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jeff lynch
{K:4770} 9/30/2003
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Thanks for the info John. I really appreciate it man.
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Kim Culbert
{K:37070} 9/23/2003
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John, I'm glad to see that you are still here, posting, commenting, just being.
This image drew me in right away. The glowing hues of the sky and grass anchored with the tree trunk and the gravestones. Truly some impressive magical light here. I particularly like the tree branch reaching down towards the stones... they pull my eye where I'm supposed to be and your exposure is amazing on the stones themselves. Such detail!
The best of the bunch... the emotion is pumping out of it!
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Alisa Mudge
{K:12511} 2/13/2004
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Very well done John. You do have a way of completing an emotion that you set out for.
Even the thin frame adds perfectly.
Alisa
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Egidija Smilingiene
{K:3227} 9/22/2003
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so sad... i feel so sad then i readed your "about"...
you made very good image with its own mood...
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Christian Barrette
{K:21125} 9/22/2003
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Of the series, this one touches me the most. The horizontal framing fits the theme better for me, the dark mass of the trunk is a wonderful counterpoint to the monument (although in terms of apparent masses, it could be said the other way around). The branch that descends over the monument is allusive of protection and shelter. The glow in the light entails a feeling of serenity and fullfilment. Great thought you had to overexpose like that. A standard shot would have fought to balance between the highlights and the shadow ; something impossible to do when you have a scene with almost 8 stops between the whites and the blacks.
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 9/22/2003
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Thanks folks. The exposure for this was started in camera and finished in the computer. As indicated above, the intial exposure was a full stop over. I was shooting under the trees with bright sun in the background. I set the coolpix to b&w saturation to get a better idea of where I was going. In the computer, I increased the contrast by making it lighter and bolder using an auto contrast adjustment in Paint Shop Pro that gives me great control. I repeatedly applied this filter in the same manner 4 times. Three was not enough, five was too much. The result is quite a long way from the original but very close to what I had in mind.
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xy x
{K:41915} 9/22/2003
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Perfect B&W image, very good composition, well done!
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John Chiu
{K:6250} 9/21/2003
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A tragedy to the family.... the picture is nicely presented in B/W.
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jeff lynch
{K:4770} 9/21/2003
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A very well done image here John. Sad, but well done.
And how does one achieve this infrared effect with the trusty 995? Whatever you have done you have managed to control the detail quite well. Nice one here man.
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Kaan AYDIN
{K:1984} 9/21/2003
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This is just amazing..light seems really magical in this picture..
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