Cheers, Tony.
Cheers, Tony.
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Lovely! Pictures taken without the sky give a finer impression of the forest.
Thanks. Yes, framing is (almost) everything.
Wow the last one is so much like Steichen's The Pond-MoonlightOriginally Posted by North Star
Sure, there are photos from summers, too.
Interesting comment, Tony - thanks. Would you like to elaborate on what makes you say that? There's a lake or a pond in each photograph, trees, and sun near the horizon or treetops, granted. And while there is a kind of haziness to both images, it is markedly different as the Steichen (below) has it mostly because of petroleum jelly spread on the lens or some other such trick, while in my image it's the mist and clouds creating that haze, and also because of the vibrant colours and strong contrast from dark browns to pure white, the moods of the images are rather different. Compositional differences such as the lack of land in the foreground, wider landscape aspect ratio of the image, lack of vertical lines created by trees are also quite numerous. It's not that I'm not flattered by the comparison - Steichen is one of my favourite photographers - but I would just like to understand why it reminded you of the Steichen photograph. I know I was thinking of how JMW Turner (detail from The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839 below) could make the sun in his paintings look so captivating, and so bright that it almost burns the viewers' eyes.
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It reminded me for the primary reason is that I just watched a documentary on Steichen and your photo has in it a body of water, trees and light- that's it. A mere reminder but I agree on all of what you said.Interesting comment, Tony - thanks. Would you like to elaborate on what makes you say that? There's a lake or a pond in each photograph, trees, and sun near the horizon or treetops, granted. And while there is a kind of haziness to both images, it is markedly different as the Steichen (below) has it mostly because of petroleum jelly spread on the lens or some other such trick, while in my image it's the mist and clouds creating that haze, and also because of the vibrant colours and strong contrast from dark browns to pure white, the moods of the images are rather different. Compositional differences such as the lack of land in the foreground, wider landscape aspect ratio of the image, lack of vertical lines created by trees are also quite numerous. It's not that I'm not flattered by the comparison - Steichen is one of my favourite photographers - but I would just like to understand why it reminded you of the Steichen photograph. I know I was thinking of how JMW Turner (detail from The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839 below) could make the sun in his paintings look so captivating, and so bright that it almost burns the viewers' eyes.
Ah, very nice. Steichen's early pictorialism work is wonderful in general - particularly those images of Rodin's sculptures.
Last night we had a fall of snow, just a centimetre, but entire trees look like the plant in your picture. Looks impressive with everything in white, which picks out every little detail.
Something from two years ago
Rothko beach by Tony Walton, on Flickr
Grand Cayman Cayman Islands
Quite ghostly the reflection of the light in the water.
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Yes. I've tried the same shot without moonlight - and it's too dark. (I cut the moon out, which would make it to picturesque)
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