Autumn Leaves

Post by **jewel** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:57 pm

Superb and imaginative photos, and so evocative of the season........and a very huggable tree if I may say so grandad

( is anyone else a "tree hugger"?

Post by **Lisak** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:39 pm

jewel wrote:Superb and imaginative photos, and so evocative of the season........and a very huggable tree if I may say so grandad ( is anyone else a "tree hugger"?

I must admit, I have hugged a tree or two in my time Jewel and very nice it is too!

Post by **Grandad** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:36 am

Not wishing to detract this thread from its original theme I have added some notes, in response to comments, on the photography thread.

Post by **Horus** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:20 am

Grandad mentioned 'Dodging & Burning' on one of his pictures and we have a discussion going on the Photography 3 thread about using this technique.

However I thought that the Autumn leaves thread was a good place to show these two pictures that I have given some extreme treatment so as to enhance the colours in a very vivid way. They belong to the second set of pictures that I posted above and the Fern one in particular shows the colour variations that really do exist in all the muted browns and yellows of the original pictures. The blues are the result of taking the 'burning' technique to an extreme

Ferns

The Small Lake

Post by **Grandad** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:36 pm

JOJO, Dodging and Burning was something we used to do under the enlarger lens in the old roll film days. We used our hands, fingers and paper card cutouts to hold back areas that were over exposed (Dodging), and increase the exposure of areas that were under exposed (Burning).

It is much easier with digital because if you don't like the result you can undo it. Couldn't do that with sensitive papers.

Here is the before and after of my Oak Tree. I Dodged the left side of the trunk and the branches which were too dark, and Burnt the sunlit area to bring back more of the detail in the carpet of leaves. I also softened the white fence that was too strong in the original. I DID also boost the saturation a bit....

These adjustments are usually quite subtle to just improve the range of colour or tones. I hope you can see the difference, things don't always transfer very well.

I agree with Horus ref The Gimp. Can't do layers but you can do most other things and it's a freebie.

Post by **jewel** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:08 pm

Interesting effects.....I tend to like softer more natural colours though than the enhanced colours, although been having a play with this wee squirrel eating nuts on the tree.........I dont think after these 80MPH winds we are having tonight there will be any leaves left on the trees!!

Now that will make beautiful pictures.....frost and snow on trees