Forestry Road
This forestry road crossing over a creek makes for a very nice fliptych, giving a strange feeling of a stream. It too is from the Port Renfrew visit of a couple of weeks ago, click here for more shots from this trip. This location is near to the trails into “Avatar Grove” the site of an environmental campaign to save some large old growth trees. We walked along the trail for a way and it was nice to see some of the trees – but it was too dark for the Olympus Pen (and I had no tripod with me).
I can’t make up my mind if I like the colour or the black and white better, so you get them both. I lean towards the black and white, it makes the image a bit more mysterious I think. The slightly different horizontal alignment (more bridge approach in one than the other) also happens to work really well here, though not intended. It’s hard enough getting the vertical alignments to match – nailing both is pretty tricky.
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This is an in-camera diptych taken with the intention of scanning adjacent frames on the negative as a single image. Click on either image for larger versions.
I only noticed the dust/hair in the sky after I finished preparing this last night, well after my bedtime, and too late to redo. I will clean it up some other time.
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Olympus Pen, Half Frame, 28mm lens, Fujicolor Superia 200, ISO200.
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Another nice one here, Ehpem! There is a strong sense of movement, to me, with the two shots. (You know which one I prefer, so I won’t even bother mentioning it….)
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Hi Melinda – another vote for bnw I see!
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The black and white works better for me. It does seem more mysterious.
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Thanks Ken – b&w seems more graphic too. I could easily see this shape simplified into a logo. Perhaps it already is one and that, subconsciously, is part of the interest? I thought I would right-click and search for visually similar images in google just to see what comes up – they need to do a lot of work on that algorithm! In b&w there are quite a few “visually similar” pictures of musicians with their instruments (guitars and saxophones) and of body builders, or people sitting with legs curled under them on a couch. For the colour one it is a lot of grungy colour with violence being one theme. No logos though.
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Very cool indeed! I’m leaning towards the B&W image.
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Hi David – glad you like it. The B&W seems to be getting the vote. The colour seems to distract from the unexpected central shape.
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I like the way the road has made an interesting shape with the two exposures. I am enjoying this series of images very much.
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Thanks Ben! This is an instance where I thought the shape might be interesting, but while I could conceptualise it, I could not visualise it (if you see the difference I am struggling for). The way it actually worked out was much better than I anticipated.
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Often it’s hard to give up on the exciting colors (at least in my experience) that always want too much of our attention, but the black and white here makes for a really cool image. The bw diptych as a whole gives a strong feel of that area’s scenery. The colored version doesn’t have that impact.
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Good Morning Joseph. You are right about giving up on colours, but often I click the convert button just to see what potential there is, or in LR hover over one of the black and white presets to see a b&w preview. The orange/red fliptych from a couple of days ago would work graphically if the orange were a dark grey, but there is no way I am ready to let go of that colour yet.
What I miss in the black and white version of this shot is the red tinges from the alders lining the road which are an important part of the feel of this area at this time of the year. I suppose I could put them back in.
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Hah, bringing a color back into the bw changes the impact of the image again. I am mostly not a fan of real color added to bw, but bringing back a tinge of that red on those branches might just turn the photo into a million dollar image. I like to see it if you can make it work.
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Hi Joseph – it is a plan. However, I am up island for the rest of the week and separated from my computer, so it is something I will have to try later.
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