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Title: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Andrea B. on August 28, 2015, 03:01:12
Just experimenting.

(1) Impressionistic dawn view from deck of summer house on a very foggy morning.
(2) Non-impressionistic dawn view of Greening Island on a very foggy morning.
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: armando_m on August 28, 2015, 04:34:31
I really like the impresionist shot
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: BobM on August 28, 2015, 04:44:39
I like the serenity of #2.  Very relaxing.
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: John Geerts on August 28, 2015, 08:59:03
Agree.  Impressive, especially Nr. 2

It looks like the combination 28 1.8G with the Df is a successful one?
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Akira on August 28, 2015, 12:39:41
I like the color of #1 and the asmosphere of #2.  Both experiments seem to work.
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Frank Fremerey on August 28, 2015, 12:54:43
The first one is just lovely. It is not so easy to use camera movement during exposure to achieve a pleasing result. I feel you managed this great here.
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Jørgen Ramskov on August 28, 2015, 14:37:10
#1: Not sure it works for me, can't really decide.
#2: Very nice, I would love to quietly sit there, with a cup of coffee and enjoy the silence.
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Andrea B. on August 28, 2015, 17:24:36
Thank you everyone for stopping by and commenting!

John, the 28/1.8G is a perfect match. Very light combo and very easy to use. I used to like 35 as my fav wide-angle view, but recently I've moved to 28 and found a love for it.

Frank, I would almost say that #1 was accidental. I was trying various ways to get impressionistic scenes - multiple exposures, movement, other trickery. Most of them were failures. This one worked, but did not initially appear as though it would until I found that the Df had a good amount of 'headroom' in the highlights.

In the second dawn shot I was (still am !!) unsure that the light/dark masses worked well. The sun was rising directly in front of me. However, the main triangularly shaped mass of light is on the left - leaving darker areas on the upper & lower right. I'm still not sure why the light is like that except to note that the main continental landmass is to the left and the ocean is to the right. Also there is fog off the ocean. So somehow that all combines to create the triangled light.

 
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Anirban Halder on August 28, 2015, 19:02:35
Non-impressionistic view - what a shot. Just live the silky smooth effect!
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Jakov Minić on August 28, 2015, 20:20:04
Andrea, it seems as though you are serious about photography :)
Like the rest, the 2nd image is special.
However when I saw the 1st image on my phone, I thought it was the better one...
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Bruno Schroder on August 28, 2015, 20:31:50
Well, I'm on my phone and the first ones has a very unique appeal.
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: Marco Lanciani on August 29, 2015, 16:45:37
Greening Island is so a beautiful scene, so serene but I like very much also the impressionistic shot.
I've been experimenting for almost 2 years now on abstracts in many ways, moving the camera, hand holding the camera on long exposures or simply over saturating but never creating anything artificially in PS.
I might post something on another thread...
Title: Re: Experiments on a Foggy Day
Post by: rosko on August 30, 2015, 01:37:31

Very nice pair of shots. :)

#1 works very well for me.

My fav is the pic #2 : as said before, inspiring serenity and peace.

I love the opposition between the general blue pastel and the dark green color of the tree as a foreground.

Cheers, Francis.