The Tempest
Trippin’ trees.
The most frightening time to be walking in the woods is during a storm. You can’t help but imagine being found the next morning crushed under a fallen giant, or wandering concussed (or worse) from the impact of a falling branch.
But it’s also the most exciting time to be there.
The whole world moves around you like being on the heaving deck of a ship. Creaking and cracking sounds abound against the constant primordial moans of the wind in the canopy. A lightning storm at dusk is the most fun time as the light plays tricks with flickering shadows like ghosts in every direction.
These are three more wobbly camera tree pictures taken earlier in the month, suitably over-cooked for Sliders Sunday. For me, the big advantage of a triptych is I get to use up three of those dubious images that I don’t know what to do with :)
I’ve tried to capture the latent violence of the storm in the processing. Without sound to help I’ve relied on colour and the confusion of the wobbles to recreate that sense of disoriented unreality, that impression of chaos and uncertainty. I hope it works for you!
To keep some coherence between the pictures I have used much the same filter set on each with similar colourways. All the creative stuff is done in Nik Color Efex. The Solarisation and Midnight filters do much of the heavy lifting but with things like glows, bicolour filters and tonal filters providethe supporting act. If you would like the presets just ask. (No-one ever does so I find that a really cheap way for me to seem generous and encouraging!)
I’ll post links to the three originals in first comment, all taken on a relatively pleasant winter afternoon. I’ve uploaded the image at relatively high resolution so if you want to zoom in on the individual images you may :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x… and enjoy your next walk in the woods :)
The Tempest
Trippin’ trees.
The most frightening time to be walking in the woods is during a storm. You can’t help but imagine being found the next morning crushed under a fallen giant, or wandering concussed (or worse) from the impact of a falling branch.
But it’s also the most exciting time to be there.
The whole world moves around you like being on the heaving deck of a ship. Creaking and cracking sounds abound against the constant primordial moans of the wind in the canopy. A lightning storm at dusk is the most fun time as the light plays tricks with flickering shadows like ghosts in every direction.
These are three more wobbly camera tree pictures taken earlier in the month, suitably over-cooked for Sliders Sunday. For me, the big advantage of a triptych is I get to use up three of those dubious images that I don’t know what to do with :)
I’ve tried to capture the latent violence of the storm in the processing. Without sound to help I’ve relied on colour and the confusion of the wobbles to recreate that sense of disoriented unreality, that impression of chaos and uncertainty. I hope it works for you!
To keep some coherence between the pictures I have used much the same filter set on each with similar colourways. All the creative stuff is done in Nik Color Efex. The Solarisation and Midnight filters do much of the heavy lifting but with things like glows, bicolour filters and tonal filters providethe supporting act. If you would like the presets just ask. (No-one ever does so I find that a really cheap way for me to seem generous and encouraging!)
I’ll post links to the three originals in first comment, all taken on a relatively pleasant winter afternoon. I’ve uploaded the image at relatively high resolution so if you want to zoom in on the individual images you may :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x… and enjoy your next walk in the woods :)