Sometimes processed images sit on my desktop for some time while I think about them and wait for my conflicting feelings about them to reach a consensus. Today’s image is a case in point. It was taken a year ago with a longish lens. I can’t remember exactly how I processed it, but the aim was to maximize the impact of the almost abstract array of colourful leaf-like shapes that comprise the image.
Almost every leaf is misshapen, or at an odd angle and many of them seem suspended in space. I still find it a difficult image to describe. The distorted shapes remind me a little of how some painters were very ‘loose’ in their painting of detail. What I do know is that I simply like it. Do you?
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I do like it, and it is just as appropriate this autumn as it would have been a year ago. The longish lens has worked well.
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Many thanks Dave
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I like it, too. The shape of the leaves is quite unusual but the color is typical fall foliage color.
My MO is to try to process files shortly after they’re shot while they are fresh in my mind. But I reserve the right to reprocess any time later to try to improve on them.
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Thanks Ken. Looking back through the archive – something I will do more of I suspect as winter arrives – there are always images that can benefit from a re-process. I’ve also got a large number of images from the current year that I have so far had no time to tackle.
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Yes, I do, Andy…very much…the yellow and blue are a nice combination…and I enjoy the blueberry-like refractions of the light, as well. Nice capture.
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Thanks Scott. And I like the allusion to blueberry-like highlights?
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You’re welcome, Andy…and I’m glad you do. 🙂
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I do like it and I also really love the light behind the leaves that are bubble like.
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Thank you Len. Bubble like is a good way of describing that background. What surprised me is that, to my eye at least, that rather strong background doesn’t feel as if it dominates or detracts from the main image.
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Another positive vote here! I like the ‘odd’ angles of the leaves, it almost gives the impression of them falling.
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Thanks Lisa. The shapes are certainly ‘misshapen’ which I think adds to the images in a rather strange way
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What a lovely photograph this is.
The light is beautiful.
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Thanks Lisa
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I like it 🙂 the bokeh in the background is nice but I’m wondering if it’s a little distracting. ..
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Thanks Joanne. The background is certainly strong – to my eye I don’t feel it detracts from the main image – but then I may be finding it difficult to be truly objective about my own image!
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Or maybe it’s just my inexperienced eye…. The image certainly is really nice
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I like it! I like it very much in fact Andy. It’s one of those images you just want to keep looking at.
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Thanks Adrian. Glad you like it. It’s a bit of a one-off I think – just down to the way the leaves hung or perhaps swayed
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It’s beautiful. I like many photographs, but my acid test always is, “Would I want to live with this on the wall?” A resounding yes, here. I love the clarity of the leaves against the blurred background, not to mention the way they represent various stages of decay. It’s almost a cliché to show autumn leaves against a blue sky. Those photos can be beautiful, too, but this is interesting in a different way.
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Thanks very much Linda. A year since it was shot, I still love this image. It is a little bit quirky, the leaves a little unusual and misshapen, and it is ‘different’. Just like Spring, it’s difficult to find something new or different to say about Autumn without descending into the ‘popular’ images that have been shot so many times before.
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I very much like the colours, shapes and angles of the leaves.
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Thanks Meanderer
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I just love these natural abstract type pieces, Andy, and I find myself mesmerized with this particular piece that seems to showcase autumn leaves hanging in space. Lovely colors and shapes indeed, my friend, very pleasing for the eye!
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Thanks so much Toad. Autumn is such a beautiful time of the year and it’s difficult to find something that little bit different- but this seemed to fit the bill.
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