I appreciate everyone's feedback on the last doug fir cone images I posted. I still haven't found the time to shoot fresh and try a polarizer, but I did find another shot from the series that had a little wider field of vision, thus more repetition of the patter and no "tails" cut off. The shots that had an even broader perspective showed too much of the taper of the cone, sap, other stuff that is part of the cone's nature but don't add much to the graphic quality of the image.
Let me know if you like this one better than the one in "Icon of Oregon History" below. This one was shot with a wider aperture and faster shutter speed, which I'm afraid led to more glare. I attempted to replicate the bleach bypass effect that I used last time. In my mind, that's crucial to making the image have the grit it should represent (although I still might print the idealized warm one for a wall somewhere ;-)
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0 repliesLet me know if you like this one better than the one in "Icon of Oregon History" below. This one was shot with a wider aperture and faster shutter speed, which I'm afraid led to more glare. I attempted to replicate the bleach bypass effect that I used last time. In my mind, that's crucial to making the image have the grit it should represent (although I still might print the idealized warm one for a wall somewhere ;-)