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Snow, Sage, Sky

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October 11, 2008, 03:04:34 PM

Here's another b&w fine art image. Hopefully you're not all tired of these already. I'm kind of on a kick, I guess.

Travis

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Marian Murdoch

Reply #1 - October 11, 2008, 07:36:38 PM

How could I get tired of superb work like this. I was bothered by it at first and then realized the reason was my eye was distracted by your watermark. When I covered that with a white piece of paper, the composition popped.

I love how the snow looks like wave due to the wind erosion, with the contrasting texture of the bushes following along with the curve.

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Ginnypenny

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Reply #2 - October 11, 2008, 09:37:18 PM

Beautiful.
And I would try making your logo grey.

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BobEdens

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Reply #3 - October 12, 2008, 05:30:00 AM

Love the shot. The "wave" is cool. As far as the watermark? disregard anything a photographer** says about not liking it. Its the internet and people here aren't honest. People are going to take it so put a link on it where the people they show it to can find you. If the water mark is that disturbing, I'm sure you would be happy to sell one.

**I've gone from big ugly banner to a big BE in the corner to my current BobEdens.com and not one person other than a photographer has ever said they didn't like them. The rest of society sees it as necessary. I always offer logo free web size images to the models I shoot and they without exception want the web size with the logo.

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Marian Murdoch

Reply #4 - October 12, 2008, 12:18:53 PM

*sticks tongue out at Bob*

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Travis Minnig

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Reply #5 - October 13, 2008, 08:31:41 PM

Thanks for the comments, everyone. I appreciate them. As for the logo, well, it's gonna stay. I may make it smaller or less dark (as Susie suggested), but it's my work, and I think the logo/signature on a work of art is as much the art as the main subject. I won't disagree that maybe it needs to be toned down in some way to make it less distracting. Thanks.

Travis

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jkleb

Reply #6 - October 14, 2008, 05:28:59 AM

Since I doubt you would leave the logo on there when you sell a print of it or hang it on a wall I think it's kind of a moot point. Logos are a web security/promo thing that we have to live with in todays world.

I love this shot. I keep trying to make shots like this and I end up with good tonality and bad composistion, or vice-versa. Stuff like this makes we want to get out and shoot more.

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Mike Hodgson

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Reply #7 - October 14, 2008, 10:27:08 AM

Excellent control of lighting, great composition, beautiful tones and depth.

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Travis Minnig

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Reply #8 - October 14, 2008, 12:28:37 PM

Thanks for the compliments. I found this little gem on the side of a country road. I was driving around in the country looking for deer and elk wintering. There had been heavy snows in the area and the sides of the road had the high banks from the plows. The wind had blown and created these awesome 'waves' over the banks. I'm just a few feet from pavement, just far enough off that there was clean snow. Then I just started walking around it looking for a view that I liked and lighting to show it for what it was. It's one of those times that you know you're looking at something with potential, but you've got to figure out how to put the pieces together so it's interesting to look at.

When I first converted it to b&w, the sage blended into the sky. I made a selection of the sky from one of the layers that still had color, copied it to its own layer (below the conversion layers), and began darkening it until there was ample separation and tonality. I think that without doing this, the image ends up almost flat. Maybe that helps with some ideas for someone, anyway.

Thanks for looking,

Travis

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Marian Murdoch

Reply #9 - October 14, 2008, 01:06:10 PM

I was only saying what the logo caused me to feel, not that it shouldn't be there. Gosh and golly. Tongue

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BobEdens

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Reply #10 - October 14, 2008, 09:31:30 PM

Quote from: wildmaven on October 14, 2008, 01:06:10 PM

I was only saying what the logo caused me to feel, not that it shouldn't be there. Gosh and golly. Tongue

*sticks tongue out at Marian*

part rant part "messin" love you girl you should know that

There is a photographer that spent all morning neck deep in freezing water to get a great photo of an osprey catching a fish. Its been all over the internet with NO credit to him and I get really bent and go off all over anyone who sends me a "cool photos" slideshow that has his work in it.

EVERY photo thats posted on the internet should have some kind of watermark on it.
NO EXCEPTIONS

its too easy to put a watermark on a photo not to do it.

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