Just the oak leaves retain a bit of ruddiness in this otherwise monochrome foggy landscape at Atkins Reservoir in North Amherst.
I would have preferred a slightly thicker fog to hide the posts in the background but otherwise like the sense of quiet.
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Foggy here in Nova Scotia..great image.
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Thanks. It’s often foggy there is it not?
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Speaking as someone with a more-that-nine-years-old blog, I wouldn’t want to hide any of my posts in the background, and look forward to others yet to come. One of those a week from now will include a photograph in which I’ve deliberately reduced the color; you got reduced color in a natural way, via fog. As for the wooden posts in your picture, did you consider using a digital eraser?
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They’re concrete so hard to remove. Not really as this is a well-known location in town and the posts would be obviously missing. Add to that that I really don’t like doing that with things I couldn’t physically remove myself. Beer cans, fallen branches, and other types of things I will try remove by hand and usually only digitally if getting to them is dangerous like at the bottom of a waterfall. Blown up there is also some sort of structure barely visible below the dam that I think is reinforcement for the berm.
Sometimes I will reduce saturation if it seems over the top whether it really looked that way or not.
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Wonderful!
This fog… wow!
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Thank you. We have had very nice fog recently.
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Enjoy it, with great photos! 😀
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I wouldn’t worry too much about those posts. Even after you mentioned them, I had to search to find them.
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could not see them…for my part.
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I can’t help being picky. 🙂
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I had never realised the reflection in water was not impacted by the fog.
Very inspiring picture…
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It is but the fog gets thicker as there is more distance so appears thin closer.
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I was indeed feeling pretty moody this Monday morning but then I saw this wonderful image~wow! It is stunning.
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There’s nothing like tranquility toi calm our mood and relax us. Glad it did that for you, Melissa. Thanks!
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I like this a lot – I thought it was B&W until it opened up on my screen, and I like the very muted, subtle colors. The posts don’t seem bothersome in the slightest.
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At first glance on site I thought black and white. But once viewing it on the camera’s back I loved the slight bit of color. A test conversion convinced me that keeping the color worked better. Thanks, Robert.
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I think that the touch of colour really draws me into the photograph. There’s a wonderful air of mystery here and a feeling of closeness to nature.
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Thanks, Ann. I like that you see a bit of mystery to this.
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I enjoy photographs with a bit of mystery to them… 🙂
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Nice one, Steve. I didn’t even notice the guardrails until you mentioned them. I was busy looking at the reflections in the water. 😉
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Thanks, Eliza! I often tell myself to be quiet about things and maybe no one will notice but then decide to open my big mouth. 🙂
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I think that bit of ruddiness really adds something to this one. Very subtle, but it stands out nicely. Really nice composition, as well, and I love the water movement and what it does to the reflections. Sometimes I love still water and perfect reflections, but this one is a perfect example of how fantastic some water movement can be.
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Thanks, Todd. I actually never considered a long exposure for this. The gentle ripples held my attention softening the reflection.
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Both the gentle ruddiness and the ripples help to bring this together. I don’t think it would be as effective with either of these elements missing.
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Thanks, Gary. Honestly I didn’t think of the ripples as a composition element but knew they were there.
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Nice job capturing the mood! Some may have tried to boost the contrast but then the foggy feeling would have been lost. The histogram in foggy images doesn’t have a black black or white white.
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Thanks, Denice. Yeah, exposing to the right doesn’t fit every image. That said, I did raise the whites in LR and reduce the clarity a touch to be sure the mood wasn’t lost.
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Opps! Sorry about that typo, Denise! I am sure that you are nice though. 🙂
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