Welcome woodsider, Nice to see you here on the Weekly Landscape Thread.
Great result. It certainly has a painterly feel to it. It does remind me of a Turner.
Lots of depth , from the warm colours in the foreground all the back to the cold snow covered white mountains.
The intentional movement gives a few extra „brushstrokes“
Nice shot! The colourful green/red foreground nicely balances the blue mountain, sea and sky. Lots of layers here.
Interesting to see the details of the houses up on top of the midground rocky cliff. Would have been good to see a bit more of the sea on the right.
The thin band of clouds in front of Mount Teide looks good.
Busy nature
Quick grab shot from a hike last fall.
There is a lot happening in this capture...
This was in July of 2023. Our first stop on our drive out West was at a lodge on top of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. We drove down to the little town of Shell the first afternoon after we got back from our morning of shooting. We passed Shell falls and pulled in. Fortunately the forest service has nice facilities there with platforms - otherwise no way to really photograph it. It on the West slope so it was and the Western sun was not producing very good lighting. The second day I randomly down to the falls again about mid morning and again too late. On our way out heading to our next destination - the Togwotee pass area for a couple days - and knowing when the sun rose, we headed out about 4 to 4:30 and hit the Falls in time for sunrise. When the sun peaked over the Eastern ridge - that was it.
Yes and yes. The spray picking out the vertical drop and the lighting on the top (which also brings out the tree and enough white foam on the lower water to give detail below.
Outstanding.
Impressionism and the theory behind it has always appealed to me. IMNHO the theory is equally valid for photographs. I don't see it as copying a painting style but rather as an acknowledgement of how the brain sees and processes images. ie., I don't think of ICM as creating brushstrokes.
But I certainly see the colours as JMW Turner.
Agreed. I don't use ICM to creat 'brushstrokes', but more as an interpretation of my 'mind's eye' and the way my brain/emotion responds to a scene.
Agree too "brushstrokes" was perhaps not the right word, there is however something painterly produced in the result of ICM.
A frosty study in Blue
this is a series of pictures I took on a particularly frosty day, walking along the train tracks and river running parallel.
That day there was a beautiful interplay of the harsh black lines and edges of the trees against the soft brushes of fog and the obscured mountains in the back.
Camera: Mobile Phone: Xiaomi Redmi 13 5G
ISO125, 6.19mm (eq. 58mm) 1/2500s f/1.65
A little bit later the fog started disappearing and the sun started bringing out the harsher edges of the mountain. Here the frosty trees against the dark background look soft.
Camera: Mobile Phone: Xiaomi Redmi 13 5G
ISO100, 6.19mm (eq. 42mm) 1/2500s f/1.65
But the frost also looked super pretty from up close. Makes even the shrubbery next to the train tracks into something special.
Camera: Mobile Phone: Xiaomi Redmi 13 5G
ISO160, 6.19mm (eq. 23mm) 1/1250s f/1.65
La Pland
These are beautiful. I'm immediately reminded of one of my very favorite paintings, Caspar Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, except that the Wanderer is taking the picture rather than posing for it. The visual effects are so similar - the vast wildness of the mountains below the viewpoint, the rocks, the snow, the carpet of fog that is draped over them. Awe inspiring and timeless like that 200 year old painting.
It is all three. I like the effect you created by shooting from behind the screen of young trees and grasses rather than fighting through for an opening, though that might have also produced a nice image. It is like looking through lacework, and it would not have worked so well in color.
It is in full color, just weather was that gray :)
This must be viewed full size to be properly appreciated! The powerful surge of the water, the way the light plays over the rocks then creates rays with the mist, the pine tree clinging to the precipice - all components of the drama. Nicely managed conversion that maps out the composition using lights and darks so our eyes move around the frame. I have always looked for these components when photographing powerful waterfalls, but seldom find all the pieces. I haven't been to this one but wish I had!
Oh my, what a gorgeous piece of photographic art! I love the work of Turner, especially his brilliant use of light. I'm in the midst of a re-read of Wilton's Turner and the Sublime, and have tried to incorporate some of those elements into the digital painting that I dabble in, but have never thought to try ICM as a means to achieve it. Of course I don't have any grand landscapes to try it on where I live, but I'm fascinated with that idea. What you've created does indeed remind me of his use of light in his landscapes.
Looks like you're new around here! Welcome to our village, hope you'll hang around. Those first two are lovely things. The blue tones are perfect for the wintry scene, emphasizing the cold and bringing out the sparkly nature of the ice.
The juxtaposition of warm and cold is very effective here. Love how the sun is cradled in the curve of the snow-laden branch.
Has anyone done studies on how the circumstances where we live influence how we respond to images? Where I live, today's temperature is closing in on 39C and tomorrow we are promised 42C.
Fireplace 33, I'll turn these into screensavers and just look at them for a couple of days and I'll feel better.
