Snow Patterns

Fantastic tones!

Comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking - Slade

Coming back to this again, one of the many things I love about this shot is its lack of scale. It could be a mountain ridge or the side of a ditch.

Nice image Aaron. Great textures and tones. I am wondering what it would look like with a red filter to darken the sky. Certainly that would have lent more contrast to the horizon which has a very nice higlight on it. Maybe the lower contrast effect is what you wanted. It's a great image though. Keep it up.

Beautiful image.

Wonderful shot! The tonal scale and the soothing composition are perfect for the subject.

Superb composition in... white and white.

Bill, um... not mine, though I wish it were. I applaud Slade's handling of the shadows. Anything deeper and you would lose this wonderfully bright bouyant atmosphere. This shot, in general, reminds me of an example from Bruce Barnbaum's book.

Thank you everyone for you comments--they really are appreciated.

 

Aaron--thanks again. Most people that see this think it is a mountain (sand dune) if they don't see the title first. In actuality it is just on the other side of a ditch. The main ridge you see in front is maybe 20" away from my lens with the farthest point back being 10 feet. It was just after a heavy snow and windy night.

 

Bill--I do have one where I shot it with a deep orange filter but it really didn't do much for the sky as there wasn't much if any blue. All it did was deepen the shadows in the snow to a point they were difficult to control and keep that sense of light. I tried burning the sky some but considering most of my images--which are very contrasty and somewhat dark--I felt this was a good change to leave things very soft.