Snow cap on thin black spruce
After receiving huge amounts of new snow over the past few weeks, we finally got a day where the sun managed to peak — weakly — through the clouds for a few hours. Since I was already on the west side of town, I decided to head out to the Wagner Natural Area where, I hoped, the dense spruce trees covered in deep snow would provide an interesting photographic opportunity or two.
It was more challenging than I expected — the huge amount of snow often looked like just a big pile slumped over everything, rather than contrasting or complimenting the forms of the trees. But a challenge can be good fun, and I did get a couple images that I’m quite happy with — I’ll share some more over the next little while.
Non-vignetted
The processing in this one was inspired by an image by a local photographer who I’ve mentioned before,
Joel Koop. He
posted an image on his blog that was heavily vignetted (darkened in the corners) in post-processing — and it looked great. I had already processed this one with a little bit of vignetting, but his image inspired me to try pushing it a bit further, and I think I like it this way. What do you think? (I’ve included the non-vignetted version here for comparison — use your arrow keys to switch between versions.)
