From the trail above the Snoqualmie River on the Seattle PNWNP outing recently.
Hey, Rick, Bryan and Michelle: I was studying the scene as you were doing a ways in front of me. Couldn't figure out how to take everything in so it would look like we saw it. So I chose the telephoto for a more intimate look at some of the details. Now I was in a hurry, lest I get left behind, you know, so no tripod and not a very good quality shot. And well, uh, there wasn't time to look for more shots (tsk, tsk!)... Sooo, just wondering what you think of this interpretation, since you were there and scouting hard for a shot.
D700, 70-200 (@ 116 mm) on a tripod handheld (don't ask! ); f 22, 1/2, ISO 400.
Anyway, all comments welcome, whether you were there or not.
The first image I generally like. it's a complicated scene so I'm unsure what I would do different... Spose I'll just have to keep going back down the Middle Fork eh??
The second image I like much better!! It has a nice sense of place in the forest of the forest!! That breeze that day did none of us any favors with the ferns moving all the time. But even with the mildly fuzzy ferns I'm liking this one quite well!! It would make a very enjoyable desktop background on someone's puter eh?
What I was looking for along the cliff was a spot I could isolate the trees growing on the cliff accentuated by some of the fracture lines, without any of the closer trees in the way because they all looked too busy to me. I see how you were trying to frame the scene but the foreground branches just look too haphazard to me and there's not a whole lot in the BG to focus on other than the flat patterns.
The second shot I agree with Rick on, its much better! I'm not too fond of the fern on the right side though, since it really isn't balanced out elsewhere in the frame. The ground cover in there was just a little too messy to me, which is why I tried to focus upward more often than not.
Posted by David Bostock on March 17, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Wow, Catherine, I am absolutely amazed by your photoshop skills! To turn the first image into the second one is quite an accomplishment. I bow to your photoshop mastery!
Truthfully, I like the first shot for the unconventional-ness. It causes a second, third, and fourth look to ponder what the photographer envisioned. (That sounds bad, but it's really a good thing)...
Both images are ones that I'd be proud to have in my collection. Congrats.
Ha-ha! Very funny, David. Yeah, that cloner of mine is really a magical instrument! Didn't you know? Found it at Hogwart's under the womping willow. Quite the adventure to get in and back out alive with it, too, I'm tellin' ya!
Thanks for the comment and the encouragement. I like the "unconventional" part. I also wanted to include all the sticks and other detritus in the 2nd image, as it's true to a PNW forest. Still, was trying to make images that weren't toooo messy, though.
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7 repliesHey, Rick, Bryan and Michelle: I was studying the scene as you were doing a ways in front of me. Couldn't figure out how to take everything in so it would look like we saw it. So I chose the telephoto for a more intimate look at some of the details. Now I was in a hurry, lest I get left behind, you know, so no tripod and not a very good quality shot. And well, uh, there wasn't time to look for more shots (tsk, tsk!)...
D700, 70-200 (@ 116 mm) on a tripod handheld (don't ask!
Anyway, all comments welcome, whether you were there or not.
So, uh, how about this one?
The second image I like much better!! It has a nice sense of place in the forest of the forest!! That breeze that day did none of us any favors with the ferns moving all the time. But even with the mildly fuzzy ferns I'm liking this one quite well!! It would make a very enjoyable desktop background on someone's puter eh?
Nicely done Catherine!!
The second shot I agree with Rick on, its much better! I'm not too fond of the fern on the right side though, since it really isn't balanced out elsewhere in the frame. The ground cover in there was just a little too messy to me, which is why I tried to focus upward more often than not.
Truthfully, I like the first shot for the unconventional-ness. It causes a second, third, and fourth look to ponder what the photographer envisioned. (That sounds bad, but it's really a good thing)...
Both images are ones that I'd be proud to have in my collection. Congrats.
Thanks for the comment and the encouragement. I like the "unconventional" part. I also wanted to include all the sticks and other detritus in the 2nd image, as it's true to a PNW forest. Still, was trying to make images that weren't toooo messy, though.