Chris Calohan
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Waiting for the Sun: Chris Calohan
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Antonio Correia
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Very nice Chris ! 
Tom dinning
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When I saw the title to the thread I had to peep.
Disappointed in one respect but such an illuminating image is worth the visit.
Thanks, Chris, for the morning light.
Disappointed in one respect but such an illuminating image is worth the visit.
Thanks, Chris, for the morning light.
Rachel McLain
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Beautiful!! Sort of haunting and lonely feeling to it, but it's really beautiful!
Rach
Rach
Chris Calohan
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Thanks. I find the fog to be especially difficult to meter for and thus a challenge, a challenge I think while I've not yet really mastered it, one where I am comfortable. I too love the melancholy, haunted feel of the mist as it weaves a sultry pattern through the forests or over the waters. I do not think in the last month where fog has been predicted, i haven't been out shooting, each time perfecting and tweaking my exposures.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Waiting for the Sun: Chris Calohan
I have a feeling, or rather a "need" to see more to the left!
That's only because this early morning landscape is haunting and one wants to look around.
Asher
Paul Abbott
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A good image, Chris.
I do think there was a better picture waiting on the right side of this image because I love the tree structures and reflections there, combined with that small island of trees. My eye just wanders around the left side and out of the image...
I do think there was a better picture waiting on the right side of this image because I love the tree structures and reflections there, combined with that small island of trees. My eye just wanders around the left side and out of the image...
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Paul,
I feel your wish for more. This is why I am against the wisdom of many teachers that the height of photographic skill is to print what one frames in the field. Well, to me, there's no reason why a scene should fit in an arbitrary camera frame, no matter where one moves or crouches to compose. To me, taking overlapping coverage of adjacent milieux allows one to reconsider, at home, without the sounds of crickets, the ocean breeze or the smell of pinewood.
I have this print in front of me, and it works well when viewed up close as one discovers the deer and more so, one does stay in the frame. Still, at first glance, you're so right, that there are also added possibilities.
What's good about OPF, is that we are prepared to voice such views.
Still, if anyone does only photograph precisely what's framed, then I salute them!
Asher
Rachel McLain
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I find it so interesting that Paul and Asher both are looking for more on the left.
I love it being off balance (if that is what you would call it) and I think that is a huge part of its power. Honestly I have been drawn back to this photo several times. It is truly stunning (IMO!).
The only thing I might change is a very very minor tilt to right. I've taken a straightedge to it and it looks perfectly straight (by looking at trees and reflections), but my eyes see that the left side is ever so slightly low. So I would probably tweak it a tiny bit to the right to accommodate for that because most people won't take a straightedge to it!
Rach
I love it being off balance (if that is what you would call it) and I think that is a huge part of its power. Honestly I have been drawn back to this photo several times. It is truly stunning (IMO!).
The only thing I might change is a very very minor tilt to right. I've taken a straightedge to it and it looks perfectly straight (by looking at trees and reflections), but my eyes see that the left side is ever so slightly low. So I would probably tweak it a tiny bit to the right to accommodate for that because most people won't take a straightedge to it!
Rach
Paul,
I feel your wish for more. This is why I am against the wisdom of many teachers that the height of photographic skill is to print what one frames in the field. Well, to me, there's no reason why a scene should fit in an arbitrary camera frame, no matter where one moves or crouches to compose. To me, taking overlapping coverage of adjacent milieux allows one to reconsider, at home, without the sounds of crickets, the ocean breeze or the smell of pinewood.
I have this print in front of me, and it works well when viewed up close as one discovers the deer and more so, one does stay in the frame. Still, at first glance, you're so right, that there are also added possibilities.
What's good about OPF, is that we are prepared to voice such views.
Still, if anyone does only photograph precisely what's framed, then I salute them!
Asher