Critique welcome. Veteran 365er, 2011 vintage. Only posting occasionally and irregularly now.
I'm an abstract photography enthusiast but not exclusively so.
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This is a picture that does not ask for colour, all the artistic effect is created by the shapes. I like that it is neat enough for the shapes of the trees to remain recognizable but that it is blurry enough to create the poetic atmosphere : you have successfully reached a delicate balance. Having three subjects instead of one adds to the character of the photo. The image is particularly striking when seen on black. I think it could also have worked with the tree line positioned in the lower half of the picture rather than in the upper half.
@netkonnexion Thank you. Erm, I don't really know how much is much processing but the following is what I remember doing:
[This started life as three slices of potato on a light pad - I spotted the tree-like formation in the flesh of the spud whilst preparing a meal and reserved the best examples]
I made a tonal inversion of the slices, tweaked them a bit** to enhance the tree effect, made them b&w then played with the colour balance sliders to get the hint of brown, cloned out the edges of the slices and did a bit of general tidying up with the clone stamp as well.
**can't remember which sliders I used; sorry.
@dulciknit - That's very cool. Actually I really like the lightness of touch here. With something like this it is easy to make it heavy (I tend to make things a bit heavy - witness todays post). But, you are very good with high key stuff at doing just the 'right amount'. I must say the impact is good, but the type of origin is completely different to my expectations. Well done.
Interesting. I have never seen that sort of bronchial tree type effect in potato. I wonder if you sliced it very thinly and left it to dry if it would come out more. Just thinking...
@netkonnexion Thank you!
I've seen other formations but never a tree-like one before. If I had, this or something akin would no doubt have made its way here earlier. :)
These were very thin slices (the recipe calls for a tiled 'roof' of potatoes on the dish; they go cripsy in cooking and are yummy) made with a mandolin on its finest slice setting, but your thought about drying the slices is an interesting one.
That central mass ('tree') is less dense than the surrounding flesh, so it might go darker in comparison. There's one way to find out for sure...
[This started life as three slices of potato on a light pad - I spotted the tree-like formation in the flesh of the spud whilst preparing a meal and reserved the best examples]
I made a tonal inversion of the slices, tweaked them a bit** to enhance the tree effect, made them b&w then played with the colour balance sliders to get the hint of brown, cloned out the edges of the slices and did a bit of general tidying up with the clone stamp as well.
**can't remember which sliders I used; sorry.
I've seen other formations but never a tree-like one before. If I had, this or something akin would no doubt have made its way here earlier. :)
These were very thin slices (the recipe calls for a tiled 'roof' of potatoes on the dish; they go cripsy in cooking and are yummy) made with a mandolin on its finest slice setting, but your thought about drying the slices is an interesting one.
That central mass ('tree') is less dense than the surrounding flesh, so it might go darker in comparison. There's one way to find out for sure...