This is revisiting older shot. At the time that I did the initial processing I stopped there and then kind of just let it be. The other day my wife asked me I was going to do anything with this photograph, specifically print it and hang it - because she liked it.
So I pulled up raw file, and reprocessed it again and this was the result:
What I really like about it is the bleakness of the forest. This actually is part of the Black Forest in Germany, so "bleak", "black","bleak", "black" - that's where I get the title.
I wanted to do some postprocessing that would really emphasize what I perceive to be the bleakness and desolation of the environment. My first thought was a straight monochrome, but for some reason it came out particularly uninteresting. Here I ended up going with a monochrome plus a tint. This is somewhere between sepia and palladium tone:
Still not satisfied, I decided to do a bleach effect. NOW this is more like it. Beginning to have a little bit of a post apocalyptic feel to it.
But the more I looked at it the more I wasn't sure I liked how washed out that version was. Which ended up bringing me to this, I think the strong yellow tone does emphasize the feel that I was going for.
Still not sure which one can I hang. In print they all look pretty much like they do here, so no anomalies there to worry about.
I know that most of the processing is a little bit over the top, and perhaps an acquired taste, but nonetheless, "What say you, one and all?"
Rad
