Just a small cluster of aspen leaves downed by a fairly heavy snowfall while I was in Lundy Canyon a couple years back now. It started out as a nice easy fall, but within a half hour it was really coming down. It saturated the tree leaves and limbs in the area to a point of causing some massive fallout.
Posted by Debjit Ghosh on September 20, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Fantastic Paul. The contrasting color combination makes this shot very special. also the details in the leaves are wonderful.
Posted by Benjamin Glatt on September 21, 2008 at 3:25 AM
I love the arrangement. I kinda wish that the leaves were in better condition, but I guess when you find this arrangement, ya gotta shoot it! Nice work.
Posted by Harley Goldman on September 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Paul,
This is sweet! Great little arrangement of leaves, love the waterbeads. I like the fact the leaves are not perfect, which, with the snow, reinforces the perception of the leaving the fall season behind.
Posted by Eric Good on September 22, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Nice arrangement of leaves... I particularly like the way the leaf stems pinwheel around the image. If there is any more detail in the brighter snow areas near the center of the image that would be nice, but this works nicely as presented. Well seen!
Posted by Lon Overacker on September 22, 2008 at 12:34 AM
Paul,
I too really like the arrangement of leaves and the dew/water drops on the leaves make for excellent detail. Now since no one else mentioned this, perhaps it's my monitor (and I just got a new one recently,) but a good portion of the snow, especially in the UR quadrant, appears clipped on my screen. Also, I see a bit of a magenta ring around a couple of the aspen leaves. Hopefully it's just me, but does anyone else see it?
I really like this intimate little scene and I hope the clipping in the whites is just me. If it is, I guess I better re-calibrate..
Thank you everyone for the comments. Just happened upon this image and it brought about thoughts of the upcoming sierra trip.
Lon, you are right about the slight magenta edging. Although I had pulled 50% of the cast out I missed some edges that still had issues. I've made a change that should help. I actually do not see a tremendous amount of clipping, and really very little in the tiff. I do realize where I was getting all the magenta from too.....it was Velvia 100 and not 50.
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This is sweet! Great little arrangement of leaves, love the waterbeads. I like the fact the leaves are not perfect, which, with the snow, reinforces the perception of the leaving the fall season behind.
I too really like the arrangement of leaves and the dew/water drops on the leaves make for excellent detail. Now since no one else mentioned this, perhaps it's my monitor (and I just got a new one recently,) but a good portion of the snow, especially in the UR quadrant, appears clipped on my screen. Also, I see a bit of a magenta ring around a couple of the aspen leaves. Hopefully it's just me, but does anyone else see it?
I really like this intimate little scene and I hope the clipping in the whites is just me. If it is, I guess I better re-calibrate..
Lon
Lon, you are right about the slight magenta edging. Although I had pulled 50% of the cast out I missed some edges that still had issues. I've made a change that should help. I actually do not see a tremendous amount of clipping, and really very little in the tiff. I do realize where I was getting all the magenta from too.....it was Velvia 100 and not 50.