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Ferns, Summer

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Posted by Andy Drumer on July 19, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Catherine's great view of the forest inspired me to post this shot I took a few says ago on a trip to Neverland, so famously named by Mr. Adamus, on Eagle Creek. The ferns were blowing around as this is in a deep, narrow gorge with a small waterfall behind me. As I pulled it out of the shadows in PS (fast shutter was needed) I realized I liked it less the brighter it got. So, I took my brightened image and added a layer on the "overlay" mode and wow I instantly loved it. A bit more dodging an burning and here it is. I also gaussian blurred the overlay layer to give a softer and hopefully more intimate feel. Curious as to what you think, this was a slightly different approach for me. Thanks

Canon Pro1 - 1/15th @ f/3.5, 170mm, Polarizer.
Posted by Mark Hudon on July 19, 2007 at 1:56 PM
It's dreamy and sort of graphic. I like it.
Posted by Trevor Anderson on July 19, 2007 at 2:40 PM
I like the mood the lighting creates here. The fern placement creates an illusion of mass depth between the ferns and the descending water.
Posted by Curtis Knight on July 19, 2007 at 5:45 PM
nice one Andy. I like the way the water almost looks like a dividing line for a mirror image.
Posted by Mike Dawson on July 20, 2007 at 12:24 AM
I like the contrast and lush greens here
Posted by Tom Kloster on July 20, 2007 at 2:38 AM
I like it, Andy - not sure whether you blurred the edges of the foliage or not. It's just shy of sharp on my monitor, but maybe that was your intention? My only comment would be consider enough more contrast in the water to clearly bring it out as a white streak. It's a bit greenish on my monitor, but that could just be the scaled image, too.

Is Neverland that spot downstream from Metlako that was the Oregon Wild winner last year? I hadn't heard that name before!

Tom
Posted by Catherine Reilly on July 20, 2007 at 3:42 AM
Hey, Andy, I like this a lot for reasons stated by others above. Way to work it! Glad you posted it and happy to have provided some impetus for you! :smile: Being in the forest is grand! Love it. And I'm glad I'm learning to make my photos of the experience better. Let's rock on.
Posted by Andy Drumer on July 20, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Thank you for the comments everyone, yes tom, this is the spot where the USGS marks the actual "Metlako Falls" I tried to climb up the falls here last week but was just a few pounds of arm muscle short, bummer, I was going to make it to the base of metlako!

Catherine thanks for the reply, I think the technique I used here might be good on your shot, too. Duplicate the layer, put it on "overlay" mode, blur it by about 8 pixels, and then reduce opacity to about 40%. Does interesting things!
Posted by Tom Kloster on July 21, 2007 at 2:01 AM
Andy, you're going to think I've gone off the deep end, but bear with me, here: I've seen the shot of the falls that you're trying to scale, and agree that it looks pretty grim to scale without climbing gear. BUT there's another way -- have you considered carrying a folding ladder up there? You can rent one for a day at Home Depot, and an 8 or 10 foot model folds down to 5 feet and maybe 25 lbs to carry.

This actually came to mind because I once hauled a rope ladder up the Salmon River Canyon to allow some non-climbers to make it down a 15 foot cliff. Of course, a rope ladder only works from the top of the cliff...

Okay, you're right... I've gone off the deep end...

Tom :eek: