I was amazed by the patterns and textures created by the embedded Autumn leaves in the frost and ice formed on the surface of the urban lake I walked around over New Year.
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Tag Archives: walks
Walk By The River
A Winter river walk on a beautiful day at the end of 2014. Reflections and memories, textures and patterns, colour and sunlight and new shoots for a new year.
Tree and Lake
Two alternative crops of one of the images from the StillWalks video “Winter Lakeside Walk” (see below).
Frosty Boardwalk – Depth and Breadth
Happy New Year 🙂
One Point of View – Multiple Options
Which structure to focus on? That was the question for me with this view over the lake at Llyn Llech Owain in Carmarthenshire. The portrait view could only include one tower. My choice was less about the scale of the architecture and more about the fact that the larger structure was partly hidden by the small trees in the middle distance. With the lake being partly hidden by the trees, there seems to me to be a greater sense of mystery about the scene.
Rock Rotation – Landscape and Portrait
Another image with two different crops from the StillWalks video “Winter Lakeside Walk” at Llyn Llech Owain in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Crop Rotation
This view can be seen at the start of the StillWalks video “Winter Lakeside Walk” which features Llyn Llech Owain in South West Wales. The widescreen video necessitates the landscape crop but to avoid the need to click and zoom on an image in this WordPress theme, the crop is better rotated to the portrait format.
I find cropping images a fascinating challenge and whilst this is first done when framing the shot on the camera, the requirements of different purposes and platforms such as square for Instagram as well as those below forces me to look at the photos with a new “focus” on their impact. It is not ideal to do heavy cropping of any image but where the output is for screen rather than print, this is not such a big issue.
The images I am posting this week are all from the “Winter Lakeside Walk” production shoot and each day will offer a landscape and portrait crop of the selected image. Which do you prefer?
Watch the video at the bottom of this post.
