Alaska Texture Shot

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This is one of those texture shots I've experimented with a bit. It is of some kind of bushy plant that grows near the tideline in the Kenai Fjords National Park.

Taken near Aialik Glacier. Pentax ZX-5, SMC-FA 50mm F1.7 lens, Bogen tripod and ball head, on either Provia or Velvia.

-- Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com), April 02, 1999

Answers

Very pleasing shapes and shades

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), April 02, 1999.

Very nice shot. The lighting creates a pleasant feel to the image. Exposure looks right on.

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), April 03, 1999.

As a fan of this sort of "texture shot" I know how often they can fail. This doesn't! The choice of the right magnification, and the arrangement of the leaves makes this more than just background. Of course the lighting is just right, too. Oh, and good technique has more than a little to do with the satisfactory capture of this image.

Congratulations.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), April 04, 1999.


Yes, I agree with what Frank and everyone else...a wonderful image, Mark!

You've caught this patch of Seabeach Sandwort (honkenya peploides) with perfection indeed! Great stuff.

-- Hans Buchholdt (hans.buchholdt@sealaska.com), April 05, 1999.


I like it very much but I do sense that the left edge of the photo has less dense foliage then the right edge. The left edge has more areas of light and dark then the right and this tends to draw my eye to the left more. Cropping in on the left a little evens out the edges and I find my eye roaming around more.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pcigeomatics.com), April 05, 1999.


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