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.
2 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