Mutations on the Forest

I like this shot a lot. A tiny little bit more negative space at the top of the image would be my only critique to a superb effort. It is the kind of pic that I could stare at for hours and see something new.

Edmund, thank you so much for your insightful comment. Very helpful indeed.

fabulous imagery Anabela!! I really like your creative thoughts expressed in this composition. Well done!

Like the effect. Nice & stark.

Love the colour against the stark blacks. Works really. well seen and executed, best wishes William.

A very artistic and creative work, in excellent taste and blend of colors. Decorative and attractive.

DG

Very original composition! I love it! best regards! Max

Anabela.  You know that I love this.  The motion would be enough for me but the color adds an interesting counterpoint and elevates the surreal mood.  Very cool.  Dana...

Very nice and original work, Anabela!

lovely work Anabela...the red leaves are a nice compliment to the other tones and shapes...regards....David

Interesting. I would like to see the original and know more about how it was done. I don't know that I'd technically call this a 'photo' as much as I'd call it 'digital art.' Not sure I like the side trees cropped at the top or would rather see the entire tree - leaning toward wanting to see the entirety. Certainly is an attention-grabber.

It looks to me, Bill, that Anabela utilized vertical panning when she took this photograph. I like the effect and, better still, the use of selective color. Also, I think the composition is interesting, resulting in the trees toward the sides lining up and pointing toward the middle.

Possibly Michael, but then there'd have to be two separate exposures to keep the leaves from panning. It does look like this was taken by a body of water, with the trees reflecting into it.

A lot of the effects appearing throughout Anabela's portfolio seem to me created in Photoshop or a post processing program.

The image is a composite, as you cannot pan vertically and have those tree tops sharp. I suppose the vertical pan could have been done in pp with the treetops masked but I do not think so.
All of the treetops are in fact the same treetop. It has been resized, trimmed and flipped horizontally to appear, at a casual glance, to be different. If you look at the one in the upper left corner you can see where it is pasted over the background. You can see through it to the background layer. Perhaps the background was duplicated and put both above and below the treetops as they seem in some places to be in front and in others behind.
All of this aside, it clearly looks like something that has been pasted together. I suspect that I might have liked the background image.

Good observations 'End.'

I love this image. I've been playing with camera movement and I'd love to know just how this was done to keep the treetops so clear. Happy if it's all photoshopped too.

Wouldn't it have been possible for the red treetops to have been added in postprocessing to an image originally created by vertical panning?

It's interesting, I suppose, but does little for me. I agree this is digital art, not really a photograph in the conventional sense. I think the title should be ...in the Forest for better English. The image doesn't really appeal to me as a presentation of forms and color I'm afraid, but one can't like everything. I find myself unable to comment further.

Yes.

First of all, sorry about the late response to this thread, but I have been travelling and not so much online.

Thank you to each and everyone of you for pondering on this image.

The image is a composite of two photos background/red leaves. The background photo was taken while on a train journey across Siberia and it came out almost like the panning effect, I just added a bit of blur in Photoshop. My inspiration for this composite was the mutations in the forests, due to radioactivity (the so called "Red Forest"), hence my addiction of the red leaves from another photo.

Robin, about the title …on the Forest (canopy)…

Again, thank you very much indeed. Anabela

It is quite acceptable to discuss how this image was made, just as a chef might receive many questions and conjectures about his recipe of a terrific rhubarb mousse that is sitting yet to be eaten on a table, to which several guests are invited.

The pleasure there is in the eating. The pleasure here, which seems to be somewhat overlooked, is in the looking and perception of the viewers. While I am a bit impressed by the use of collage, Photoshop, separate panned image and whatever on the technical side, I prefer to look at the image (which is probably the photographer's aim) and absorb it as just that. It is a pretty (or at least "interesting") wallpaper image which is cold in tone (despite the red) and which doesn't reflect much of an idea of forest to me.

A framed work that might have a good place in in Bluebeard's Castle is one feeling I get. It doesn't make me laugh, cry, marvel at the composition, or lower my jaw in surprise. I want to find something in it that expands my feelings or insight, but am at a loss to see that. Of course this is a very subjective take on the image as a communication. I admire at least the desire of the photographer to present something different and her capability to craft whatever she had in mind. It just doesn't hold much intrigue for me (as a viewer).

Anabela, I just saw your post and can understand the importance for you in regard to Chernobyl, Siberia and radioactivity and the very specific use of the word "mutations" which overexposure to nuclear radiation can certainly produce. In that context the photo would likely be good as part of a series of images on the same subject that explained the context and the use of the redness and bleakness.