Lonely Winter

bike21

A few from my photo safari last week around Helena, Montana. Found a few objects nicely isolated from their surrounds. Thanks for looking!

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Richard

#1 is about as minimal as it gets. One can imagine the tourist board's poster, "Montana: Get away from it all"

My favorite is #4. It leaves you wondering what those shadows are from (if that's what they are, dunno). Very nice.

kdog

Richard wrote: »

#1 is about as minimal as it gets. One can imagine the tourist board's poster, "Montana: Get away from it all"

My first reaction was that it's brilliant. Then I noticed that the horizon and hence the pole were tilted and I thought, "you had one job to do...."

Really a delightful and slightly quirky set.

Stumblebum

IMO #3 is strongest.....if mine, I would remove 1.5 inches from top....and work extra hard to get rid of footprints.
Cheers!

sarasphotos

I really lilke this set - great feelings of loneliness. I don't agree with Taz about the footprints in #3 - I like the mystery of "who was here, where has that person gone?", but I agree with his suggestion about the crop.

Just being nit-picky: in #2 I'm a little bugged that the crop on the archway is not dead center. And in #4 I wish the snow were less blue.

Thanks for sharing!

CHeers, Sara

Thelensspot

Love #3! clap

Eia

Three for me! I would consider lessening the hue a bit in the mountains and sky but this is great as is!

Cavalier

Nice set - really speaks to Montana! In #4, I would use the lasso tool, circle that little sapling and use the Content-Aware Fill to remove it. No one would know, except us of course .

Hackbone

Like #3 as that tree keeps speaking to me. Wonder if you did a severe crop and have the tree more dominant. Maybe a long horizontal.

roaddog52

I spend a lot of time in Montana and these are some great Montana winter images.

Definitely #3, great shot thumb. I agree with Anna, I would warm this up just a tad.

#4, the small sapling works for me. I see it as an integral part of the story, the small sapling struggling against the elements, and the large tree, success of survival. Maybe a crop off of the bottom, half way between the two diagonal blue shadows.

Phil

Cornflake

I like these very much. Agree with Joel as to the first.

joe-bob

#4 is lonely indeed. Nice set.

bike21

Richard wrote: »

#1 is about as minimal as it gets. One can imagine the tourist board's poster, "Montana: Get away from it all"

My favorite is #4. It leaves you wondering what those shadows are from (if that's what they are, dunno). Very nice.

, I'm sure Montana would love that

Yep, shadows it was one of those opportunistic moments as I'd been driving in the hills behind Helena, Montana looking for a more 'epic' viewpoint then decided on some minimalism instead.

bike21

kdog wrote: »

My first reaction was that it's brilliant. Then I noticed that the horizon and hence the pole were tilted and I thought, "you had one job to do...."

Really a delightful and slightly quirky set.

I've been a called a lot of things, but I'll take *almost* being called brilliant for my work Nothing was straight in that scene, I actually wondered about your comment and took another look in LR. Straighten the p;ole and the horizon is off and vice versa. It's perfectly imperfect.

Thanks for the comment!

bike21

Stumblebum wrote: »

IMO #3 is strongest.....if mine, I would remove 1.5 inches from top....and work extra hard to get rid of footprints.
Cheers!

Get rid of the footprints?! I'm too lazy for that

bike21

sarasphotos wrote: »

I really lilke this set - great feelings of loneliness. I don't agree with Taz about the footprints in #3 - I like the mystery of "who was here, where has that person gone?", but I agree with his suggestion about the crop.

Just being nit-picky: in #2 I'm a little bugged that the crop on the archway is not dead center. And in #4 I wish the snow were less blue.

Thanks for sharing!

CHeers, Sara

Thanks for the comments Sara, definitely could've got the crop more centered and I agree I should re-work the blue snow a bit.

bike21

Thelensspot wrote: »

Love #3! clap

Eia wrote: »

Three for me! I would consider lessening the hue a bit in the mountains and sky but this is great as is!

Thanks!

bike21

Cavalier wrote: »

Nice set - really speaks to Montana! In #4, I would use the lasso tool, circle that little sapling and use the Content-Aware Fill to remove it. No one would know, except us of course .

Ahh I like my little sapling.