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Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

Detour

November 6, 2014

Forest Path on Salt Spring Island

A path through the woods used to go straight through here. But a large fir fell in a windstorm and, over a few years, became a still life where the sun plays over wet vegetation.

Now we stop, look, then travel the detour.

Filed Under: Nature, View Tagged With: creekside rainforest, forest, path, trail

Comments

  1. Ruth Harris says

    November 6, 2014 at 6:34 am

    I love the “blue monsters” slithering through the brush!

  2. John Cameron says

    November 6, 2014 at 6:55 am

    Initially I did a double take at the blueness. I considered adjusting blue in that area of the image. Then I realized the wet wood was reflecting the blue sky.

  3. Gayle says

    November 6, 2014 at 7:50 am

    Poetic description indeed. Duck Creek?

    • John Cameron says

      November 6, 2014 at 8:45 am

      Wasn’t attempting to be poetic; I must be a natural. Ha Ha…
      Creekside Rainforest

  4. John Cameron says

    November 6, 2014 at 8:53 am

    From email:
    “I love this picture. How do you get the forest pictures to be so clear and not blown out by the sky in the background. This is just lovely….”
    —Radha

    Good question, there’s a HUGE dynamic range in this setting. The camera was set to take 3 bracketed exposures. One overexposed by one stop, one ‘correct’ based on the metered spot, and the last underexposed by one stop. Each exposure was put on it’s own layer in editing software and certain areas were lightened, others darkened. Lastly some areas still required dodging and burning to achieve detail in both the highlights and the shadows (this was done in CapturePro).

  5. John Cameron says

    November 6, 2014 at 8:54 am

    From email:
    “I love this picture. How do you get the forest pictures to be so clear and not blown out by the sky in the background. This is just lovely…”
    —Radha

    Good question, there’s a HUGE dynamic range in this setting. The camera was set to take 3 bracketed exposures. One overexposed by one stop, one ‘correct’ based on the metered spot, and the last underexposed by one stop. Each exposure was put on it’s own layer in editing software and certain areas were lightened, others darkened. Lastly some areas still required dodging and burning to achieve detail in both the highlights and the shadows (this was done in CapturePro).

  6. William Kendall says

    November 6, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    Great composition, John.

    • John Cameron says

      November 6, 2014 at 4:39 pm

      Thanks

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