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Winter Scenes

Postby Bonish Photo » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:14 am

I thought since most of us are socked in with Winter Weather, we could all post a few shots to show what we have accomplished to make the best of the nasty stuff.

Some times you can actually make it look quite beautiful

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Come on, lets see what you've got so far this Winter. Irrigator, I'm thinking you'll just have to show your coldest Florida morning...What is that? 60 degrees? 8)
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Postby irrigator » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:02 am

I really like the snowy walkway shot. 60 Degrees?? We had 27 degrees one morning back in January. We had to ice in our plants at the Nursery for about 10 hours of below freezing temps. A long night but a beautiful morning. I love shooting weather extremes.It was near 70 the next afternoon. By the way, it was 88 here yesterday.

A lot of ice on one of the oak trees.

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Volleyball anyone.

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A little frozen Spanish Moss.

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The chain link fence next to my house.

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Postby Bonish Photo » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:21 am

Those Shots of the ice on the Volley Ball net and on the fence are really cool!!
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Postby Matt » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:24 am

Here's my shot of the winter castle....

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Postby Bonish Photo » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:39 pm

Matt, that is a great shot! I might try and burn in the top of the image so those clouds match the color of the water....Just a thought
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Postby Matt » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:20 pm

Sounds good...I'll try that. I'm just learning on the PSE 6 so I'll play around with it. Glad you like it...its one of my faves too.
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Postby gldiana » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:18 pm

Beautiful photos all of you.
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Postby Pete PT » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:55 am

Good white balance on the snow shots..always a difficult thing to get just right. Really like the snow blow on the mountain peak, although my 2 cents preference would have been to crop the sky more. Well done! :)
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Postby Robin » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:29 pm

Very nice, all of you! :D

We've had almost no snow here, yet! I'm still waiting...
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Postby Bonish Photo » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:33 pm

Pete PT wrote:Really like the snow blow on the mountain peak, although my 2 cents preference would have been to crop the sky more. Well done! :)


Thanks Pete, I always have to remind myself when shooting that I'm not shooting for a cover anymore. I used to shoot for a publication and always had to leave space for the header on the top of images.

Now I find myself going back looking through images and thinking "That is way too much dead space on the top of the image!"

Glad you noticed
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Bonish....burn in clouds?

Postby Matt » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:32 am

Hey....how would I do that with PSE 6? I'm a newbie and don't know the technique. Could you help as I'd like to submit this photo in a contest but need to make it "PoP" a little more.

Thanks in advance.
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Postby Bonish Photo » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:27 pm

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Hey Matt, I took the liberty to darken the sky with just a simple Burn Tool in PS2 set to 6%. I just ran a few passes over the top of the image till it matched the reflection in the water more.

This is just my opinion, but I think this gives the image much more realism and a bit more character. Sort of moody!
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Postby bob_r » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:03 am

Bonish Photo wrote:This is just my opinion, but I think this gives the image much more realism and a bit more character. Sort of moody!


Pat,

I have to disagree with you on this one. Reflections in the water are always darker than the actual subjects. I think the original is much more realistic. Your edited version is more moody, but not more realistic.

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Edited to add another shot with a reflected sky.

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No filters or post processing was done to change the reflection or sky in this shot. You can see the reflection of the sky is much darker than the actual sky.

I think that's where a lot of people screw up with neutral density filters when taking water reflected shots. They darken the sky to the point that it ends up darker than the relfection and no longer looks natural or accurate.

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