20051,727 views7 comments

When NPN first went online, I posted the original image of this and did an article on it. Since then, I've had a chance to play with it a bit in image editing. This is one of my favorite versions. I gave it the 'Orton' look digitally to make it softer, give it a more painterly effect, cropped the lamppost on the right in half, and a little bit from the top, in order to draw the eye more into the scene and straight to the lighthouse.

Grand Haven, MI

Pentax ME Super
Sigma 80-200mm lens
UV filter
Kodak Gold 200

Any suggestions and/or comments welcome, as always.

Toni

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Pete D on January 18, 2005 at 3:42 PM

I remember the original. Maybe my visual memory tends to even things out, but I don't recall the foreground snow being so featureless. Otherwise, this works very well as a dreamy version. It is fun using photoshop to create very different versions.

Pete D.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 590 Posts, 1794 Comments

Comment posted by Toni Lankerd on January 18, 2005 at 3:59 PM

That's one of the drawbacks of digital Orton's...it has a tendency to not show as much detail.

Thanks, Pete!

Registered on January 3, 2005, 360 Posts, 4004 Comments

Comment posted by J.P. Li on January 19, 2005 at 5:19 AM

very nice mood to this scene. Very painterly.

I've started to use photo's a base to work from, the end product being neither an untouched photograph or fully digital image, but rather a melding of the two to create something else.

jp

Registered on September 15, 2004, 63 Posts, 195 Comments

Comment posted by Kenneth Kijewski on January 19, 2005 at 7:39 PM

This is REALLY nice, Toni! I like the look and feel of this...like a painting.

Nice work!

Registered on February 17, 2004, 166 Posts, 3390 Comments

Comment posted by Buck Ward on January 24, 2005 at 11:20 PM

This is one of my all-time favorite photos, ever since I saw the version you first posted, (on another website). Perhaps that one was a slightly different perspective, I can't remember for sure. Anyhow, I think I gushed about it then, so I'll restrain myself this time.

Great picture!

Registered on December 8, 2003, 96 Posts, 1917 Comments

Comment posted by Toni Lankerd on January 25, 2005 at 11:09 PM

Thank you all! It's still one of my favorites too, Buck:) And yes, it is the same picture, only cropped some from the right and the top. I only have one composition of this phenomenon.

Toni

Registered on January 3, 2005, 360 Posts, 4004 Comments

Comment posted by Troup Nightingale on October 5, 2006 at 4:54 PM

Nobody mentioned the sea bird! I think it helps out more than you'd think - subconsciously! Great work!

Registered on September 29, 2006, 10 Posts, 47 Comments