Thetis Lake II

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Another scene from my recent walk around Thetis Lake; the path we followed. See this link for other shots from this walk.

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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO100, f2.5, 1/125th, processed in Lightroom and Topaz B&WEffects.

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13 thoughts on “Thetis Lake II”

  2. Images like this, that break some of the ‘rules’ just go to show how silly some of the rules really are. There are no rules really. A prominent tree stuck in the middle, burnt out highlights – the sort of things that judges niggle about. All nonsense! This is so evocative of a wood – the bright light you see on the edge that is too bright for your eyes, the peering round close-by trees to the left and the right (like looking at two adjacent frames on a half-frame camera!). It sums up a wood perfectly, Ehpem. Great shot.

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    • Thank you Andy for such a thoughtful comment. I was not really thinking about breaking rules. I actually chose my position to take advantage of a shadow on the lens as lens flare was not what I wanted. I agree about the burnt out highlights and it being too bright for the eyes which is just like being in the woods next to an opening or even more so next to a highly reflective lake.
      And your half frame comment makes me think that would be a fun thing to do – put a tree at the seam between two images. or three, as part of a way to shoot the forest with my Olympus Pen, combine dark trunks with dark between-shot stripes and kind of obscure the fact that it is multiple frames.

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      • Spring is a wonderful idea – both for Thetis Lake, and in general!

        I now have the technology that should make this idea possible. I have been constrained by very slow shutter speeds on this camera and a resulting narrow E.V. range which has meant I have to use slow film if I want to shoot in bright conditions. I have just received a 2 stop ND filter from an on-line purchase which will allow me to have faster film in the camera for the brighter areas and when removed a bit more latitude in lower light conditions. Like this forest. I have another 3 stop ND filter on the way – which will give me even more room to manoeuvre. By my calculations I will be able to use 400 and 800 ISO film with these combinations. I could of course do that without the filters if I chose to only use the camera in low light until all I had run through 72 frames. I don’t think I could stand that right now!

        The other technological advance comes from a very generous fellow blogger who has sent me a very nice light meter which they no longer use. It is very similar to one I used to own and which went missing just in the past 3 or 4 years. This will allow me to take pictures in lower light conditions where I am currently hopeless at estimating exposure.

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    • Hi Malin! I know of your love for trees, so it pleases me that you like this shot.

      I was lucky with the light – it was quite strong from the south, but coming off the lake to the side too and illuminating the parts I was looking at, even though back lit.

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      • I know what you mean. I find it hard to just walk past things that are lit like this.

        The luck is partly that it seems perpetually grey around here right now, but not for the time we were out walking.

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