The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
One of these days I hope to put together a project of fog dancing on the walls of the Columbia River Gorge. I’ve posted others in the past, but was inspired by this weeks theme to add another.
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For me, fog/clouds add such a mysterious mood. Although the noise of I-84 was in the background when I took this, isolating to the visual sense and converting to black and white hopefully conveys the spirit of this weeks theme. How does the image translate for you? Does it speak to silence?
Technical Details
Camera: NIKON Z 7_2
Lens: NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR
Focal length: 200mm
Shutter speed: 1/13s
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 64
Definitely says silence to me. The large version is a real treat for the eyes as one can wander around the frame savoring all those details of the trees in varying shades of obscurity. I particularly liked the way you framed this with the FG fog, then the partially hidden trees giving way to those in the BG as they fade away into the fog. I also quite like that slightly brighter section of FG fog as it gives the viewer the perfect place to start exploring the image. This is moody and mysterious; I can almost feel the cool dampness of the fog. I hope you do put together that project and share it with us.
John: A great image from one of my favorite places on the planet. When I first graduated I went in the Air Force but in 1974 I took and passed the Oregon Boards thinking that one day I would love to live there. Alas it never panned out but I still have that framed certificate. Beautiful rendition of a beautiful place.>=))>
I don’t hear the traffic at all, John. In fact, I can imagine a world in which man doesn’t exist while looking at this image. I love foggy scenes like this. They always seem to impart a sense of damp, of cold and a quietness. This image is triggering all of those for me. I’m feeling a little bit cold letting my eye wander through forest while looking at this image. It reminds me of our adventures in Yosemite with all of the fog we had. This feels like another world. Maybe even a little bit eerie for me like a place time forgot.
The thick fog below gently guides the viewers eye to the background tree forms. You’ve framed this nicely with another slightly darker layer of fog above and behind the trees creating a veiled window into this other world.
This another beautiful image from a beautiful place and I think it’s a great idea to put together a project for these foggy scenes on the river.
Definitely speaks of silence. I think also, at least for me, there is a primordial mood to this; something mysteriously ancient about this. Almost as if the forest is speaking. I thought for a second you caught this on the Yosemite trip, but I guess not! The rising mist/fog intermingling with the forest is wonderful.
Of course a matter of personal preference, but have you tried boosting the luminosity? Not quite to high-key results, but perhaps just a little less gray? I dunno, just a thought.
As nature and landscape photographers I think we all have this idyllic notion of nature and how beautiful it is. This photo speaks volumes to me about that idea. And yes, the natural world is exquisite, sublime, and down right gorgeous, but its also dangerous, merciless, and favors the strong. I want to be there among those trees without having to worry about freezing, or being exhausted trying to climb the steep mountain side they live on, or watching out for a widow-maker branch falling on my head. I love the natural world, it brings me great solace and yet keeps me on my toes. Sometimes the quietest places (or scenes of those places) speak the loudest. This photo is yelling really loud.
This is beautiful John! I can hear the quiet through this image. The Columbia River Gorge has so many gifts to give the alert and watchful nature photographer. I’m looking forward to your project of fog dancing on the walls of the Gorge.
John I’m not going to say anything you haven’t read above. Yes, it implies silence and solitude to me. I also see the mystery as mentioned above. It reminds me of one of those scenes where a space traveler first comes into the atmosphere of another planet, it looks full of life but what lurks beneath the mist.
Ahh this is glorious. Fog is funny to me with the fact that it seems to resonate, distort and even magnify sound sometimes. Bird calls and footsteps lose their directionality as easily as one can lose one’s way in it. It’s enveloping and seems like it should all be hushed, but sometimes it isn’t and that’s one of the magically mercurial aspects that keeps us going back to it. I really like the perspective here, looking down into a view we don’t normally get to see.
John, this definitely says silence and mystery. While both posts show off the clouds and partly hidden trees very well, I think that the original (darker) version say’s mystery and quiet better.
I am still loving the original post as it just oozes so much mood and mystery. There is certainly nothing wrong with the revision, but I find it to be more light and airy.
