Half-frame Tree
More from a few snowy days on Quadra Island in February. This is my favourite of all the shots on this roll of film. I came as close to a perfect join between the two frames as I am likely to get (I thought I was going a bit too far with the in-camera crop), I like the composition and the brighter light on the snow closer to the ocean.
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These continue my series of half-frame photos from the Olympus Pen. These are all adjacent shots on the film-strip, taken as multiple frames with the intent to scan as single images. Click on the photos to see them larger.
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Olympus Pen half-frame camera, 28mm 3.5 lens, Rollei Superpan 200 film, Gossen Luna-Pro light meter.
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Beautiful! I love this shot. It would look lovely enlarged and hung on the wall of my living room.
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Hi Vicki! I am not sure how much enlargement it can withstand – small negatives, hand held at relatively slow speed. But it might work out.
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I’ve been enjoying your snow series very much, but this might be my favourite one of all. But then, you know how much I like trees!
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Hi Gary. You do great justice to trees. I like this one too – there is something special about this tree.
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I have another combination coming up tomorrow that you will like – trees AND stars.
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I can see why this one is your favorite – it’s a fantastic pair of shots!
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Thanks Melinda! It is of course a very nice tree. But I like how the falling snow (it was really coming down) obscures the distant views and lets the tree and rocks stand totally on their own. If you look closely you can see grey streaks here and there which are the falling flakes blurred a bit. I don’t recall the exposure exactly, but it was quite dark so I think it must have been f3.5 or f4 (wide open for this camera) and 1/50th for sure (my slowest shutter speed).
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The lack of detailed background goes a long way in this shot, proving that against my own instincts, snow DOES serve a purpose!
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It does indeed. Most things do, if you dig deeply enough. It was really very beautiful, and not very cold. I think you would have liked it.
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I don’t mind snow IN THEORY. In practice, though, I don’t like it so much – although your “not very cold” detail makes me think you’re right: I would have liked it!
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Phew – what a relief. I am caught up on comments on my own blog. Now, I must get out there and comment on some of the great posts I have seen go by in the past couple of months. I am so far behind…
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Congratulations on getting caught up!
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That’s superb, Ehpem. I’m impressed with your technical abilities!!
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Hi Karen. As Ken says, practice makes perfect. But, and its a big but, luck plays an important part. In this shot I was concentrating my effort on getting the horizontal join lined up and the alignment of the tree trunk pretty much took care of itself – I remember checking it as a bit of an afterthought.
These diptychs are kind of tricky though – two shots that both have to work on their own, and have to work together as well. And usually I only try once unless I become aware afterwards that I messed up.
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Excellent! practice makes perfect.
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Thanks Ken! I am usually afraid to push it beyond what I think the join is, but obviously I need to more often. And I am coming to the realisation that for a lot of subjects, losing the exact join, and not having clear overlap, actually works better than a bit of overlap on both photos. This one does have a tiny bit of overlap. It could be fun to put the top of one tree on another. I will have to try that sometime, though remembering an alignment could be tricky.
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super!
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Thank you Peter. I have been enjoying your photographs of late, though leaving no tracks behind in your blog (or any others for a while now). I hope to catch up on commenting on other people’s work soon.
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This would have been good as an image without the two-frames idea. But the Diptych adds another level.
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Thank you Andy. I would have needed a very wide lense to get this shot without the diptych approach, or to have stitched together a panorama. I like the way it works as a diptych though. The black line, for some reason, is not a problem at all.
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Maybe the reason the black line is not a problem is that it can read—visually though not logically—as a horizon line.
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That is a very interesting insight Linda. I think you might be right. After all, the horizon is nearly missing in the snow, so a substitute seems natural.
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