2210_1007 Sidewalk & First Snow
Continuing with the roads & paths photo set, here's the sidewalk across the street from my house, after a typical early snowfall last year. It melted away, also typical. Just a hint of what's to come.
This wasn't the shot I envisioned. I was using the Rokinon 8mm fisheye, a fun lens to play with from time to time. I got low down and liked the close view of slushy snow and cottonwood leaves, but there was too much extraneous detail. When you're using a lens this wide, there are a lot of elements within the frame. It just didn't work, and I abandoned the RAW file for months.
I think walking away for a while can be a good strategy. It's easy to get too emotionally connected to an image, or the idea of an image that somehow failed, and thereby miss what is actually there. I re-opened the file with a more or less blank mind, and tried a square crop, taking some off the top as well. And here it is. Simplified. Better, I hope.
Tomorrow, a transitional image, going from roads and paths to... something else.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
2210_1007 Sidewalk & First Snow
Continuing with the roads & paths photo set, here's the sidewalk across the street from my house, after a typical early snowfall last year. It melted away, also typical. Just a hint of what's to come.
This wasn't the shot I envisioned. I was using the Rokinon 8mm fisheye, a fun lens to play with from time to time. I got low down and liked the close view of slushy snow and cottonwood leaves, but there was too much extraneous detail. When you're using a lens this wide, there are a lot of elements within the frame. It just didn't work, and I abandoned the RAW file for months.
I think walking away for a while can be a good strategy. It's easy to get too emotionally connected to an image, or the idea of an image that somehow failed, and thereby miss what is actually there. I re-opened the file with a more or less blank mind, and tried a square crop, taking some off the top as well. And here it is. Simplified. Better, I hope.
Tomorrow, a transitional image, going from roads and paths to... something else.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.