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December 2010
The story behind it
01/12/2010
It's been days that snow has been falling copiously. Temperatures have also kept below freezing. It is time to get ready for a whole day outdoors, to photograph the park that I already know, and go further into a forest that is kept undiscovered to me. I am in the city, but I prepare food as if it were a mountain outing. Gradually, I get farther from the noises of transit and of police sirens. I listen to my boots, firmly diving into the snow. "Vrum, vrum, vrum". I get close to an isolated oak. It is overwhelming. It is impressive. Surely that, here in the middle of this white cover, it feels me getting close, in its own way.Comment
Technical issues
01/12/2010
It was taken with a full-frame DSLR, with a focal distance of 28mm, at 1/90s, 200 ISO and f/5,6. No tripod and focusing at hyperfocal distance. It did not involve great technical issues, besides exposing for the bark or, in another way, exposing +3/2EV above the matrix metering.Post-processing involved only slight tweaks on contrasts and Unsharp Mask".
Critial review
01/12/2010
It is a picture of a tree, in all its essence, but in a way different from the most usual. The idea is not showing everything, to let the viewer be proactive, in imagining what he/she envisages above. Such proactiveness, in photography or other creative piece, is in itself a rich creative process. If onset in the viewer's mind, it triggers important feelings, a closer and better understanding of the object. This photograph is powerfull in this. This is also largely brought up by the texture in the bark and its contrast with the smooth snow. Shapes also provide a simple yet powerful composition. The background trees help in the sense of scale.Where you should place it
01/12/2010
This photograph needs to breathe!It needs to blow out from a wall!
And you need to be looking at it with this piano song playing out loud!
I suggest using a grey passpartout around it, with a black or dark grey frame (wooden or metal-based). The original file allows printing at best quality for 45cm x 30cm, with no upsampling.
Sit back and enjoy!
