Do people have favorite ferns? If so, I bet this ranks high - Maidenhair fern is magical - it’s light and airy and moves on the slightest air currents. So when I saw the afternoon sun shining through them in the yard I went out to see what I could do. Wide open, fast shutter speed, breezy backlighting. It says fall to me.
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Part of my attempts to capture fall in different ways. Some speak only to me, but I’d like to hear what (if anything) this says to you.
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Wb and smoothing of that massive dynamic range in Lightroom - some sharpening and texture. A a little crop and a flip. Reduced luminosity of the orange channel, but raised it in the reds. Slight vignette.
Ferns always have something to say to me also Kristen. Living where I do and photographing where I do, it is just as well as ferns are thick, dominant, and everywhere. Among my favourite native ferns are Black Mamaku (a large tree fern), Heruheru (a feathery ground fern), Kiokio (palm-leaf fern), Mouku (hen and chicken fern) and the filmy ferns. A few years ago I had a bit of an obsession photographing them…but coffee gradually overcame that
I rarely see entire ferns dried off as is suggested in your photo (I think), however, as they are nearly always green here with a few dead older fronds.
Anyway, your photo does talk…to me it creates a significant feeling of weightlessness and joy. I can actually feel that and my heart rate responds. I may be odd (and my wife Elizabeth can probably attest to that) but I need to get an emotional reponse to a scene before I consider photographing it. While some of the resultant photos captured this way have little, if any, appeal to others is irrelevant to me. Your photo works for me. Cheers.
I should have known you’d have favorites, @Phil_G and I can only imagine the lush forest floor they must create. The closest I’ve come is some redwood groves and woods, but I have yet to really hit any temperate or tropical rainforests. Post your backlog if you want, I’d be curious to see. You can put them in critique or showcase.
Thanks @Dean_Salman - that’s what grabbed me when I looked out the window, how the light in the forest floor seemed to expand that small dimension. Glad you enjoyed it.
