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david cunningham
{K:8255} 4/27/2004
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Hey John, great shot. Don't you just love those birch trees. Great job.
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Bill Morgenstern
{K:7157} 3/7/2004
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John - Mary Sue Hayward just directed me to this image. It captures the living spirit of the birch and is similar to some things I am working on, also inspired by Freeman and Andre and their techniques. In my own work I sometimes take the image created as you have done or a slide sandwich and work with it a bit more in PS as I search to find the spirit of the tree and forest as I feel it. If you have time I'd appreciate any comments you may care to offer on what I am doing.
Regards from Canada - Bill
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 1/21/2003
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Thanks Sylvia and John. John's metering technique is spot on. I didn't use it here as I was shooting a whole roll with this technique and was able to meter normally throughout. But if you are going to give this a try in the middle of a roll, changing your shutter speed is probably a faster way to go and as John says, less liable to screw you up when you forget to change the ISO back after your done.
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John Barclay
{K:3650} 1/21/2003
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John, this is a tremendous image. I love using this technique and have had some success using it. I'm a Freeman Fan as well! This is a very strong image with great rhythm in the lines of the Birch Trees and wonderful color. NICE!
P.S. I don't ever change the ISO as sometimes one forgets to set it back! I meter part of the scene that is average and then change my shutter speed. For each stop down in shutter speed the amount of frames double. IE: if you started at a 30th going to a 60th is a double exposure, 60th to 125th is now a 4, 125th to 250th is now 8, etc..
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Sylvia Jones
{K:652} 1/7/2003
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Hi John,
Just having a look through your latest and spotted this very interesting technique - it has worked very well for you. Almost looks as if it is printed on art paper - lovely effect. By the way - Happy New Year - I have replied to your E mail critique on my Cornish seascape but cant see it anywhere so it probably went to the wrong place!
Happy shooting!
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 12/29/2002
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Thank your Tony and Marc. Sounds like we can expect a flurry of multiple exposures sometime in the near future.
Marc et all; I am excited and honoured by your reactions to this photograph. It is very gratifying coming from an audience of my peers.
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Marc Gougenheim
{K:5398} 12/28/2002
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Just another note to tell you that I have now browsed through all your uploads, and that this is still my favorite. I'll look for this book... Inspiring...:-))
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Marc Gougenheim
{K:5398} 12/28/2002
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So far, this is simply my favorite nature image on this site. No joke, and not even the smallest hesitation. It has something which is to me MORE than any natural image. It is a completely different approach of nature itself, which obviously can be called an "abstraction process". The way you did this is absolutely unique, absolutely you, and there is such an undescribable atmosphere in this image !
I feel peace in it, but a strange peace, something more like a pacified interaction between life and death in the vegetal world... I can't really explain, I'm affraid. But I can tell you that this shot really moved me to a pretty unusual level.
On a different note, let me tell you also that this picture is most certainly saleable, and you MUST commercialize it. Prints, yes, but you may also consider puting up a series of 4 to 8 pieces and propose all of it to a poster company and a few specialized art book publishers. I can almost guarantee your success.
Congratulations, and thank you - you really made my day.
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Tony Smallman
{K:23858} 12/24/2002
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Lovely textures and subtle colours here.I really like this photo,I'll go to Amazon and get the book on this technique.
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 12/24/2002
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Thanks everyone.
There are times when film has it completely over digital and I think this is one of them. I haven't shot much film in the last year since I got my Coolpix but when I read Patterson's book on subjective photography, I had to give this multiple exposure technique a try. I really don't see how the technique can be duplicated digitally. If it can, I'd like to know how.
The other instance where film rules is with slide sandwiches. Sure you can use layers, but the results pale in comparison. That said, I did my best to acheive a strong image using layers on a digital image in another photo I posted yesterday. See ...an old fenceline stands... Quick View ID# 100214
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Deb Mayes
{K:19605} 12/23/2002
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Bravo! and thanks for explaining how you did it. :)
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AJ Haselwood
{K:2148} 12/23/2002
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Nice to see something that was done traditionally rather than digitally. I am impressed, very nice image.
AJ
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Mary Sue Hayward
{K:17558} 12/23/2002
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Another comment:
This may be one of those areas where film rules, but do you think the same Photo Impressionism techniques can be applied to the digital image?
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Mary Sue Hayward
{K:17558} 12/23/2002
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This is incredible.
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Ron Browne
{K:1282} 12/23/2002
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Thanks for the tip John. I'll check it out!
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 12/23/2002
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The exposure was straigthforward. I just re-rated the film speed to about 9X the regular ISO.
There is a great book on this technique by Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant called Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image by Key Porter Books.
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Ron Browne
{K:1282} 12/23/2002
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Interesting process, John. How did you calculate exposure?
Very nice.
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