Ch. 38::"One"::Nik

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited May 14, 2005 in The Dgrin Challenges
The famous Lone Cypress (Carmel, CA, May 2005):

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"May the f/stop be with you!"

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  • THE TOOTHTHE TOOTH Registered Users Posts: 62 Big grins
    edited May 12, 2005
    That is a beautiful picture. Good find.
    You can't handle THE TOOTH!!!
  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited May 12, 2005
    Nice shot. I wonder if it would make a better "one" statement if you cropped out the trees on the left.

    mitch
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 12, 2005
    God knows I tried...
    Mitchell wrote:
    Nice shot. I wonder if it would make a better "one" statement if you cropped out the trees on the left.

    mitch
    Thanks Mitch...
    I played with it for a long time, trying various crops. Each time it looses something dear to the whole thing.ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited May 12, 2005
    Could you rent a helicopter and fly a bit to the right?

    I think I have seen that tree before from the "air" angle, without trees.

    Good shot!

    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • digital faeriedigital faerie Registered Users Posts: 667 Major grins
    edited May 12, 2005
    Mitchell wrote:
    Nice shot. I wonder if it would make a better "one" statement if you cropped out the trees on the left.

    mitch
    holy cow, that's awesome! I think it's perfect for the challenge and a great shot. it might be my monitor (even though it's supposed to be calibrated) but maybe the sat could be upped a bit?? ne_nau.gif I know it was a difficult capture with the light being so flat and all, though.
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited May 13, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Could you rent a helicopter and fly a bit to the right?
    rolleyes1.gif
    Since 2004...
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2005
    Nice idea..
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Could you rent a helicopter and fly a bit to the right?

    I think I have seen that tree before from the "air" angle, without trees.

    Good shot!

    g
    I'll definitely do it next time when I'm in carmel:-)
    Thanks for watching!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2005
    I was considering that..
    digital faerie wrote:
    holy cow, that's awesome! I think it's perfect for the challenge and a great shot. it might be my monitor (even though it's supposed to be calibrated) but maybe the sat could be upped a bit?? ne_nau.gif I know it was a difficult capture with the light being so flat and all, though.
    In fact, I played with this image for about an hour in CS2, trying crops, sats, etc. I decided on this one, becuase I thought that the gray rainy light brings more "loneliness" to the picture, hence more to the challenge..

    Thank you for your comment!
    Love your work!

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • PrezwoodzPrezwoodz Registered Users Posts: 1,147 Major grins
    edited May 13, 2005
    dont know if it was possible but i would think dropping down to the right and aiming more out towards the water would have made the tree more in a "one" zone :) Just me though! thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2005
    Thank you!
    THE TOOTH wrote:
    That is a beautiful picture. Good find.
    I guess it was $7.50 well spent (the fee to enter 17-mile drive:-)

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2005
    Unfortunately it was not
    Prezwoodz wrote:
    dont know if it was possible but i would think dropping down to the right and aiming more out towards the water would have made the tree more in a "one" zone :) Just me though! thumb.gif
    If I remember correctly there would be other trees on the right (you can see their branches coming into the frame already).
    Any tighter crop would loose the rock bottom or the distant shore on the left which I deem kinda important.

    I'm not saying it's not possible to take a better shot (it most likely is:-), but it was raining, Michiel and Sid was wating for me in SF, I was already tired after 3 days of constant shooting - so I only took a few shots on the subject, this one I think is the best of them..

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • digital faeriedigital faerie Registered Users Posts: 667 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2005
    Nikolai wrote:
    In fact, I played with this image for about an hour in CS2, trying crops, sats, etc. I decided on this one, becuase I thought that the gray rainy light brings more "loneliness" to the picture, hence more to the challenge..

    Thank you for your comment!
    Love your work!

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    the loneliness is an excellent point! thumb.gif
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2005
    Prezwoodz wrote:
    dont know if it was possible but i would think dropping down to the right and aiming more out towards the water would have made the tree more in a "one" zone :) Just me though! thumb.gif
    I can imagine what you would do to get THE shot, here.

    Anyone who has not read his "near death" climbing experience should!

    Unforgettable. A lack of true fear most often found in the young!

    And there has to be a lack of fear, for steady hands, feet and thinking, or death is certain. Please, you all here, almost dying is most inconvenient. SFran and Sid would have been waiting a long time.

    Good ideas, though, mtn climber.

    ginger (65 yrs old) I have been up, and I have been down. Down is better right now.

    He has a great post re his mtn experience. Has photos, too.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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