More Trees

PixelRabbit · Mar 24, 2014

I love shooting trees

This is the latest "reverse panning" shot at slow shutter speeds from the car.

Would love to hear your thoughts, thanks for taking a look!

Dagwood56 · Mar 25, 2014

I like it. I'm wondering if it might be better with just a little less snow in the foreground though. I like the sepia processing too, it adds a little something extra, a kind of warmth, to an otherwise cold and isolated woods.

PixelRabbit · Mar 25, 2014

Thanks Carol

I'm on my iPod and its chopping it off at the bottom of the 3 horizontal lines and it absolutely is better! It makes it more "edge to edge". Good eye

runnah · Mar 25, 2014

Dang you are lazy! At least stop the car before taking a photo.

Derrel · Mar 25, 2014

I don't like it at all. The detail-less snow at the bottom looks like a severe overexposure that was converted to a sepia tone in an effort to mask a mistake. Large, broad expanses of + 255 tones look awful in digital. The trees themselves are not very interesting either.

PixelRabbit · Mar 25, 2014

Thanks R, lol, yeah well Mr Rabbit doesn't like stopping much so I have to work with what I got

lol

D, thanks for your thoughts, I will carry them forward. Often with snow these kinds of shots can blow the snow out and I think you are right that it's blown here, I'm SO over snow! argh!

pixmedic · Mar 25, 2014

I thought "reverse panning" is when the girl is flipped over and the guy.....
ah, nevermind.

this reminds me of an old canvas oil painting.
its strange how some of the trees seem to just "pop" more than others.
I don't mind the blown out snow as much, but some detail at the bottom would have been nice.
I think i find the texture of this picture more interesting that the actual content.

jenko · Mar 25, 2014

I actually think this is really cool.

It reminds me of traditional Eastern landscapes, before Western influence. These paintings were not visually representational, but psychologically representational. They embedded their personal feelings and emotions into the image rather than depicting details and exact appearances. Perspective was flattened, and they used blank spaces on the paper--voids--which was called "the beauty of the blank." Motion was a common theme, as well.

I see your image doing something very similar, but not imitative. You tend to approach subjects in a non-representaional way, which is what makes your work unique and interesting. It is as much a discovery of the subject or object depicted as it is a discovery and insight into your own psychology. In a way, your images are very autobiographical.