Sunday, October 01, 2006
River Otter
Early morning on the banks of the River Otter in Devon in late September.
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I think that this is a good example of how black and white can sometimes distil a scene better than colour can. This is the English landscape. No it doesn't look like this, but then again, yes it does.
I like the way that the tones split this into foreground and background with the dividing line at the bend/narrows. The lower dark tones give an anchor to the shot which allows the bright misty parts to float free.
John - I'm seeing something in the brightest part of the river towards the back which might be a compression artifact - or is it just rising mist? It is a very demanding area for tones - maybe it is this laptop screen?
A message from an internet cafe in Bratislava, which is really smart: drinking Becherovka over a laptop with some rock music that I can't identify going on in the background!
Auspicious - mist rising; not artefacts.
I had to reread your caption when I couldn't find an otter in the picture ;-)
I'm afraid I need a better monitor for this as well. I'm imagining that the light was fairly subtle, and it just isn't translating on screen. I'm on an old, small CRT with tons of distortion at the moment.
This is a beautiful play of light and dark. There seems to be a flow of light from the left to the right through the mist.
A wonderful photograph. I've seen and taken 'similar' where the mist hides so much of the landscape that it loses its ethereal nature. You've managed to keep the mist, the distance detail and the texture in the dark earth in the foreground.
PS. This photograph has the dubious honour of being the first from this group that I have viewed with my first pair of glasses ever. I was blind, now I can see (and I didn't even know it).
So, who's going to help me resharpen all of my images?
John-Jo - I sympathize over the glasses. It happens to most of us.
Good or bad monitor, this does lose a bit by being reduced even if the tones stay reasonably true. Colour or b/w? A tough call: both have merits!
Auspicious - this is the first time that I had been here and whilst it is Devon all around, this particular square mile or two could be elsewhere.
I'm enjoying the mood this picture provides the viewer. Everthing is point towards top left corner which has a pleasant brightspot. Perhaps a little more contrast in this area would further emphasise things. I was wanting something of interest in the rivers towards the middle of the shot. However, after many views of this shot, I'm convinced that I'm seeing ghostly shapes in the mist which are much more fullfilling!
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I like the way that the tones split this into foreground and background with the dividing line at the bend/narrows. The lower dark tones give an anchor to the shot which allows the bright misty parts to float free.
John - I'm seeing something in the brightest part of the river towards the back which might be a compression artifact - or is it just rising mist? It is a very demanding area for tones - maybe it is this laptop screen?
Auspicious - mist rising; not artefacts.
I'm afraid I need a better monitor for this as well. I'm imagining that the light was fairly subtle, and it just isn't translating on screen. I'm on an old, small CRT with tons of distortion at the moment.
PS. This photograph has the dubious honour of being the first from this group that I have viewed with my first pair of glasses ever. I was blind, now I can see (and I didn't even know it).
So, who's going to help me resharpen all of my images?
Good or bad monitor, this does lose a bit by being reduced even if the tones stay reasonably true. Colour or b/w? A tough call: both have merits!
Auspicious - this is the first time that I had been here and whilst it is Devon all around, this particular square mile or two could be elsewhere.