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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: John R on December 16, 2010, 09:08:11 pm

Title: Snow forms
Post by: John R on December 16, 2010, 09:08:11 pm

A couple of shots from the first heavy snowfall at the Badlands of Caledon, just north of Toronto. Not really a Badlands, just a small denuded area that has the appearance of small hoodoos and hills. In the right light and without footprints, it can look spectacular in the snow.

JMR

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: degrub on December 16, 2010, 09:59:16 pm

i like the tones in the first image, and the composition in the second. The two shadow peaks form a nice draw for the eye. The first image is very soothing to me.

Frank

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: francois on December 17, 2010, 04:06:14 am

John,
I like the first image very much. To me, the bluish soft hues make me think to a flower close-up and I can't find a better description than degrub's word: soothing.

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: wolfnowl on December 18, 2010, 03:28:10 pm

I also appreciate the forms and tone of the first one much more than the second.

Mike.

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: John R on December 18, 2010, 05:18:10 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone. Well, I have a whole series taken that day, and I myslef like the first best, but that just the way it is. I had a lot of trouble exposing the whites and was fooled by the camera viewer. Next time I will trust the old rule, overexpose for white, underexpose for blacks. But it sure looked too bright and too white when I did overexpose in the field. Perhaps our eyes get fooled when looking from the viewer to the landscape.

JMR

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: John R on December 19, 2010, 10:21:10 pm

Added a third image if anyone is interested. A lone tree amid hills of snow. Not much of a tree, but with the radiating subtle lines in the snow, it survives and comes to life. I think it is more abstract-like and minimalist, than landscape, though I suppose it is both.

JMR

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: SJ.Butel on December 23, 2010, 02:52:46 am

That last one really gets me, thank you for uploading!

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on December 23, 2010, 03:33:53 am

Quote from: John R on December 19, 2010, 10:21:10 pm

Added a third image if anyone is interested. A lone tree amid hills of snow. Not much of a tree, but with the radiating subtle lines in the snow, it survives and comes to life. I think it is more abstract-like and minimalist, than landscape, though I suppose it is both.

JMR

It's the best of a very good three, I think. The scale is impossible to determine, which is pleasing.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Snow forms
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 23, 2010, 11:04:43 am

Quote from: kikashi on December 23, 2010, 03:33:53 am

It's the best of a very good three, I think. The scale is impossible to determine, which is pleasing.

Jeremy

+1.
Eric