Dead Garden

[Don Schaeffer]

after first frost

[Xia_Ke]

Don, I don't know what it is about that second shot but, for some reason I love it...LOL Has a very cool feel to it. Mind if I ask what you did for processing to it?

[MB1]

Those are nice compositions and I do like the colors but the second image sure looks out of focus. I don't see anything sharp in it, camera movement?

[SmartWombat]

What did you do with the first image?
Looks like you used high ISO, underexposed, then over-sharpened.
Interesting effect, it's almost an edge highlighting.

I agree, the second one looks plain out of focus.
But the colours and shapes are interesting.
Was this a kind of diffuse glow filter you applied ?

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks guys. It's just my little technique of fusing ultra sharpened images with unsharpened images. The effect depends on the degree of merger. In the first shot the % of oversharpen is closer to 50%. I don't know why the purple looks out of focus, but some colors just do.

[reverberation]

I think the first shot is outstanding. Perfectly balanced, with a use of color that is so extreme that it become a component of composition.