Leaves in a Stream

sdomminsdommin Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
edited April 6, 2006 in Holy Macro
From New Hampshire, Oct 05. This is one of my favorite shots from last fall's foliage season. I was taking a picture of a tree who just wasn't cooperating with me. I looked down and saw this composition of the colorful leaves in a calm part of the stream where the water wasn't flowing rapidly, and bubbles had formed from a small cascade a few feet away. It reminds me of an old Japanese woodcut for some reason...

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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    It's a nice picture, Scott. But who would have expected otherwise from you? If you don't mind me asking, what did you do to the stream in post processing? It looks a bit desaturated. I like the effect, but just can't figure out how much of it is nature and how much of it is Scott.
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  • polartownjunkiepolartownjunkie Registered Users Posts: 182 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    awesome photo, im seeing these leaves and thinking their from an ash tree which is a distant relative of the olive tree

    also
    i enjoy your photos documenting of the water movement, many diffrent directions its flowing, though
    its all in one direction, you know what im saying?
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    Oh...
    sdommin wrote:
    From New Hampshire, Oct 05. This is one of my favorite shots from last fall's foliage season. I was taking a picture of a tree who just wasn't cooperating with me. I looked down and saw this composition of the colorful leaves in a calm part of the stream where the water wasn't flowing rapidly, and bubbles had formed from a small cascade a few feet away. It reminds me of an old Japanese woodcut for some reason...

    streamleaf.jpg

    I like this photo too... something you don't see everyday, glad you were able to capture it and share with us.
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    Wow, these are gorgeous!
    You are shooting with the Sony R1 now?

    Anyway these are some fantastic photos of Zion and Bryce...

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    Nice Effect
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  • sdomminsdommin Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    marlof wrote:
    It's a nice picture, Scott. But who would have expected otherwise from you? If you don't mind me asking, what did you do to the stream in post processing? It looks a bit desaturated. I like the effect, but just can't figure out how much of it is nature and how much of it is Scott.

    Thanks, Marlof. The only post-processing I did to this was to bump up the contrast just a bit (just personal preference - I thought it looked better that way). I'm not quite sure what you mean by the stream being desaturated. Its some dark water with a bunch of tiny white bubbles floating by (and the colored leaves, of course).

    But in the end, its all Mother Nature, isn't it?
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    Hi Scott
    sdommin wrote:
    From New Hampshire, Oct 05. This is one of my favorite shots from last fall's foliage season. I was taking a picture of a tree who just wasn't cooperating with me. I looked down and saw this composition of the colorful leaves in a calm part of the stream where the water wasn't flowing rapidly, and bubbles had formed from a small cascade a few feet away. It reminds me of an old Japanese woodcut for some reason...

    What a lovely picture you've made.....nice warm colours too.
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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2006
    sdommin wrote:
    I'm not quite sure what you mean by the stream being desaturated. Its some dark water with a bunch of tiny white bubbles floating by

    The water looked very B&W to me, esp. yesterday on my work screen. At home, on a color corrected monitor, I see what you mean. Ain't Mother Nature swell, offering that diversity of images, all for free?
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  • sdomminsdommin Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited April 6, 2006
    Hi Dee,

    Yep, I got me a fancy new R1 and I love it! I highly recommend it for us landscape shooters.

    (Having said that, though, this photo was taken with a Canon 20D)
    Dee wrote:
    You are shooting with the Sony R1 now?

    Anyway these are some fantastic photos of Zion and Bryce...

    http://www.pbase.com/sdommin/zion05
    Scott

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