Winter Scenes

[Bonish Photo]

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









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?

[irrigator]

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.



Volleyball anyone.




A little frozen Spanish Moss.




The chain link fence next to my house.

[Bonish Photo]

Those Shots of the ice on the Volley Ball net and on the fence are really cool!!

[Matt]

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



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[Bonish Photo]

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

[Matt]

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.

[gldiana]

Beautiful photos all of you.

[Pete PT]

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!

[Robin]

Very nice, all of you!

We've had almost no snow here, yet! I'm still waiting...

[Bonish Photo]

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

[Matt]

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.

[Bonish Photo]

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!

[bob_r]

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.

Bob R

Edited to add another shot with a reflected sky.

Pat,
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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