Forest Fantasy #7

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

I’ve been going back through some old ICMs to try to get inspired to do some again, and found this one that I’d love to emulate. It’s just a stand of trees.

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All comments welcome!

Technical Details

Lost to history, but hardly relevant to creative stuff. The layers were flattened, but I think it’s only two images, in some blend mode with possible masking.

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What got me here were your “technical details.” :slight_smile: I do like the minimal color palette. I could see getting these yellows to go a little more vibrant gold. And the light blues to go a little darker and bluer? Gives such a nice fall feeling as it is. Nice.

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Nice ICM work!

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I’d call this one “haunting”. It’s very atmospheric, Diane. I might be tempted to remove the darkest part along the bottom and/or possibly lighten the dark LLC a bit. I love the texture here.

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I love how some ICM images of one subject leave you wondering just what that subject actually is. What appears to me here is a rock wall with various shades streaking all over it, yet it is a stand of trees as you state. Excellent work with this one Diane.

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Great ICM Diane. ICM photography is a hard style to do. You captured the trees and made this a beautiful interesting image. I love the color and the tone. Congratulations on EP…

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I’m very late getting to this, Diane, but the fall tones really make this work for me.

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Thanks, @patrick6, @framingtheuntamed, @Mike_Friel, @Ted_Forman, @Gill_Vanderlip, @Dennis_Plank! And thanks, @Don_Peters for the EP – what a wonderful surprise! I was out of town a couple of days and only had a minute to pop in with my iPhone but no time to reply until now.

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@Mike_Friel – the bottom edge was a quandary. The right 1/3 was naturally dark but to the left the vertical streaks went off the bottom with no attenuation, and I felt it pulled the eye too much. Certainly an idea worth playing with, though. If I can identify the component images in the filmstrip I might play with a redo – I’m curious to find if I would do things differently today. Since there is no record in layers what I did, it could be interesting.

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