I must have taken hundreds of photos of this particular formation. I’ve come at it from every angle, in many different types of light. I’m not sure what I am searching for, and I’m not sure this is it, but I feel good about this one.
Now back to work I suppose.
My story “Groob’s Stupid Grubs,” a story of a goblin’s hopes for his idiot children, is available in Black Gate 15.
I recently finished the first draft of a YA novel called Takedown Notice set in the net-mage universe of my stories “Captain Blood’s B00ty” and “One Click Banishment.” What happens when the Magical Association of Atlantis finally gets the upper hand against the net mages in the spell program copyfight?
The dark-and-bright palette reminds me a bit of a Peter Jackson film, in the best possible way.
It’s always great having a subject you love and keep going back to, trying to find just the right shot for it.
This photo seems to come across, to me, as “heavily” tweaked, as do “Rugged Soft Light”, “Tired Bones of the Earth”, and “November Summit Sunrise”. They just seem as if the hue has been increased significantly, more like a painting than a photograph.
Not complaining, just not my type at the moment. :-D
Well, yeah, they’re HDR. That’s kind of the point. I don’t believe in taking photographs, I believe in making them. I can understand your point of view, of course, but what I do isn’t documentary-style photography.
Gorgeous colours. And I love that it looks like a painting.
That they’re HDR explains a lot. From that perspective, HDR I see as a different approach and knowing that makes me look at the photos with a different perspective. I don’t really see that as being “tweaked” in the traditional sense, but rather a different photographic technique.
I’ve not done that much in the HDR arena, and when I do I usually use it more to bring out the shadows without losing the lights, so again it becomes a matter of what I like in a photograph while still trying to keep it looking as a photograph. So finding out these are HDR lets me learn different effects that are possible with the technique that I’m not familiar with yet. Thanks for the lesson!
Also, just to be clear, I didn’t mean to imply that tweaking a photo was a bad thing. I tweak mine to try and improve their impact as well, the end effect is a matter of degree and personal preference. It’s kind of interesting that knowing a photo is HDR as opposed to simply being manipulated to look more like a painting (again, to me) evokes a different attitude. I wonder why?