I reserve the right to change my mind!

The September 14th blog was about an image of a sundog at Gorman Nature Center. 

Sept. 14th blog

I really liked the image as you might remember.  I just got around to making a print of this and discovered that I was liking it less and less.  I looked at it for several days trying to decide what I disliked about it.  I finally decided that there were too few mid tones probably because they had changed to low tones in the print.  I went back and reworked part of it bringing out the mid-tones for the print and I am starting to like it again.  I have known that I cannot leave the print with what I see on the monitor and assume that it will print that way.  I just reviewed the previous blog and noticed that those mid-tones were there in the original but had been lost in the print.  This happens sometimes because the image on the monitor is back-lit.  The image on a print is reflected light and even though the computer system is calibrated, appears different.  The low tones tend to block in a print.  It is a shortcoming of the printer.

Gorman Sundog

  Compare this one to the one shown on Sept. 14.  You may have trouble seeing much difference but the difference of the prints is very notable.

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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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