Big tree roots

womble
Posted 14/12/2019 - 12:54 Link
I've been sorting out my Lightroom libraries etc. after a series of events I won't bore you with and rediscovering old images I had never worked on before. This one was shot using a Pentax MX, SMC Pentax "K" 17mm fisheye and Fuji Neopan 100 film.

Camperdown cemetery, Sydney, 2013.

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Sydney tree roots par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
LennyBloke
Posted 14/12/2019 - 13:05 Link
Perfect choice of lens for that shot

The composition is spot-on, looks like the lighting wasn't easy to manage but you've done a brilliant job
LennyBloke
womble
Posted 14/12/2019 - 13:41 Link
LennyBloke wrote:
Perfect choice of lens for that shot

The composition is spot-on, looks like the lighting wasn't easy to manage but you've done a brilliant job
Finding an angle without cars or the sun straight into the lens was a real problem. In the end, I picked a viewpoint with the sun directly behind the trunk. Those roots are huge, it isn't just the fisheye!
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Posted 14/12/2019 - 20:14 Link
Fine composition... gt drama...

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alfpics
Posted 15/12/2019 - 09:21 Link
What a superb image Kris; worth digging out and showing!
Andy
Lubbyman
Posted 15/12/2019 - 10:11 Link
Impressive, both visually and technically. Well worth the time spent finding the right angle. The tree seems to be reaching out to grasp the photographer (and viewer:shock.

Are you sure it's a tree and not an elderly Ent from Middle Earth?

Steve
Sry
Posted 15/12/2019 - 21:55 Link
Beautiful tree, and image. Your PP is spot on - no need to dramatize.

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