The Pin Oak Leaf and Faux Mat

Pin Oak Leaf

I have been enjoying the way the oak leaves change colors in the autumn.  We have at Gorman many small trees, in the meadow, so that I can reach the leaves to photograph them.  I wasn't happy with this one right after the shoot.  I wanted to eliminate the reflections of the sky on the water and failed.  The focus was not as sharp overall as I had planned, either.  

I read in Outdoor Photography magazine an article by George Lepp describing how to make a Faux Mat.  I wanted an image with which to try the technique.  I started looking back through my database of recent shots and this was the one I chose.  I ran through the technique, made a print, and set it out so I could see it often each day.  The more I looked the more I liked it.  The faux mat brought out the violet in the image.  That helped also.  With the mat it looks like this.

 

The mat is printed by the printer.  You don't use mat board in front.  You have to shim the print so that it does not touch the glass.  You just mount the print and frame.  If you wanted to coat the print you could probably frame it without glass.  I just love it!  I used one of my 11x14 satin black frames, not shown.  The one drawback is that I don't have a really large printer so that I can print on large paper.

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