Bright Leaves Photo

Photographer’s Note

Travelling east on Pocatello Creek Road, you enter some beautiful area, covered with pines, fir and aspen. I came around a curve in the road and saw these beautiful trees, that were so bright in the morning sun, they looked like they were on fire.

I struggled trying to find a pleasing composition, without becoming road kill. A rancher was bringing cattle down the road too, it created for an exciting time.

I exposed to place the leaves on zone 7.5 to try and just keep them from being over exposed, and developed N-1. I used a Wratten G filter which is mid orange in color, which boosted the already bright leaves, and may have darkened the pines some.

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kaychambers (1196) 2004-11-09 0:58

Hi Dana

I first spotted this filtering technique at an exhibition here in Singapore last week, and since then fallen in love with the tones one can achieve using this method.

Nice image you show here, but think it may further be enhanced by including a human element within the frame.

Good job though.

Regards,

Vic, Singapore.

coasties (0) 2004-11-09 4:07

Wow! Great effect.

rage_tm (623) 2004-11-09 5:49

Hi Dana, Nice effect on how you come up with this beautiful image. thanks for sharing.

weiphoto (335) 2004-11-10 0:33

You've capture a feeling of bright morning sunlight to me. I have never figured out how to make those leaves so white, w/o making the background gray. Like how you exposed the neg and used the orange filter to tone down the pines.