Yes that's exactly what I was looking for. Tried a color version http://tinyurl.com/cogg87
Desaturated the blue sky which spoils the fresh green. Personally I prefer the B&W rendering. Toine 2009/4/24 Graydon <[email protected]>: > Well... > > There's this brief -- usually only a day for each species of tree where > I live -- when the new leaves are visibly _new_; a paler, more > translucent colour, unworn, and somehow shining with newness. Catch > that in a sunny evening or morning and it's magical. > > So far as I can tell from the desaturated version, you have caught that > moment or something very much like it; the tree has just come into full > leaf, the angle of the sun is low, everything is shining. (Shining > around some quite splendid bark textures on the shiny side of the tree, > even.) > > But because that image is so strongly associated with greenness, and > indeed one very specific once-a-year greenness, taking the green out of > the image breaks the association with all those springtimes and makes > it an image of complex light and shadow, rather than an image of a > leafing tree. (Which is not to say that my conscious mind can't figure > out it's a tree! A botanist wouldn't have much trouble getting species > from this picture. The break is with the existing emotional > associations with spring and trees.) > > That might be -- could well be! -- precisely what you want. > > If you want it to look like spring, though, I think you need to put the > green in it. > -- 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.
