Moss and Mist
This was originally shot at the beginning of the year, in order to properly convey the scene, and now armed with a new editing style I reworked the photo. Using exposure blending, rather than HDR layering to get the scene to display the way I had originally intended. I think the colors, and depth of the image are more apparent here, than in the original example I used. Of course the setting sun behind flaring through the trees, and creating corpuscular rays through the mist conveying the sense of drama as I stood beneath what looks to be a rickety structure. I hope you enjoy the re imagining of a photo I once considered to be “complete”.
Completion in photography editing is something of a mystery. Often you will find yourself working on a particular photo, tweaking more and more, then before you know it you have essentially ruined the frame. You can very easily, and very quickly overcomplicate a photo edit. So it is best to sometimes to walk away from a photo. Move onto something else, return to it in an hour, or even the next day. You will be surprised how often you will return to a photo and start to dial it back, saturation, contrast, exposure. Any number of things can be overdone, and rapidly, and it is something I, and many other photographers, struggle with.
Then there are times when you shoot and complete a photos edit in a single day, post it and move on barely looking back. Then you learn something new about editing photos, or shooting in the wild. You revisit the photo and begin to work on it once more, maybe completely reedit or even reshoot a scene you thought done. We’ve all done it, maybe more than some of us care to admit. It’s alright to see fault in the design, and reach out to prepare perceived mistakes. Just don’t overdo it while you’re working, take breaks. You finishing a single photo may take a little longer than you are comfortable with, but it’s alright, take it slow, speed comes as you refine the process.
Until Next Time!
Aperture: f8
ISO: 160
SS: 1/8th
Focal: 21mm
Fujinon 10-24mm
