Photo of a snowbank, at 105mm with the 18-200. Handheld. Manual mode. Shot RAW.
Converted to B/W, adjusted curves. Applied a copy layer with diagonal (line) blur, merged with original in soft light, except in line detail areas (masked). Worked on contrast. Resized, sharpened a tad, saved.
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Thank you, nam for the suggestion to remove the larger white snow sparkles. The updated version:
A beautiful abstract. The tones and soft texture is wonderful. I would never have guessed it as snow, but then again I’ve only ever seen snow a couple of times in my life.
The thumbnail certainly demands opening up :)
Once open it doesn't however disappoint (not a nude) and then is more like a silk gown thrown down. Very smooth and almost abstract. Subtle light playing with the folds. Beautiful. I prefer v2 with the spots removed. Frame it and hang it, in A2.
Like everyone else I think this is beautiful. I had not realised it was snow and still can't quite "see" what it looked like originally. I thought it was fabric with your trusted spoon under the second "fold" giving it its shape :-)
I, too, love the sensuous lines and the flow of light and dark areas. As snow, I love the sparkle. As an abstract, I think I would take out the largest of the little white spots (streaks in full size) if this was mine - no one else mentioned them, but I find them distracting.
I thought fabric at first as well. Seems to exude a life of it's own, revealed and disclosed at the same time, ambiguously recognizable if that makes sense.
Sensuous is a good word for this. Very well done. Almost seems translucent. Love your work and your theme. I'll have to check out the full size viewing button. I've never seen that before here.
Snow and wind can have a wonderful effect. Well captured, and a good choice to make a BW image from it. I cannot judge the scale of what I'm looking at, but when I took pictures this week of the snow (using a 100mm macro, so similar to what you used) I was amazed to discover individual snowflakes just like the textbooks show them.
I didn't use the macro for this, but the 18-200 walkaround zoomed at 105. It's a rather large bank, by the side of a mountain road. Distance to subject is about 10 metres (guessing).
Like you say, it is quite interesting how much detail you can get in snow. I am always surprised at how not smooth snow is, and how many different surface textures it can show. This snow (Thursday) was ratherr granular. By contrast, yesterday's snow was a crystaline surface. F/11 (rather than my often used fully open lens) helps a lot! The hardest thing for me is white balance when it comes to snow! Exposure is also tricky with snow, so I use the sky for metering and the blinkies on the viewer after a test shot or two.
Snow and wind can have a wonderful effect. Well captured, and a good choice to make a BW image from it. I cannot judge the scale of what I'm looking at, but when I took pictures this week of the snow (using a 100mm macro, so similar to what you used) I was amazed to discover individual snowflakes just like the textbooks show them.
I would never have guessed snow on this one. It looks like skin to me ... Maybe a woman's curves but no that can't be it either. ;) It's very pleasing to the eye and I love the tones and textures.
Snow - imagine how many snowflakes have gathered in that bank to create such varying depths. It's so smooth and the shades of blacks & gray invite my eye in - this image has a beautiful sensual quality to it.
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