September 1, 2018. Marin County Headlands, California. Standing on old gun emplacements that go back to the Spanish-American War. Sun going down. Fog rolling in.
This one spent hours in post-processing. Not one pixel was left untouched. The perfect balance that I so clearly saw in my mind was eluding me in the file. But it came. It crept up on me very slowly.
(Canon G7X II. RAW processing in DxO Pro; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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The fog, on its silent haunches, made that processing and now our viewing such a meditative endeavor. Outstanding series.
Some folks don’t like to spend even two minutes on an image and others invest hours. An image lets one know how long it requires.
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Thank you very much Steve. And you’re right about the processing time.
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Beautiful soft, atmospheric, mysterious shot.
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Thank you very much.
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I recognise the difficulty with fog!! Lovely achievement.
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Thank you very much. Easy, it was not. Rewarding, it is.
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We could quip that you spent more and more time to achieve the look of less and less.
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You could. And you would be right.
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I’m speechless.
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I am so gratified. The something/nothing balance was poised on the head of a pin, and could’ve fallen off in either direction as way too much or way too little. It was a matter of taking away everything that wasn’t the picture, without taking away the picture.
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“Not one pixel was left untouched” … an ebb and flow of closeness and remoteness creating an intimacy between artist and image?
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That’s a very nice statement of it. Thank you.
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Fantastic shot, Michael. A lot of work yet you make it appear so effortless.
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Thank you very much. It was definitely worth it.
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Incredibly beautiful, Michael. “Not one pixel was left untouched”, Wow!!
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Thanks Amy. I have to admit I didn’t actually count the affected pixels, but nonetheless I think that’s true.
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I think so too. 🙂
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I know just what you mean Michael. Some images are very much worth it – we know what the end must be, it’s the journey that gets us there.
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Thank you. The journey is part of the reward; the result is the rest of it.
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Reminds me of the smoke we had last week here…I did a IG capture of it…feels like I was there but I’m here 🤔😀 lovely abstraction Micheal
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Thank you very much. As you can see in my original description and comments, it was not easy.
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For all the quiet, there is a kind of explosive movement here that I love. There’s a sense of something very powerful at work. Needless to say, it’s a wonderful image!
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Thank you very much. And you are absolutely correct. That fog was moving in fast and was changing from second to second. There was definitely something very powerful at work. In that sense, this photo, which I worked so long and hard on, is a snapshot.
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