TREE THREAD - Post your tree shots here

[Sahil]

Here is one I took long back with my Compact Camera

Poplar trees.

[arith]

[arith]

[arith]

[DavidGee]

Fallen Giant - Naphill Common Buckinghamshire



David

[ScoutR]

[Steaphany]

Wind in the Willow



In this photo, I compressed 50 exposures taken over the period of 1000 seconds down into a single image. The Weeping Willow was experiencing winds gusting to 30 MPH, 48 KPH, while cumulus clouds passed by in the deep blue sky.

This resulting photo is not blurred, as every frame was properly focused, but the passing clouds and blowing foliage bend into indistinct forms.

Photographed on April 24, 2010 with my Sigma SD14 through my Sigma 28mm EX DG Aspherical Macro lens at f/8, 50 x 1/60th, ISO 100.

Wind in the Willow on my site

[Wirefox]

Foggy Day Tree

Love this image Wendy although it may benefit from the horizon being leveled off. There is also what looks like a crease just left of bottom centre which could be blurred out. My sort of 'tree' shot

In this photo, I compressed 50 exposures taken over the period of 1000 seconds down into a single image

Wow, just wow. I commend your patience. I quite like the effect on the tree (although I would have been very lazy and used a GIMP filter). I am still trying to work if the 'Turner' tree and the photographic lower third work for me

Steve

[ScoutR]

it may benefit from the horizon being leveled off. There is also what looks like a crease just left of bottom centre which could be blurred out. My sort of 'tree' shot

Thanks Rob: The horizon was actually sloped (never know what to do with those) the crease is a blade of grass, that I could/should clone out. I also don't like the way the dark band top left ends so abruptly. Had to did deep for this one, I didn't realize I still had it. It's from last year when I first got my camera. It's another one of those "close but no cigar shots" I like the concept but technically not great.

Your getting some really great shots in this post. I'm glad you started it. I love trees too, and there are some really great shots here.

Colin's "Lone Tree Vista" should be in here. Colin?

Wendy

[carregwen]

Here is one I took long back with my Compact Camera

Poplar trees.

Sahil

It may have been taken with a compact camera, but it is excellent. Really like this.

[Sahil]

Sahil

It may have been taken with a compact camera, but it is excellent. Really like this.

Thanks, Rob

[eNo]

[carregwen]

Wind in the Willow



In this photo, I compressed 50 exposures taken over the period of 1000 seconds down into a single image. The Weeping Willow was experiencing winds gusting to 30 MPH, 48 KPH, while cumulus clouds passed by in the deep blue sky.

This resulting photo is not blurred, as every frame was properly focused, but the passing clouds and blowing foliage bend into indistinct forms.

Photographed on April 24, 2010 with my Sigma SD14 through my Sigma 28mm EX DG Aspherical Macro lens at f/8, 50 x 1/60th, ISO 100.

Wind in the Willow on my site

That's a very good idea, Steaphany. It sort of has the same effect as the new 10 stop neutral density filter you can get. Did you use an electronic timer, or was it done manually? I think it would have been even more effective if the area below and behind the tree trunk had been a hard landscape, so just the upper tree and sky had 'moved'. Difficult to find a location like that though. Well done for doing something different.

[Steaphany]

I saw a shot like this yesterday going for up to $9,000! That ain't fair - mine's better

Rob,

There is something that you need to remember about photography that you see for sale - The price is set by the photographer or somebody trying to make sales, not some auction house and certianly not photo buyers. I have yet to find a photo print sales web site that allows the buyer to pay what they think a piece is worth.

You need to take these photo sale prices as a measure of the photographers ego.

Now, as a photographer yourself, you should wonder, "Did anyone ever buy a print of that photo ?" If so, why did they feel that price was acceptable ?

I know a guy who sets print sale priceses for his work at $11,871.99 for a print that is not even an 8x10. For a 40x60 it goes up to $63,788.49 !!! I once asked if any of his work ever sold. The answer was "No", he has had people interested in buying his work, but they backed out when he wouldn't lower the price. He did admit that occasionally, his work will sell on greeting cards, where the price ends up being $7.98.

A print price of $9K is completely fair, whether that print ever sells, that is the real measure of it's value and appeal.

[Steaphany]

Did you use an electronic timer, or was it done manually?

Rob,

Yes, I used an interval timer that I got to do time lapse work. Just set it to shoot 50 exposures with a 20 second interval. To merge the 50 images, I used Registax, an astronomical stacking program, which created a single image where each pixel was set to the average of the corresponding pixels of the 50 source frames.

Thanks for the complement.

[Donald]

What an amzing thread. When you started it, Rob, I thought there would be a few images posted, but ....!

Didn't know there were so many of us with 'thing' about trees. Mightily impressive images in here.

[carregwen]

What an amzing thread. When you started it, Rob, I thought there would be a few images posted, but ....!

Didn't know there were so many of us with 'thing' about trees. Mightily impressive images in here.

To be fair (and aren't I always?) it was really Bleys that prompted it, as I stated in post #1.

[carregwen]

Ice puddle muddle A broken ice-puddle reveals a tree. Ortonised in CS4.

[Yan Zhang]

I love trees too. In the last two years I have taken a number of photos on trees. This one is one of my favorites, and I never posted to anywhere before:-)

[carregwen]

I love trees too. In the last two years I have taken a number of photos on trees. This one is one of my favorites, and I never posted to anywhere before:-)

I love the simple style of some of your shots. This is good.