Toba Textures
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More in my series of aerial shots from my flight up the Toba River.
I was struck by the light and texture in the canopy, especially the valley bottom forests with deciduous trees.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO100, f3.5 to 5, 1/640th to 1/3000th.
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Really interesting shapes and tones captured here Ehpem! Kind of abstract in some ways, yet really fabulous!
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Hi Toad – I am glad you liked these ones. The abstract aspect of them is one of the things that pleases me. An unusual view that our eye doesn’t immediately contextualise, not for long on this one, but enough of a wait, what is that moment to make it interesting.
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Beautiful! I love the first image which reminds me of a big fuzzy jumper!
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Hi Meanderer! Thanks for the comment. A jumper that was full of little sticks and debris and needed combing perhaps?
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Yes – like after one has been outside tending the garden – or has gone for a woodland walk in a jumper one really shouldn’t have worn for such an outing 😉
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Lovely, ehpem. The first is my favourite, it has the most variety of texture and colour.
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Thanks Ashley! Glad you like them. Not a normal point of view, for most of us anyway, so it was quite enthralling to get up there, with good light.
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These are lovely! Can’t decide which one I like best!
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Thanks Laurie – I can’t decide either. A mosaic of all of them is probably what is needed.
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As Joseph says – the colours…….. spectacular.
David.
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Hi David – typically we have muted fall colours on the west coast – this is about as good as it gets. But I like this pallet that nature gives us just as much as the crazed intensity of fall colours on the east coast.
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The colors and detail are awesome. Flying low altitude with a top quality lens?
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Hi Joseph – thanks for the comment! It was pretty low altitude, I had the seat with a small opening window so could shoot a lot without the glass do diminish the quality. The lens is a good one, 50mm and very fast. It was having trouble focussing on this stuff though so at one point I set it to manual and what I thought was infinity. Sadly quite a few of those photos are out of focus, although kind of nice for all of that.
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