Frost & Fog

Low clouds or high fog -- I'm not sure of the difference, but it was certainly

a "dull" day. I tried this in B&W and decided I like the soft pastel colors,

especially in the background. Your comments and suggestions are

appreciated. Thanks.

Attached is a B&W version for comparison.

I also prefer the colour version.  Apart from the fact that the colours are just more aesthetically pleasing, I also think they communicate the sense of the bitter coldness to a greater degree. I also think the frosted branches of the trees are more apparent in the colour version.  The B & W version appears a bit flat by comparison.

Nice work Stephen!

 

Best Regards

 

Alf

Hi Stephen- Soon as I opened this fine image I felt, "Oh, this is very nice", a perfect scene to sit back,relax & enjoy a visual pleasure. Have always believed soft muted colours &soft focus have a relaxing effect on the viewer, the soft curved line of the hill in the background is very pleasing. Your image invokes in myself an emotional response of pleasure to sit & relax & enjoy the softness of this fine image. Of course, this is just me.Best Regards_Ross

This is a beautiful image, a fine combination of the bare essentials, lines, forms and colours. The only thing I would be tempted to try is to crop out a little more of the empty sky and go for an even more elongated panoramic effect. That might just add a touch more tension, I don’t know. Best regards.

I looked large view and before I read some opinions here my feeling of a cold winter day with nice frost is what also Alf said.I like me too more this color version that has a bigger visual impact,huge space back of this trees,with hills in mist gives a nice dimension.

Hello Stephen: I believe it is good that you posted both images for comparison, as in my opinion they convey totally different moods. The one in color has a very pleasing and subtle bluish hues, and a sense of utter isolation. Gorgeous landscape. The one in BW is also very interesting, and for that version, perhaps some graduated darkening of the background could produce an enhanced effect, humbly and with all due respect. Both great, as all of your work.

Kind regards.

DG

Hi Stephen,  I really like the low contrast color version.  The soft textures are interesting, and the blending of the land with the sky, with just the right amount of definition, adds a pleasant vastness.  Also, the color communicates cold.  One of the assets I notice in your images is that they are artistic without being over saturated.   Larry

Thanks to all of you for your comments.  Daniel suggested something that I've applied to another photo currently posted but I had 't thought of applying it to this one in the B&W version, and that's a graduated darkening of the sky.  Good idea.

 

Something else occurred to me as I was reading your comments, and that would be to try a photo without the trees -- just the flowing and intersecting pastel-colored hills for a much softer photograph, one that would help a person get to sleep at night (kidding!).  These hills are the base of the Blue Mountains, and they go for miles; I'll bet somewhere along that length in a given density of fog I might be able to find a composition that has good lines and colors that would stand on their own, without any interruptions of shrubs or trees.  Anyway, it has given me something to think about as I desperately search for compositions in this huge agricultural area. 

 

Thanks for all of your thoughts.

The most difficult subject to photograph, specially in a dark, flat diffused light, the frost. Most of the time, it is not working. What our eyes can see, the cameras today never able to record it, never mind the 3 dim effect what our brain is producing to you. You see white frost all over on everything, and you get a photograph of muddy grey.  Oh. Forget about the color. The only time you can photograph frost, in a nice sunny day. But, you have a very short chance, before the sun melting a way the frost.

Cheers