Bare Trees

Posted by Brian (West Lafayette, United States) on 1 October 2007 in Plants & Nature.

I thought that this was a good subject with which to begin October. Soon, the trees will indeed be bare for those of us living in the northern hemisphere.

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Comments (9)

celialee from Kyoto, Japan

Very interesting!

1 Oct 2007 12:33am

DaveB from Exeter, United Kingdom

Cool shot, what kind of post-processing was involved?

1 Oct 2007 6:01am

Lost Valley Views from Kamloops, Canada

Oh my! This looks like a sketch of some sort! What a very interesting processing! I really like the smallest of detail that was brought out by the processing method. Please do let your blog admirers know how you did this. This is truly a piece of art-it would look fantastic framed and displayed. Indeed, an excellent start to the month of October!

1 Oct 2007 8:58am

Janice Thomson from Courtenay BC, Canada

This is fabulous Brian! I too would like to know what processing was involved. LV is right - this is definitely a piece of art. Excellent.

1 Oct 2007 9:20am

Brian from United States

LV--I took 3 bracketed exposures and produced an HDR image. I then pulled the image into Corel Paint Shop Pro and used the clarify function to boost the image into the HDR "insane zone." I did some noise reduction work and I converted the resulting image to monochrome (red filter conversion) and boosted contrast to remove much of the grey. I ended with a trace contour function. The dark halo around the trees is actually the remnants of the intense, blue sky of the original image.

1 Oct 2007 9:51am