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Alex
02-08-2009, 01:26 PM
Here are two very different images on the same theme, very different techniques/technologies, very different weather/time of the day. Also, the first one suffers from the scanning unfortunately.

http://www.imagevault.eu/tpb/ontario97_126.jpg

http://www.imagevault.eu/tpb/6130.jpg
Karissa
02-08-2009, 02:50 PM
Suffers from scanning. I rather like the first one. Looks like something that would go great framed above my bed. Love the first one! Btw, if you are amateur I don't want to know what I am. :S
Alex
02-08-2009, 03:17 PM
Suffers from scanning. I rather like the first one. Looks like something that would go great framed above my bed. Love the first one! Btw, if you are amateur I don't want to know what I am. :S

Thanks, I myself very much prefer the first one in terms of composition and mood.

This was taken in early morning at a remote lake in Algonquin Park, ON.

I have no idea what you are ;)
Tangerini
02-08-2009, 04:59 PM
Both are lovely, but I agree the first has a nicer composition and mood.
(Dare I ask if you have spring and summer versions as well?)
Alex
02-08-2009, 05:20 PM
Both are lovely, but I agree the first has a nicer composition and mood.
(Dare I ask if you have spring and summer versions as well?)

you may ask,. .. but I only have these two versions, both autumn/fall
Terri
02-08-2009, 05:23 PM
Alex, talk to me about the top one...it's so ethereal, I just can't take my eyes off it. It looks like film grain, or am I just seeing mist?
Alex
02-08-2009, 05:46 PM
it is film indeed ...
Antarctican
02-08-2009, 09:55 PM
Another vote for that first shot! I love the muted colours, and the way my eye searches the mist to see more trees. Beautiful
Terri
02-09-2009, 09:38 AM
it is film indeed ...Well, my sweet, if that image were mine it would probably be framed and hung over the couch. I'm absolutely smitten with it - colors, composition, it really is a standout.

Wonderful work. :salute:
PhotoJet
02-09-2009, 02:58 PM
I am throwing my vote in with the others! That first one is just gorgeous with the hushed mood it sets. Makes me want to type quietly.

I spent time almost every summer at Algonquin Park! My Mom's Uncle was a park ranger there & her Aunt baked for the lumber camp. I have not been there in years, though.
Alex
02-09-2009, 03:21 PM
Hmm, people really seem to like that very first one :)

Thanks.
Terri
02-09-2009, 05:39 PM
Hmm, people really seem to like that very first one :)

Thanks.It's kind of fun when you get really enthusiastic response to something you may not have viewed as particularly special, eh? I bet you considered it just part of your theme on this special area. By happy accident you actually came away with an exceptional shot. ;)
Alex
02-10-2009, 01:30 AM
It's kind of fun when you get really enthusiastic response to something you may not have viewed as particularly special, eh? I bet you considered it just part of your theme on this special area. By happy accident you actually came away with an exceptional shot. ;)

I would prefer to call it satisfying ;)

I put way more effort into the first one, I know it has a more interesting mood, composition is more interesting (although simple).
Just often people do not realise this ;)
Also I did more images on that morning, which have a similar mood, but appear more 'ordinary'.

As for the second image, I was just too late at the scene, 30 minutes earlier the light would have been my friend on that one. I only added that second image because when I wanted to post the first one, I wondered if I had any similar image in my collection ;)
Arch
02-10-2009, 04:25 AM
Both are great, although i prefer the slightly 'Twin Peaks' look of the first ;)
Terri
02-10-2009, 09:15 AM
Both are great, although i prefer the slightly 'Twin Peaks' look of the first ;)
Ooo! Good call, there. :thumbup:

Alex: I gotcha. :)
Karissa
02-10-2009, 12:58 PM
Also I did more images on that morning, which have a similar mood, but appear more 'ordinary'.


Can we see some of the others?
Alex
02-16-2009, 11:29 AM
Can we see some of the others?

Maybe later, if i find the time to dig out the scans ... but they are not too spectacular anyway.
MissMia
02-19-2009, 03:47 PM
The first one is gorgeous! It also gets my vote.
Alex
02-19-2009, 04:37 PM
Thanks :) democracy seems very pleasant in this case ;)
Christie Photo
02-19-2009, 05:47 PM
Hmm, people really seem to like that very first one :)

I was a bit stunned. Truely.

I can sense the stillness.

Very nice.
Alex
02-24-2009, 12:21 PM
I can tell you , the scene was also stunning when I stood there in early morning. This was at the beginning of a hike north in Algonquin. I was so glad I had no companions, since their chatting would have killed the mood ;)
Chiller
02-25-2009, 07:21 PM
What a beautiful view. Im diggin the first one as well. Excellent stuff man.