Blues and greens

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Image Description

I blended three images of trees in Photoshop. They all involved some camera movement. All had some ingredients I liked and some I didn’t. I kept playing with the mix until this emerged.

Technical Details

All were ISO 100, 300mm, f/32, ,4 sec.

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I like this image in and of itself, Don, but your title kind of led me astray as the greens and blues look far too bright for what I would think of as a nighttime forest and it took me a few minutes to get past that.

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Thanks for the comment, Dennis. I changed the title. I try to avoid coloring a viewer’s response with a title. Obviously I failed in this instance.

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I like your creation here. I think if the blue and green were less saturated this image would be blah. My reaction is that it’s somewhat ominous, mysterious, and somewhat enchanting. I feel drawn in past the greens into the blues.

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Don, this definitely evokes emotions from me - feels like a very peaceful, quiet woods where I could spend a lot of time under one of the trees. Your compilation of several images worked very well and the colour balance is perfect.

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Igor, Sandy, thanks. I’m glad it prompted a reaction.