4/12/2011: Waiting for Footfall

This needs to be seen larger, and clicking the image will open it on its SmugMug page as large as your monitor will support. You may need to scoot back in your chair, away from the computer, to really catch the effect. An exaggerated perspective on the path in the forest shot, from ground level…and with the trees still bare in spring. This shot is about line and light…the lines of the bare trees outlined in light, and the light receding at the far reach of the tunnel. The few evergreens and the leafy floor anchor the eye and help the eye and mind to make sense of it. In addition to the low angle, I used some telephoto compression to emphasize the effects. Cropped from the bottom and top for composition and to eliminate distracting out of focus foreground.

Canon SX20IS at 330mm equivalent field of view, f5 @ 1/400th @ ISO 100. Landscape Mode.

Processed for intensity and clarity in Lightroom. I took it into PhotoShop Elements to clone out a twig that was protruding upward into the frame from the bottom.

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