Forest in Pastels | Info + Comments (13)

I was recently reading an article about the impressionistic work of photographer Ted Leeming. The showcased images were very interesting and fresh even though the article didn't mention how he produces those images, it mentioned that he is doing everything in-camera. After looking at those images I got a vague idea on how he produced the images.

This morning I had a little time off, and went to the forest in the neighborhood and experimented a little with this technique. And I can tell you... I had a blast! I was there only very short time, since I only wanted to try this technique a little, but when I looked at the images back home at the computer I was amazed on the outcome and wished I would have stayed a little longer. I decided to quickly post this one, even though I'm not 100% happy with the composition here. It is really very inspiring to work like this.

From the processing point, I have done nothing else than some color/white balance adjustments and cropping in Lightroom and some minor color adjustments and levels in Photoshop.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you like it. 

 

  • Canon
  • Canon EOS 5D
  • F32
  • 2 sec
  • 70.0 mm
  • 50
  • -1
  • Aperture priority
  • Flash did not fire, auto
  • Multi-segment

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: Impressionism : 06:28PM Aug 28, 2008
Comments:
Wow! I want to know how you do that. It's all the same a successful attempt!

Posted by Anthony Mahieu on August 28, 2008 at 11:04 PM EEST #

Very painterly! I love it! I just looked up Ted Leemings website and boy does he have some beautiful photographs in his Impression series. Thanks for sharing. And if you feel like telling us how you did this...I will be all ears!

Posted by Debbie Hartmann on August 29, 2008 at 04:51 AM EEST #

Sehr geil - bis auf die 3 hellen Streifen sieht das aus wie ein Gemälde. Toll !

Posted by Martin Gommel on August 29, 2008 at 02:10 PM EEST #

I have a photographer friend in Oregon who does this type of work and I've always been blown away with it...excellent job!

Posted by Susan on August 29, 2008 at 04:19 PM EEST #

Thanks a lot for your comments. I'm very happy that you liked my first attempt in creating such an image. For those interested to know, how I have made this, I would like to refer you to my blog (link is in the header). I will try to write a little "how-to" after some more experimenting during this weekend.
@Martin: Freut mich sehr, das Dir das Foto gefällt. Ich bin mit den 3 Streifen (da ist der Wald tätsächlich zuende und dahinter ist ein Weg und viel mehr Licht) auch nicht so Gluecklich. Wollte die in PS entfernen, hab das aber nicht so gut hinbekommen und es dann gelassen. Wenn ich mal etwas mehr Zeit habe, probier ich's vielleicht nochmal.

Posted by Sven on August 29, 2008 at 07:57 PM EEST #

Klasse Foto und eine interessante Technik (vor allem weil OOC), gefällt mir sehr gut. Trotz des gemäldeartig anmutenden Gesamteindrucks sind die Strukturen noch sehr gut zu erkennen.

Posted by Uwe on August 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM EEST #

Love the artistic look and feel of this image. Well done.

Posted by Al on September 02, 2008 at 04:00 PM EEST #

This is new and different. It is more like painting, like traditional art.
Thanks for posting so much information about it! It makes me want to try it out myself!
You have captured a wonderful atmosphere in the forest, hard to imagine how it would have been with ordenary focus!

Posted by Framed and Shot on September 04, 2008 at 03:25 AM EEST #

c'est très beau cette fusion-confusion

Posted by lasiate on September 04, 2008 at 12:23 PM EEST #

Very nice experiment with the camera shaking technique. I have tried this technique too and you can see some of my results here, here and there. I'd love to share my experience with you.

Posted by Jacques Bron on September 04, 2008 at 08:58 PM EEST #

Thanks a lot to all of you for your nice words on my image.
For those interested in this technique, I have posted a little "How-To" here: http://17mm.pixyblog.com/entry/panning-still-objects
@Jacques: Looks and sounds great, would like to share with you also.

Posted by Sven on September 05, 2008 at 03:23 AM EEST #

This is very successful for a first attempt, I like it very much. Now I am going to read how to do it and cannot what to go and try for myself. Keep Experimenting!

Posted by Eric on September 05, 2008 at 07:55 PM EEST #

This is something new. I don´t know how you do it, but I know that in Photoshop, using the filter "Impressionist", can be obtain the painting effect, and much more!

Intristing picture. I like it!

Posted by el_extranjero (the stranger) on October 08, 2008 at 12:43 AM EEST #

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