On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:57 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2011-09-20 23:21 Larry Colen wrote >> > > i also wonder if you've seen James Balog's work depicting big trees by > assembling multiple images taken while ascending, or otherwise; i met him > when he'd just come out with _Survivors_, his series of animals on white > backgrounds (we used several of his photos in a magazine i produced), and i > have since been intrigued by each of what i think of as his experiments in > context (though, as experiments, they often are better at breaking ground > than at being aesthetic masterpieces) > > just a taste here, but interesting text: > > <http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200511/trees.asp>
I decided to try another tack, and tried shooting them at night using my studio strobe. Here are a couple of different treatments: showing the canopy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6169096452/ just disappearing into the darkness: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6168563119/ The whole experiment is here: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627594004271/ I think that the answer really will involve shooting them from an entirely different angle, though I might be able to do something incorporating people. If I had some gymnastically inclined folks, I could incorporate the tree into some sort of human totem pole .... -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
