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ArtlessHmmmm — Through The Open Gate
Published: 2008-01-09 16:59:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 1169; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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Another from the wintery frosty seriesDue to the influences of the dearest *Andrew-and-Seven I have gone for a slightly more contrasty look in my post editing.
If you like this also see
Frosty Morning .
Footprints in the Frost
About The Farm
Thankyou for all your comments!
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thanks. I hope if it ices over at all again this year to get out with my camera as i missed my previous opportunies this winter.
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you like then! good memories of freezing my fingers off that morning!
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Woow!! A Wonderful shot. Here in Brazil the vegetation is so different. Is good to know different places even if only by photos.
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indeed - i enjoy travelling round the world on DA! Thankyou!
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Get you "little miss popular" hehe
well deserved too
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eh? thankyou i think!
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I meant it silly, your pic is pretty popular by anyone's standards so well done
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ah thankyou. 17 favs and 54 comments isn't bad i suppose!
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cheeky! get away with ya!
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Nice inviting image. Love the lighting too! +fav!
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Awww thankyou so much. Yer - i liked the invitation that the gate offered - its good eh? Thanks for the 
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ooo thankyou! Such a compliment!
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I love how you have used the open gate to tempt us to walk through the rest of the scene.
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Thankyou very much - glad you appreciate it and thankyou for the :+Fav: i'm still shocked i spotted the gate and did so well capturing it!
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You are most welcome. There are many things that can be used to lead the viewer into a picture and yours was lovely.
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The open gate is a nice compositional element, which introduces the viewer into the scene. And I like the passage from shadowy foreground to the sunlit winterly trees. Nice work 
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thgankyou - i'm glad you appreciate it!
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Thankyou - i thought i did well this one - challanging yourself pays off!
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Alright trouble, here I am !!
1 - thanks for the name check hehe. Fame at last. Thing is, most cameras don't really record the depth of colour tone so I always try to bring that back. Then usually keep pushing the slider...... hehe
2 - your pic. WOW! It's really great. All the comments are right and just, so ditto. My only suggestion, based on my immediate reaction, is that perhaps the pic is too square - too deep I mean. I'd try it with some of the grass trimmed off, and perhaps some of the sky. Just makes it more 'landscape'y.
I've had a fiddle and put the result in Scraps.
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Thanks for showing me your thoughts. I am at last learnign that to edit is skill and not ruin of photography as the purists say - thanks for helping me along that journey! If it weren't for your influence i wouldn't have pushed them as far. Actually this one was attained really manipulating curves changing almost each tone individually - the graph was hilarious in the doing! lolol
Glad you appreaciate it and thanks for that constructive crit. then taking the time to show me. Have had a look and can see where your going but my problem is i'm now too attached to this image! lol
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Life's a learning curve hon, and my curve has been in some strange shapes now and again I can tell ya!
Processing starts the minute you press the button. It always has - even on film cameras which is what the '
Digital is no different, we just use a different medium.
Lenses alter the images too. Wideangles bend the edge of the frame, telephotos compress distance (think cityscapes or rolling hills in the mist type shots). Always have and always will. Then again, how do we know that our eyes/brains are processing the image we see in to something we can understand?
What if the world doesn't really look exactly as we see it?
Scary huh?
Keep pushing the sliders babe, never settle for leaving it in the middle.
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yes - i think i would agree. I'm just beginning to learn about all the filters and different lenses (not htat i have any YET!) Big question - how deos the world actually look and how much is our brain's interpretation. some are so opptomistic seeing the beauty and some so pessimistic seeing only the negative and destruction. How does it look? Different to each much like differences through a camera lens depending upon the pre-conception you drape over your eyes!
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this is wonderful....one really feels drawn into the picture, its great the way you chose to show the gate at the side. the increased contrast helps making it even more dramatic....i can imagine so well how it must feel standing at this spot 
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Why thankyou - I'm glad you appreciate the gate - it was just an after thought after frosty morning was taking - works though so well!!!!
I'm not sure you can imagine though. Behind me were parked 20-30 cars and i was stood on a yellow/brown gravel carpark! lol
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youre welcome! i do really like the gate
and woah, judging from this picture i really could have never guessed there was a carpark just behind
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ah well there you go - appearances can be decieving!
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i agree with with kkart about the fence/gate..the perspective of it draws the eye and into the picture, Lizzy..also the contrasts and colours are wonderful..
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thankyou! i'm learning at last how to make photo's better and increase the beauty of what is already captured using editing software. I'm also learning alot more about composition! All this reading is actually paying off!
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you're welcome, Lizzy...and oo, editing.slippery slope into addiction..LOL voice of experience..
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ah i think not for me. I think its the photo taking that is proving to be that bit! lol
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well, yeah..and that too..
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Ya know, I rather like the element of the fence in this shot, it adds a nice lil touch and gives the viewer some insight into the surroundings
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I'm glad you do - i wanted to add some foreground so experimented and this is what was added to the last shot. Taking time to evaluate what you've done can really be worth it can't it! I then got cold! lol
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lol yep slow and taking your time can pay off!
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Until reaching the point of fingers to cold to pres the shutter that is!
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lol ya that is bad, very bad!
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Wow!! What an atmosphere! I love winter like this
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the black is the shadow under the ice between the grass - there is no black ice. Only white ontop of the grass... i tried to get a higher perspective but lost the gate which is what i felt made this photo special and different from the other one... Thankyou for your comment!
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wow.. this is an amaizing picture. I adore the atmosphere.
the other one is wonderful too, but I like this one more.. more behind it, I guess.
I love everything - the colors, the subject.. the uber-great-quality. =]
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Very welcome - I really love your photograph style...
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