Monday, January 4, 2010

2010: Day 4

I made a detour or 2 on the way home from Portland today.  I traipsed through some snow and took a few pictures.  I've not been very happy with my efforts towards figuring out the snow thing.  I wanted to try some more.

Here's another effort with the low dof.  I like the color contrast and the composition with the bridge running diagonal and the water/trees behind.  Nothing pops in the photo, though.



Off hte other side of the bridge I also shot the water plant thingies.  I like the colors and the circles.

I also tried for some landscape shots of the snow.  I went to the golf course and was trying to accurately capture the tones and textures in the snow.  I was using an ND filter and wishing my husband had bought me the polarizing filter I wanted for Christmas.  Turns out that he did,  but I seem to be old and have memory issues and I forgot. forgot. 
In any case all of the land/waterscapes I took were boring and flat and not even a little crisp.  Proof:

and:


See?  Blah, blah blah.  Thoughts?  Ideas?  Suggestions? 

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1 comment:

  1. It's good to read your thoughts on your work. I always appreciate your end result. It's nice to hear your thinking about what you are trying to do and your critique of what worked and what didn't.

    It's going to be a good year and this log of your efforts will serve you well.

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