Photo of the Week 2024-02-05

 

' once upon a clearing '

' a place to meander '

 

On my Boxing Day foggy morning walk, I detoured to check out 'the clearing', a magical spot that caught and has held my interest since my first romp though the woods of the Revolve Farms property.

It's not an area cleared of all trees, but certainly it's character is very different from the adjacent woods.

The ground is soft, a considerable portion of it is covered in reindeer lichen and moss that feels quiet underfoot. Clusters of juniper dot the spaces between trees, suggesting that you meander your way around. 

 

 

 

 

On this day, the clearing was particularly mystical. Fog and barren trees combined with a limited colour palette to create something special that I attempted to capture in camera and bring to these images with some touches in post processing.
 

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2022-01-10

 

Lynn suggested a trail in the Arboretum for an afternoon outing and as we started along the first boardwalk, I looked back towards the sun, it was white and bright ... at least it was until I remembered to reset my exposure settings on the camera after it's last use, DOH. Still, I liked the high-key look and decided to work with the resulting image.

 

' white and bright '

For this trek, I decided to continue with my desire to utilize ultra-wide angle lenses more, and mounted the fish-eye on one camera. The distortion with this lens, a Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fish-eye CSII, is extreme to say the least and as expected, lines at the edges of the frame were severely curved. Earlier in the week I had been watching instructional videos on photography with wide and ultra-wide lenses and recalled one about "de-fishing" an image in Photoshop. This looked like a decent test candidate for the technique so I decided to see if I could achieve a more natural look (aside from the overexposure).

 

DJE