Posted by Philip Schwarz on February 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Joel can take inspirational credit for this one. His B&W photo got me looking for a B&W subject. This is a group of trees covered in fresh snow up in the Porcupine Mountains backcountry taken a couple of weeks ago. I started out looking at it as a B&W conversion but didn’t really like it so I started fiddling around and ended up with this. It reminds me of frost on a window.
Unfortunately, when I reached this point I received the royal summons so I quickly saved the photo. When I went back to it several days later I realized I had saved it in jpeg format and so far have not been able to reverse engineer it.
Interesting effect - is it embossed? I'm not sure that I'd immediately guess that it started as a tree image. It reminds me of ice on a window. I hope you post this in the photo art forum too.
Posted by Tim Mulholland on February 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Hey, Phil, this is pretty cool! I really like the idea, the creativity that you're expressing in this photo. Now you've got me thinking...
Definatly not a usual shot. I have came back to it a couple times to look. I think it would be one that you would stop to look at often, if it was hanging in a hallway.
Posted by Toni Lankerd on February 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
I wasn't sure what it was at first, but I really like this image, Phil. I'd say you probably embossed it..and it works!
Yeah, at first glance it does resemble rain streaks on glass, but I do see the almost "film negative effect" of the forest. Where the tree trunks meet the snow gives the slightest anchor of reality. Very interesting and very well realized.
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