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Lonesome Oak

ian cameron

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A wee shot from my French holiday taken at twilight whilst wandering over some fields outside Valensole, Provence, France. I was very taken with the sky gradient from indigo through dusky red to burnt amber. In order to give the merest hint of detail in the field I needed to use five stops of graduated filter. This is precisely how it looked to my eyes so I'm delighted with the result. Please view LARGE too. Pentax 67II, 90-180 zoom, 0.9ND + 0.6ND hard grads, f/8 at 90 seconds, Velvia and a lot of pesky mosquitos chewing my bare legs.

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ian cameron

A lonesome oak tree on the brow of a hill outside Valensole, Provence

France. I was very pleased with the twilight gradient in the sky from

indigo through dusky red to burnt amber. Five stops of ND were needed

to retain some hint of detail in the field.

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je.barreto1
A always lovely actor, a tree, under a gorgeous colors range! The simplicity and the proportions game is fine here. Best regards.
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stp
The gradations of color are very beautiful. Interesting that you were concerned about retaining some detail in the field. I probably would have gone for a straight silhouette, but your approach has me thinking about this.
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ian cameron
I think the reason I didn't let it silhouette completely is because there really was a hint of detail visible in the field it was ony the tree itself that was truly without any detail so I opted to stay true to the vision rather than let my camera reduce the field to an entirely black expanse.
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