GaliWalker
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Post by GaliWalker on Sept 23, 2016 4:42:07 GMT -8
Very cool!
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 23, 2016 6:46:17 GMT -8
ukpacker, the fact that the image is inverted explains why I was having trouble figuring it out! Still, I enjoyed it; it's given me an idea for a garden adaptation.
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Post by ukpacker on Sept 23, 2016 9:17:25 GMT -8
You mean your going to put stuff in your garden to view upside down?
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Post by amydiercon on Sept 23, 2016 23:14:01 GMT -8
Excellent photos!
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 24, 2016 8:23:09 GMT -8
You mean your going to put stuff in your garden to view upside down? Possibly, and seriously. There are ways to invert plantings to create more dramatic effect. Or they can be trained to grow down over rock, old concrete steps put in the garden as hardscape. This could be a way to grow beauties that might otherwise be invasive, such as the silver lace vine. But I bet you thought I was going to stand on my head to plant, right?? Some easy growers might even start in stumps and be trained to grow down and spread outward from the stump. It's an easier way to kill a stump that laboriously digging it out or hiring a stump grinder.
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Post by ukpacker on Sept 24, 2016 9:30:16 GMT -8
No i didn't think you were going to stand on your head! maybe use mirrors or something ? But yes i know what you mean, i am not a gardener but the reason the trailing mountain Azalea is prostrate is because it's an alpine hugging the ground as close as possible for a more favourable micro climate, they also have a couple of miniature willows on the mountains that do a similar thing so you might find material among arctic alpines?
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crawford
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Post by crawford on Sept 25, 2016 13:10:19 GMT -8
I'm in awe of the scenes, and equally impressed with your photography skills. You've a fine eye. It is on my bucket list to hit Northern Norway and Finland. You've certainly rekindled my desire to do it sooner rather than later.
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Post by ukpacker on Sept 26, 2016 14:51:47 GMT -8
Thanks for your kind comments, most of the pics were taken on a long hike from the Norwegian coast to the Russian border and back , in good weather the landscapes are awesome the entire way .Don't expect many trails though but cross country is easy if you have navigation skills.
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Post by ashepabst on Oct 4, 2016 6:33:01 GMT -8
Whats it like in the Smoky Mountains this time of year? October's a lovely time to hike the Smokies. though it's drier --our only drier month-- and the streams run lower, the weather is absolutely brilliant. Cool temps, lower humidity (rare for the southeast US), and clear skies --all common in October. as soon as we get our first frosts the foliage should start changing colors soon in the higher elevations.
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Post by ukpacker on Oct 4, 2016 10:03:40 GMT -8
I shall have to make it over there one day, i love hardwood forests but only fragments remain in Europe and what old growth hardwood is left is mostly in a protected reserve in Poland/Belarus. post some photos of the Smokies sometime.
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davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Oct 5, 2016 8:13:04 GMT -8
Nice subject ukpacker at page top, sc13_3497_130.jpg. Good isolation of nicely spread middle ground trees against the background. The diffuse cloud light with a light gray background was key plus there is somewhat brighter illumination right at the trees that on a day like that brings out better color saturation of the green and yellow pine leaves. The foreground fall color of herbs has lots of detail that I also look for in my subjects when making large images.
Also like your next image, sc13_3565_178_2.jpg, that looks maybe like a mid range tele, also in obvious nice diffuse cloud illumination, with middle ground pine trunks providing a window for the nice fall leaf colors and stream pool beyond with a nice light blue gray tone to add some other color.
Further down you found a superb close-up subject, scan_summer_2016_643.jpg, showing a miniature "flat bonsai" tree against a well lichen covered sedimentary rock that has complementary red fall leaves of another species plus some green of what looks like pine leaves? It appears the roots in the crack are also showing moss?
In my own work, my eyes are habitually scanning my near surroundings while I saunter about over landscapes for situations like this. The kind of subject that we old view camera enthusiasts consider real prizes because the frame is on a relative plane that one can tilt/shift the film plane to closely match the subject plane and then use sharpest medium apertures to capture for a really large print.
David www.davidsenesac.com/2016_Trip_Chronicles/2016_Trip-Chronicles-0.html
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gonehiking
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Post by gonehiking on Oct 6, 2016 3:36:11 GMT -8
Thanks ukpacker! I am a Finn, living abroad, and your pics made me miss home!
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GaliWalker
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Post by GaliWalker on Oct 6, 2016 4:08:48 GMT -8
post some photos of the Smokies sometime Two from last year, taken about this time of year:
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Post by ukpacker on Oct 6, 2016 11:47:33 GMT -8
Beautiful Ruby jewels of light.
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Post by ukpacker on Oct 6, 2016 12:16:51 GMT -8
Lots of amazing pictures Dave, i have never heard of focus stacking before and i find your results astonishing, to be able to achieve view camera like results from the little A6000 ! well what would Ansell Adams have thought about that. I think it works especially well with the close ups of flowers , so real that some pictures look surreal. I assume you use Photoshop, i am a Lightroom user myself which does not offer focus stacking so i shall try one of the plug ins. Can you recommend one that works well with Lightroom?
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