Haru Nagasaki
January 2025 - Foggy Morning
About the Image(s)
This is taken in this autumn at foggy morning.
I wanted to capture Japanese art atmosphere.
I would appreciate your comments. And welcome your idea to improve.
Nikon Z8 @ 185mm f16 0.67sec ISO100 Tripod.
2 comments posted
Hi Haru. Happy New Year! Sorry that you didn't get any comments last month, so thank you for offering us a second try at providing thoughts. I'm glad to start!
I love the subtle mood that your image imparts. To me it feels very peaceful, while at the same time very delicate. I think you've done a great job of preserving a lot of detail while using a very low contrast rendering. You've also avoided cooling the temperature down which would give it a more melancholy feel.
While I love the feel overall, I think the balance is off a bit. It lacks a little bit of the harmony you would hope for. I also always feel like images with two of anything can be difficult - one or three trees would be my choice generally. I don't know that two can't work, but it seems harder. Finally, a small thing, there are some small branches sticking up at the bottom. I'd just clone those out.
I played with a whole lot of different cropping approaches, looking for something that I felt was balanced. Below is what I like best. In that I also pushed the high key look a little further to get a bit cleaner whites. And then I warmed the darks up a little bit which I felt brought a little more life into the major tree trunk. I am not sure these changes are keeping with the look you are after, but some things to think about. As I've said before, I love the images of subtle beauty that you bring to the group.
Posted: 01/15/2025 01:29:52
I love the subtle mood that your image imparts. To me it feels very peaceful, while at the same time very delicate. I think you've done a great job of preserving a lot of detail while using a very low contrast rendering. You've also avoided cooling the temperature down which would give it a more melancholy feel.
While I love the feel overall, I think the balance is off a bit. It lacks a little bit of the harmony you would hope for. I also always feel like images with two of anything can be difficult - one or three trees would be my choice generally. I don't know that two can't work, but it seems harder. Finally, a small thing, there are some small branches sticking up at the bottom. I'd just clone those out.
I played with a whole lot of different cropping approaches, looking for something that I felt was balanced. Below is what I like best. In that I also pushed the high key look a little further to get a bit cleaner whites. And then I warmed the darks up a little bit which I felt brought a little more life into the major tree trunk. I am not sure these changes are keeping with the look you are after, but some things to think about. As I've said before, I love the images of subtle beauty that you bring to the group.
Posted: 01/15/2025 01:29:52
Thank you, Robert, for your comments and attempts.
I wanted to balance the two trees by distance and tone. But it sounded like it did not work for you.
Your idea of cropping the top would work better, it cuts complication of the first tree. It made it simplified.
Thank you again for your comments. Posted: 01/19/2025 02:56:58
I wanted to balance the two trees by distance and tone. But it sounded like it did not work for you.
Your idea of cropping the top would work better, it cuts complication of the first tree. It made it simplified.
Thank you again for your comments. Posted: 01/19/2025 02:56:58