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rework of another Toorongo River shot rendering an atmospheric and ethereal mood.
single shot cropped to pano.
edit in PS and Nik.
Took this rather ordinary pic somewhere I can't remember but liked the way this edit turned out...Have a great sliders Sunday all
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6 may 2020
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Typically British snow....wet and melty, but still air meant a slight mist formed above it, giving a rather ethereal mood....and a white bird for good measure
It's hard to believe this misty forest scene was found right outside San Francisco, but that is indeed where this gorgeous grove of trees was found, blanketed by a thick summer bay area fog. It reminded me of a scene from a Lord of the Rings movie, and provided an ethereal mood. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed photographing it! www.optimalfocusphotography.com
A late morning walk along the shore of Lake Starnberg, where the mist veils the Alps in the distance. The familiar mountain peaks remain hidden, though I know they are there—I've seen them many times before in clear detail. But not today. The sun is up, yet mostly obscured by clouds, casting a soft, diffused light over the landscape. A shimmering reflection stretches across the water, a long beam of light breaking through the haze. To the right, the mist thickens, blurring the horizon and erasing all clarity. A tranquil, almost dreamlike scene of light, water, and uncertainty.
And since a photo needs a frame, a few branches of a tree shoreside where I am standing
Whilst I'm in a fine art and ethereal mood, here is a shot from when we lived in the Lake District on the shores of Ullswater from back in 2018. We were fortunate to have access to our own jetty which I often photographed in the many different conditions that presented themselves in the Lakes
Canon 5D MKIV
Canon 70 - 200mm f/4 @ 78mm
0.5 Second Exposure
f/11
ISO50
Nisi V5 Pro
Nisi Circular Polariser
Nisi 10 Stop ND
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Tulips 2021 - Original image is a triple multi-exposure done in-camera. I did the texture with the Weathered preset in the Stackables app. The border is Snapseed''s frame 7. #stackablesapp #snapseedapp #tulips #alteredreality #ethereal_moods #editfromthesoul #everything_edited #artistry_flair #textured #masters_in_artistry #dailytextures
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25900 Perdido Beach Blvd
Orange Beach, Alabama
Photo taken on March 1, 2023
Daybreak waiting for the sun to make its appearance. The clouds look milky, in layers and variations of oranges. Fitting for the name of the beach. The surface of the sea is smooth also. This could be a dream with ethereal mood set by the smoothness of the sky and sea.
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A very foggy Jubilee woods from a few weeks ago. The younger trees caught my eye and stood out amongst the more mature trees in the woodland and of course the fog made for the ethereal atmosphere.
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Low Tide circa 1980 #snapseed #distressedfxplus #formulas #alteredreality #ethereal_moods #editfromthesoul #everything_edited #artistry_flair #textured #masters_in_artistry #dailytextures
Almost too much fog at times today (Hail Mary) on a nice solo mooch around Padley then an impromptu meeting with Chris T, for further explorations around Longshaw Estate after a quick coffee stop.
I took this exact shot earlier this week and vowed to return with added fog. That fog arrived today in buckets so I made the short walk to get it in the bag.
There are plenty of spots to explore up there and it was far quieter than Padley which was absolutely hammered.
Another landscape shot using the 85mm which is fast becoming my favourite focal length for shots such as this.
Great day in great company and always a pleasure to catch up pal.
Happy days.
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(Image taken with the old classic Nikon D300).
Wakeup early to find out that it was really foggy, so went fast to the lake to capture the magic moment. Try my 6 stop ND filter to blur the water and to get a more ethereal mood.
(Spanish : Me levante temprano y me di cuenta que habían condiciones de niebla. Por lo tanto me fui rápido al lago para capturar este momento mágico. Trate el filtro de densidad neutra de 6 pasos para darle mas ambiente a la foto).
(Location: Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida).
(Camera: Nikon D300, Tokina SD 12-24mm f/4 IF DX AT-X PRO)
This image from my Album: Florida Waterscapes..
Kind of messes with your reality a bit, doesn't it?!
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Whew! I dunno about you guys, but I am completely OVER summer! This heat is just too much! I haven’t spent much time outside besides work, but I’m itching to get out and shoot something! Anything at this point! The one good thing about this hot weather, is since I’m not going out, it gives me time to catch up on some processing.
Here’s a scene that I capture earlier this summer while running around in the forest. The quality of light here was so nice! The subtle soft light passing through the thick morning fog was ethereal. I wish I could go back to that cool foggy morning right now!
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This image showcases botanical elegance through its careful composition and atmospheric lighting. The hooded pitcher plants (Sarracenia minor) are arranged in a natural cluster, their sculptural forms and intricate veining highlighted by soft, diffused sunlight. The shallow depth of field gently blurs the background, drawing attention to the plants' graceful curves and translucent textures. Subtle color tones and selective focus create a serene, almost ethereal mood, emphasizing the refined beauty and quiet drama found in nature’s details.
McIntosh County, Georgia USA
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Poacher turned gamekeeper
I am in the process of writing/recording a blog/vlog on my woodland scouting techniques.
I am not sure on your scouting methods but often I will find a wood on google maps that I want to take a closer look at, to then discover using OS maps that unfortunately there are no footpaths leading through it, and it's not within the boundaries of open access land. I find this to be a huge problem in the North Yorkshire Moors.
Fortunately, all be it by chance the wood my vlog will be centered around I happened to bump into the gamekeeper who is charged with looking after whilst peering over a wall into the wood. Thankfully a very pleasant gentleman who was more than happy for me to bimble around at my leisure with Nikki (My D850, not mistress, after all its solitude I seek in the woods not splinters). But often this isn't the case, I have written to landowners in the past requesting access to no avail.
Which leaves me to my questions, trespassing, do you ever do it in the name of getting a shot? As far as I am aware trespassing on private land isn't a criminally enforceable offence unless it's MOD land for example but does that mean we should? England has very poor access to land in my opinion and it's obviously something which has been highlighted in the news recently with the protests on Dartmoor. I'd be interested to learn your thoughts.
Another image title taken from a favourite song, this time the silver torches.
I have been having a few compositional and location-based issues recently which has affected by passion for photography somewhat. If there is one thing I have learnt about woodland photography, it is that woodlands are not all made equally, not all lend themselves to producing photogenic images, it has taken me a long time exploring to find the area's I now head to when conditions are favourable. Fortunately, one of these areas is no more than 800m from my house. This local woodland however is frequented by two very famous photographers which when I first discovered the area, I was unaware of.
This woodland happens to have about a 100m stretch of some of the most photogenic tree's you could ever imagine, throw in the fact I can see and walk to the woodland from my house and you have the perfect recipe for getting ideal woodland conditions, if I look out my window and can't see the woodland for the fog, there is only one place I am heading.
Now retrospectively looking at my images some no doubt have elements of images made by the photographers who have explored this area before me, that is hard to escape when the area is as photographically stunning as it is, at first, I purposely stayed away from the most obvious compositions, but the more time I spent in the woodland the more I was pulled towards them.
Which leads me to the question of how do you approach shooting a scene that may have already been published and still maintain your own artistic integrity whilst at the same time respecting the more established photographer.
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⚙️ ISO100 • F8 • 0.8s • 40mm
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This has become my favourite woodland pathway. It has stopped me everytime I'm cycling along and often meant I've missed the fog elsewhere. The light always seems to come in at the right angle and I can never resist one more photo.
This digital blend of Southwark Bridge at dusk was one I'd been planning for several months, but it was a trial of patience while I waited for the right weather conditions. I needed a clear sky and low wind speed for the scene I had in mind, but also a very low tide along the Thames to coincide with the sunset, and it wasn't until an evening in mid-September -- on one of the hottest days of the year for the UK -- that all of these elements combined.
Although a few photographers were visiting the same location to take advantage of the low sunset tide, most were shooting in the opposite direction, where Ik-Joong Kang's cube-shaped art installation "Floating Dreams" was spending its final few days moored beneath the Millennium Bridge. This gave me the opportunity to experiment with several compositions without getting in anyone's way, and before long I'd found a portion of the old embankment structure protruding out of the water which I felt created a nice sense of direction towards Southwark Bridge and the Shard in the distance. I was drawn to this scene because of its combination of textures and disparate high- and low-tech elements: there was a smooth, clean vibrance to the sky and the water, and the bright and intricate lights and colours in the buildings leading up to the towering might of the Shard, but also a gritty, desolate detail along the shore, where the traces of the old embankment hinted at a long-forgotten era.
The glow of the sunset against the bridge and the buildings was captured using three- and four-minute exposures, with a six-minute exposure providing a smooth and moody finish for the sky and the river, and nine- and 12-minute exposures capturing the city lights and beautiful dusk tones. Using the Pen Tool in Photoshop, I isolated the sky, the river, the buildings and the shore, and then gradually blended portions of these exposures into the final image using a combination of Lighten, Soft Light and Screen blend modes, as well as linear gradient masks to blend in the darker exposures in order to add some of the evening tones into the sky and to darken the shore, which I thought would help to guide the eye towards the centre of the frame.
Once the image had been colour-graded, I dipped into Colour Efex Pro to apply a sparing amount of Pro Contrast and Detail Extractor for the buildings and the shore, and finally Silver Efex Pro, where I selectively reduced the midtone structure within the sky and the river, as well as gently increasing their highlights, which seemed to enhance the ethereal mood of the image. The end result hopefully captures the beauty of the view along the Thames riverside during its transition from sunset to dusk and early evening, but at the same time my aim with this image was to capture a perspective that hadn't been seen before, and to explore some of the scene's subtler details.
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It’s been 3 months since I’ve made these images from the swamps. Over the years I’ve become quite fond of the area. There’s something about the solitude there as it’s very zen like. These swamps have so much character. Each tree has its own design, its own story, its own look and feel. Every year the swamps take on a new look, and look just as creepy and mysterious as my first visit. There’s this feeling of nervousness and excitement when I first start paddling into these swamps on return visits. It’s like the first day of school for me. There’s always that thought of what if I see a snake or a alligator lurking around in the murky waters. It becomes an afterthought once you’re seeing all this amazing beauty around you. The chirping of the birds awaking at sunrise, the splashes of fall color all around and the creepy, yet beautiful ethereal mood that the morning mist provides just brings these swamps to life. To put simply.....I just adore these areas.
Today, with my latest series of images, Bayou Mosaic, is a display of the cypress swamps during the peak fall colors. When I photograph these cypress trees I like to focus on the tree structure/design. The architecture of these trees, the peak fall colors and surface mist just makes for interesting subject matter. The conditions prove to be somewhat challenging this past fall with higher water levels. Areas that I was able to just get out of the kayak easily, were in chest deep water. With the higher water levels I feel helped the foliage this past fall. The fall colors where the best I’ve seen in all of my visits to the area. The reds were deep and juicy! The oranges and yellows were rich and vibrant! It was beautiful to say the least. The swamp was full of color and life. Each scene looked like a painting. My imagery doesn’t even do these swamps any justice. I do my best to capture what I see and feel, and I hope that shows in my work.
Bayou Mosaic 2018
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A cheeky shot from Chapel St Leonards on the Lincolnshire coast UK. The submerged structure reminded of the classic 1975 Spielberg film. 1 sec exposure used to slow the water down a little.
The howling
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Fanal Forest is just mesmerizing when layers of clouds roll between the old trees. This creates a mystical and ethereal mood, often dark and gritty.
I didn't had the luck of catching the fog I wanted but that is one of the struggles in landscape photography: making high expectations.
But that's one of the reasons I will go back to Madeira, to spend some more time in Fanal Forest trying to find my desired compositions and also the fog I dreamt about.
A shot from Corton on the Suffolk coast a few weeks ago. What drew me to this composition was the stark contrast between the hard rocks and the wood sea defences. I immediately thought a long exposure would work well to tie the two subjects together with an ethereal look.
“...Don't go far off, not even for a day,
because I don't know how to say it - a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in
an empty station when the trains are
parked off somewhere else, asleep..."
― Pablo Neruda
- From a very foggy morning in the forest.
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The thick fog diffused the light evenly and gave a ethereal mood to the scene.
Canon 5D, 17-40mm f/4, polarizer, gnd filter.
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After a full day around Fort William and Ben Nevis we retired to our campsite in Corpach. It rested on the shore, looking out over Loch Eil.
The sun had set by the time we had got the camper positioned and set up for the evening, and the rain was light.
I decided the blue hour and misty rain was yielding a lovely combination with some bounced light that seemed to be almost backlighting some of the heavier higher cloud levels.
I set up right on the waters edge, and decided some slight hand movements combined with a multiple exposure technique might add even more to the ethereal mood.
Desaturated in LR together with a little boost to the highlights and some pulling back of the blacks to add some contrast and hey presto; another ICM in the bag.
A Christmas morning walk in Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, a beautiful area of giant coastal redwoods and lush green ferns. The fog was just beginning to burn off and provided a beautiful ethereal mood with dramatic beams of morning light.
A Christmas morning walk in Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, a beautiful area of giant coastal redwoods and lush green ferns. The fog was just beginning to burn off and provided a beautiful ethereal mood with dramatic beams of morning light.