I took all of these photos within roughly a mile of each other, along the Barton Pond with another one of this tri's students. This specific set of photos was taken from Longshore Dr, at the top of the hill. They others go progressively farther west and down. We went down to the river around sunset to take some photos of it. I've always liked photos of the sunset and sunrise, so doing a landscape seemed like a great reason to capture a sunset in it's full glory.
These were two of my favorite photos of one of the trees next to the path that we took down to the walking trail. There wasn't any particular rhyme or reason to the composition of these different shots, I was just looking for different ways to take photos of a singular tree that also incorporated the sunset.
I've found through taking this class that I really like taking photos at Dutch Angles, which I kind of leaned into with the simpler photo by darkening the landscape and upping the contrast, making the woods feel much more menacing than they actually are. The other photo was just taking another of a similar orientation and making it look like it was made on a canvas or something.
Now we're getting to some of my favorite photos from this batch. Once again, I leaned into making the forest seem menacing with the unfiltered photo, upping the contrast and lowering the gamma and offset. With my filtered photo, I took that one step farther, and messed with the curves so much that it turned into...this. Then I made it look like an oil painting. It is by far my favorite of these photos.
These two photos were taken out on a fallen tree that hangs out across the river. The unfiltered one was taken through some leaves that were left on the branches of it, while the painting was taken looking out at the river, with a branch reaching out across the frozen water. Again, when editing these photos I leaned into the dusk fact, making the darks darker and the lights lighter, both brightening and dimming the sunset at the same time.