Ian Bramham's Photoblog
Windworn
Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 12 March 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
A photo of some windworn trees on the NW coast of England.
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John Leech from Grange-over-Sands, United Kingdom
There is a lot of personification and character in this group. Nicely seen.
12 Mar 2009 3:55pm
@John Leech: Thanks John....achieving a decent composition was surprisingly difficult with this group of trees for some reason.
Anna.C from LA ROCHELLE, France
the three poor solitary trees, you know at once the direction of the wind ! nice composition and monochrome
12 Mar 2009 4:04pm
@Anna.C: Thanks Ana...coming from a coastal town yourself you must be used to the sight of these wind formed trees too.....they make great subjects for photos don't they!
@john4jack: Thanks very much!
Sof from Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Un cadrage extra pour ces arbres et un traitement qui me plaît bien
12 Mar 2009 5:46pm
@Sof: Thanks Sof!
@mathieu: Thanks....I took about 40 photos in this spot trying to get a decent composition....it was surprisingly difficult (maybe I had the wrong lens on my camera)
mo.langel from Courtelary, Switzerland
Très belle composition, un cadrage extra, superbe traitement!
12 Mar 2009 6:13pm
@mo.langel: Thanks for that!
Claus Petersen from herfølge, Denmark
I really love the wind blown feeling of this one! Nice work!
12 Mar 2009 7:44pm
@Claus Petersen: Thanks Claus....these type of wind formed trees make great subjects for photos.
@Suzanne: Thanks Suzanne.....I really struggled with getting a simple looking composition here. I took about 40 photos and all the others are too complex or have something wrong with them.
Enrique Vidal Vijande from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
This is a really beautiful image! It seems to have a lot of motion because of the shape of the trees! I'm sure it must look beautiful in a print! Congratulations on your new website, its really nice and the photos on it are very well selected!
12 Mar 2009 8:45pm
@Enrique Vidal Vijande: Thanks very much Enrique....I'm really pleased you like the new website. I need to update it soon with some more photos.
@Batkoï: Thanks Batkoï
Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada
A perfect classic. I really like the tree "evolution". Excellent!
12 Mar 2009 9:38pm
Wayne Molyneux from Crewe, United Kingdom
Smashing compsition & a very effective tone too. Congratulations on afine piece of photography.
Wayne
12 Mar 2009 10:33pm
Ted from South Wales, United Kingdom
Great vision in the first place! The tone and everything else says 'Bramham.'
Great stuff!
12 Mar 2009 10:58pm
613photo from United States
Nice work. Love the sky. You did an excellent job with it. And of course the foreground and trees look great too. Toning is perfect...not too much, not too little. Just right.
12 Mar 2009 11:15pm
Andy from United States
I love the bleak landscape and how these three trees seem to be the only ones in view.
12 Mar 2009 11:25pm
amy from Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Beautiful. (and I love how you've demonstrated the third's rule LOL!!)
13 Mar 2009 3:19am
Mike from Lichfield, United Kingdom
Another stunning image. Is there any reason why you mostly use ISO 200?
13 Mar 2009 6:41am
@Mike: Mike....iso 200 is the lowest native iso that the Nikon D40 works at. Anything lower than that doesn't bring any increase in image quality but loses a stop of available shutter speed if you are hand holding the camera like I was here. It's one of the hidden advantages of the D40 over the D40x which needs a lowest native iso of 100 to achieve the same degree of image quality. I'm assuming it's a by product of the fact that the D40 only has 6 megapixels so the pixel density of the sensor is a lot lower.
Viewfinder from Bradenton, FL, United States
This has Ansel Adams qualities, Ian. Really nice. I'd hang this on my wall.
13 Mar 2009 11:55am
Marcie from United States
Love the mood. There's an emptiness..about this that I absolutely adore.
13 Mar 2009 11:56am
IanSmith from London, United Kingdom
Nicely done Ian... I'm a huge fan of weatherworn things.
13 Mar 2009 1:29pm
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
Exquisite, I love trees and these are so sweepingly delicate...your photographs are to live for...
13 Mar 2009 2:30pm
Michael Rawluk from Williams Lake, BC, Canada
It looks like a bad hair day. Wonderful processing.
14 Mar 2009 4:13am
Michael Paulison from United States
Not to sound corny, but this is a National Geographic quality shot in originality, composition and tone. Those pictures to me jump off the screen and make you stare at them. You wonder about the place and wish you'd taken the shot yourself. Gorgeous in every way.
14 Mar 2009 4:50am
Momo from Montpellier, France
trees are just great...wonderful landscape Ian, I wonder if these are sleeping for winter or if they've died, no matter, beautiful all the same...oh, and thanks for the 'fit out' explanation...
14 Mar 2009 1:57pm
Giovanni from Milan, Italy
This is a very fine composition! Love the diagonal line of the trees. Stunning b&w as always. Great shot!
15 Mar 2009 10:03am
Aaron Schmidt from Auckland, New Zealand
Simplicity ... definitely one of your fortés. Love how the tree branch is pointing directly into the corner. Great framing.
15 Mar 2009 10:40am
MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany
Very convincing. When nature becomes a sculpture.
16 Mar 2009 4:04pm
Godo from Barcelona, Spain
Excellent diagonal composition and nice processing.
Obviously you know what you do
Great Ian
18 Mar 2009 9:12pm
Jessica from Victoria, Canada
I'm in love with your photography. I came across your blog today and started to look through all of your pictures and you have some incredible tallent. I cant wait to see what you post next...brilliant!
10 Apr 2009 11:51pm
Foto-aksent from Binkom, Belgium
Very nice photo! Great compo!
I visited also your portfolio. I am impressed! Excellent!
27 Aug 2009 1:24pm
Theys from Charleroi, Belgium
Un trés beau rendu avec une ambiance bien répartie,bravo !
10 Nov 2009 8:52pm
Nikon D40
1/60 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
15 mm (35mm equiv.)