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Description
This is basically a three-shot multiple exposure in additive mode, taken on a morning walk in our mountain preserve.
Specific Feedback
All comments are welcome.
Technical Details
The shots were all taken at ISO 400, f/16. Focal length and shutter speed changed from shot to shot. I made a number of changes in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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Wonderful!! I love the overlay effects you are getting with these! Seeing the smaller branches through the larger trunks is very engaging, as is the play of colors and abstract shapes. Very cool!!
Wow! This is beautiful Don. Like Diane mentioned, I’m loving seeing those branches in the larger trees. The muted colours are a gorgeous mix of earthy and calm blue. Not cold though.
There is a dreamlike quality here that is really quite special.
Really like the tones coming through this. When you say “three-shot multiple exposure in additive mode”, was this made in camera and just some post in Photoshop? Or where they three different images you layered in PS? More just curious how when you make an image like this if you see it when out in the field, or more when you are looking at your whole take back home? Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Patrick. The three shots were combined in camera. It can be done in Photoshop and you actually have more control over the result that way. I don’t have any philosophical preference for doing it one way rather than the other.
In this case, I duplicated the multiple exposure in Photoshop and layered it atop the original. That’s something I learned by watching videos of how Valda Bailey and Doug Chinnery do this.
I didn’t envision the final result here when I was in the field. It was more a matter of choosing ingredients that might work well together. I’d like to get to the point where I can foresee a result and take the constituent images accordingly, but I’m not there.
This is most excellent, Don! And in-camera - impressive. I agree with Sandy on those grayish spots at the bottom. If you’d done this in PS, you could have masked that area to better get a more textured look. You could crop off the bottom, I suppose. Or maybe clone over some texture from the other parts of the image.
