Dave Dillemuth
Well-Known Member
From my recent week in the Eastern Sierra. I utilized a 200mm focal length to compress and isolate these trunks. Processed to be a high key image. All comments welcome.
Dave
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Mike Lewis
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I am very much a sucker for shining white Aspen trunks - so I'm loving the post processing work done here.
As a possible suggestion, I find the amount of leaves at the bottom to be distracting me a little bit from the main subject though. Have you tried out a more aggressive crop along the bottom to cut some of that off - for me it makes the trunks pop all the more, and alps brings my eye up to the lovely colors at the very top of the image a little faster as well.
Just a suggestion though, as this is a great image in any case!
ML
As a possible suggestion, I find the amount of leaves at the bottom to be distracting me a little bit from the main subject though. Have you tried out a more aggressive crop along the bottom to cut some of that off - for me it makes the trunks pop all the more, and alps brings my eye up to the lovely colors at the very top of the image a little faster as well.
Just a suggestion though, as this is a great image in any case!
ML
This is a really neat example of a kind of shot I have been trying to get for years. My problem is identifying a candidate stand of aspens. This is very helpful in pre-visualizing a scene. Thanks for posting.
This is really cool Dave! I like what you came up with. I agree with Ben, it's hard to identify stands that will work for this.
While I liked it totally as you have composed this, I read Mike's suggestion, and maybe took his suggestion one step further and found that if you went to a pano crop maybe a 16x9 you can totally crop off the bottom aspen leaves, and it totally turns this into a completely different image almost. Anyway, I liked it as an additional idea to this one.
While I liked it totally as you have composed this, I read Mike's suggestion, and maybe took his suggestion one step further and found that if you went to a pano crop maybe a 16x9 you can totally crop off the bottom aspen leaves, and it totally turns this into a completely different image almost. Anyway, I liked it as an additional idea to this one.
Good idea Jim, and I would like to see it both ways, because i think the lower color anchors it. One other thing here is the processing is well suited to this sort of image with low contrast and muted colors. Very well done.
AlanLichty
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I like the high key approach for these aspen with this late in the fall leaf progression. I can definitely see Mike's suggested edit for being an interesting option. There is a very attractive comp lurking in just the top 2/3 of this image.
