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Published: 2011-04-15 20:38:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 176; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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The April snowstorm came with wind which left snow stuck to the bark of our large Ponderosa Pine trees - I've always loved the patterns and colors of Ponderosa Pine bark. April 2011, Northern Arizona.Related content
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Nice find, the patterns in the bark are really great. The spots of snow add a great contrast to the image. Overall it appears to lack a little bit of detail, but it still looks great!
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Thank you! Again, kind of dark conditions for this photo. I had to do a little lightening and other small adjustments to get the colors to come out. I'm wondering if that might have affected the sharpness a little? I'll have to take a look at the original again when I get home.
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Okay, from the colors and light in this one I would not have suspected bad lighting conditions. You certainly did a great job of cleaning that one up! It's really tough to get natural colors out of underexposed images and sadly it often adds a lot of noise to the image. That could certainly be the cause of the lacking details.
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I'd say it was. I know as I started making adjustments, I had to be very careful as some just added way to much noise. I may play with this a little more. Actually, what I need to do is find some truly OLD Ponderosa Pines as their bark can be gorgeous. This one is probably only 50 years old or so.
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Well, here's one hoping you'll find one
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hey, this reminds me I should go to the park and take photos of trees
cool photo! the pattern sure is awesome 
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No bother at all! Actually for a while I'd forgotten to mention the type of camera anywhere. I use a Kodak DX7590. It's a slighly advanced point & shoot - it has settings that allow me a lot more control over exposure & so forth. It also has the advantage of having an adapter that allows me to add filters and filter-style lenses. So, for example, on most of my landscapes, I have used a polorizer filter to cut the glare and increase contrast (so the sky darkens and clouds stand out better). For close-ups, the camera has a "close-up" setting that allows closer focusing (that's what I used on this photo). For extreme close-ups and macros, I have a set of screw-on macro lenses (that's what I used for the spiders, grasshopper & so forth). It's a very good camera, which is, alas, no longer available from Kodak. You can still find them used from time to time. The filter adapter is a bit harder to find.
And thank you for the comment on this photo. I really like it, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
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awesome! =O
I already know that there are cameras you can attach cool lenses to but I've never seen it happen
I just adjust the colours digitally
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Well ... that works too! Actually, on this photo ("Snow on the Tree") I still had to do a little "tweaking" of contrast and so forth. The photo was taken on a heavily overcast day (it was still snowing), so this was a bit grayer than it is now ... the phinished photo shows the real colors much better.
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oh ok =o
by the way, adjusting colours doesn't count as photo manipulation, does it?
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Hmmm... I don't know for sure ... I guess it depends on how much you adjust them? On this, all I did really was increase the contrast a little then did an "auto adjust" in photo explosion (or my Kodak software ... don't remember for sure now ... been a long week at work). In any case, these were pretty minor adjustments ... I didn't actually add color. Now this obviously couldn't be submitted to a contest where the rules state that you can't digitally manipulate the photo at all. But, the things I've done here are about the same as one might do in a dark room when one was printing photos from film.
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oh... I guess that means I should change the directories of most of my photos
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Well, I suppose to some extent, it's up to you to decide when you have done a major manipulation as opposed to simply fixing slight exposure or contrast issues. I had entered a few photos in a National Geographic contest ... rules stated that you had to upload the original photo with no changes at all - no cropping or adjusting of any kind. I abided by those rules. On here, since this is an "art" site, I can do what I want and call it what I want (up to a point). I consider "manipulated" photos to be those where major changes to color have been made (such as making everything yellow) or distortions have been made, and so on. That's my thinking on it anyway...
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