I like this. Normally these falling snow shots have a largely dead background. The snow rendered here in a pleasing fashion against a deeply colored background.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for looking, Rick, and for your kind comments. > > I tried several different shutter speeds to try to depict the falling > snow. Faster speeds stopped the action, but showed how large the snow > flakes were. Slower speeds blurred the flakes too much, until they > began to resemble fog. 1/20 th of a second seemed to best show both > the size of the flakes and the speed at which they were falling. > > The contrast between the snow and the red dogwood leaves are what > caused me to grab the camera and head outdoors in the first place. > The greenery in the background I think helps to illustrate that this > is an early and unexpected snowfall. > > Fan > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> I really like this shot, Dan. The shutter speed is just right, and the >> colorful tree surrounded by green makes an excellent background. >> >> Rick >> >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Cc: >> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 11:32 AM >> Subject: PESO: October Snow >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14955252 >> >> Comments are invited. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
