Robert Schleif
February 2025 - No Name Given
About the Image(s)
Winter in the Northeast isn't colorful, but occasionally fog adds interesting depth cues to landscapes. This was taken on a wonderful foggy morning a block from where I live using a Canon R5 with a 24-105 mm lens set for 50 mm focal length using an ISO of 2500, at f/18 (I wanted a good depth of focus. Everyone writes that such a small aperture leads to diffractional blurring, but I don't notice such an effect in my pictures.) This is pretty much the image as it came out of the camera except for a slight amount of brightening and a little sharpening.
11 comments posted
A nice image of fog. Fog is super difficult to have it look good in an image.
Cool of you to do a different type of image, but I am missing your gorgeous flower images.
I am not a big fan of dead trees. I'm not sure of the subject here, especially since the side of the first tree and and the tops of the trees are cropped.
I do think you did capture the fog well, I am going to try a small aperture when I next try it, and see if that might be a great secret. Posted: 02/04/2025 03:17:59
Cool of you to do a different type of image, but I am missing your gorgeous flower images.
I am not a big fan of dead trees. I'm not sure of the subject here, especially since the side of the first tree and and the tops of the trees are cropped.
I do think you did capture the fog well, I am going to try a small aperture when I next try it, and see if that might be a great secret. Posted: 02/04/2025 03:17:59
I understand, appreciate, and agree with your comments. The objective of this image may be a bit different however, from what you were thinking. Here, in Western Massachusetts in the dead of winter, not only is there a scarcity of color in the landscape, the deciduous trees are barren skeletons. I wanted to convey the feeling of dead winter in this locale. The actual subject is the row of trees, and by shooting at an angle, the perspective of the trees and the fog were to give depth to the image. I also tried shooting this inclulding all of the branches on all the trees. but shot from the side. This lacked the feeling of depth provided by the perspective and the decreasing clarity of more distant trees. Including all of all the trees but shot from the same position as my submitted image gave too much importance to the first tree and, at least for me, reduced the feeling of depth that I sought.
Don't worry, close-ups of flowers, and other vegetation will return with the Spring. Posted: 02/05/2025 12:50:22
Don't worry, close-ups of flowers, and other vegetation will return with the Spring. Posted: 02/05/2025 12:50:22
I love leafless trees which are not dead. You captured well of winter atmosphere and good color contrast. I would convert this to BW with few adjustments that may better convey 'dead winter'. Posted: 02/08/2025 19:01:37
I love B&W and I'm often seeking to make a B&W from one of my color images. I tried out a number of conversions of this to B&W on your suggestion. Normally I like a B&W image to have some areas of full white and some of total black, with appropriate tonalities between. Allowing the sky in this one to be close to white reduced the sense of fog and the feeling of depth that I wanted. Posted: 02/11/2025 18:51:02
I would add a positive vignette to this image, but that's personal taste. See below. Posted: 02/09/2025 16:56:02
You are right that this image seems to be leaking out the edges. Vignetting helps in this regard. I'll play with the idea, but using mild darkening, barely discerible, of the edges and corners. Possibly appropriate matting would help address the leaking issue. Here's my first attempt at digital matting. Posted: 02/11/2025 19:07:41
Wow, love this latest editing choice! Posted: 02/11/2025 20:19:22
i love both revisions!! Posted: 02/12/2025 05:25:55
Beautiful image! It perfectly captures the mood of a foggy winter morning-I really liked it. Posted: 02/15/2025 02:16:08
It is a beautiful image. I really like the feeling. I try to add two deers on the foggy winter morning with a little bit blue color. Posted: 02/16/2025 13:44:06
Very nice place for the deer. They seem to complete the scene. Unexpectedly, there were more deer in the suburbs of Baltimore than there are here in Western Massachusetts. Apparently the coyotes restrict the deer population here. Posted: 02/17/2025 16:20:18