I've got an ax, but need to figure out how to strap it to the van, get it through the door and put it in the stand.
Thank goodness we have vaulted ceilings. It's gonna look awesome and comes naturally flocked! It will sure beat our fake job that we have had for over a decade. Each year that thing looks worse and worse.
The world looks lovely under a clean blanket of snow, eh? Yes, it's cold, but oh so pretty!!!
@annied Thank you so much, Annie. I loved the way it look all frosted in snow.
@rangerxenos Where are you when you are home? Get snow there? It's still a novelty to me and pretty. I'm a FL (Orlando) girl and I am making out for lost time and even like to play in it. Scraping windows on cars and having frozen doors is not as amazing, but...
Love how you got the snow so white, instead of gray like so many other snow scenes. Did you do it in post, or manually change the exposure?
I suspect you'd need to keep the house kind of cold in order to retain the flocking.
@bill_fe I think that this came out this way with the settings. It was a lovely perfect weather snow day with blue skies and sunshine. All was great, but for the coldness. Yeah, gray snow and getting it right can be the pits.
@amandal In camera meters are calibrated to read 18% gray. An average determined way, way back in film days with the first in-camera light meters. Most things, like grass, sky, skin tones (for Caucasians) reflect the same as 18% gray. I have a gray card in my camera backpack, but rarely use it, instead, with my digital camera I'll switch to manual mode and increase the exposure until I get white snow. Here's a simple explanation and a work around: http://photonaturalist.net/how-to-get-a-perfect-exposure-of-a-snow-covered-landscape/
Wow, what a gorgeous photo, Amanda. I love this time of the year to see the snow that people post here. Looks like a gorgeous day too. It is raining here. Loving it.
Too bad you couldn't put it in the house with all the snow on it. I mean, wouldn't that be lovely with lights and decorations and snow? Alas. But it is a beautifully shaped tree.
@maggiemae But then we would freeze. I so wouldn't cut this beauty down. Chopping down big lovely trees like this makes me so sad (not that I do it, but...).
Fantastic capture !! Hope your ambitions do not exceed your room space. It is a fact that the tree indoors is always bigger than it looked out in the field.
@countrylassie I assure you, it's quite huge and I'd have to knock a hole in my ceiling. Thanks for the fav on my other shot and follow. Following you back!
Pheewww.....I am so glad to hear that you are not actually chopping down this perfect specimen of a Christmas tree!! It is indeed beautiful, and perfectly flocked!! You could visit it everyday, I guess, and just imagine it full of ornaments!! Thank you for the snow view....I like it from a distance!
November 22nd, 2014
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@rangerxenos Where are you when you are home? Get snow there? It's still a novelty to me and pretty. I'm a FL (Orlando) girl and I am making out for lost time and even like to play in it. Scraping windows on cars and having frozen doors is not as amazing, but...
I suspect you'd need to keep the house kind of cold in order to retain the flocking.