Different views and colors

          It is amazing what a difference a little editing will do to an image. With that in mind, your loyal blogger had a little fun with some images and included them in this blog.

          The Photoshop program has many options for dressing an image, but these images have had very little work done to them, except for cropping and switching from color to black and white.

Here is a series of pictures taken within a short period of time, roughly 90 minutes, and all within a quarter of a mile of each other. The location is the area near Dalton’s Ford on the Chickamauga battlefield in Georgia and your loyal blogger was there around midday. You can tell from the colors that the images were captured in late winter.

These views are the same image. My feet did not move from
their spots while producing the two images. The difference
is in the camera positions.

 

 

 

Cropping can make a dramatic difference in how you see the subject matter but the most important cropping begins with the camera in your hands.

 

 

These first images show the same view from the same position, same camera and same lens. The difference is that one shows the standard horizontal view while the other shows the camera turned vertical.

Do you see how the different views impact the look of the area? The path is narrow (believe me). The horizontal view sort of pulls you in, which is a neat effect by itself, and the vertical makes you feel the tight confines.

These images come from the same original. Which
do you like better?

 

Now look at the images from next to the creek. Typically, yours truly likes the black and white look. But in this case, the loss of color takes something away. Look at the shallows on the right side of the color image. See the lighter color? You lose part of that color change in the black and white image. The tradeoff is the stark look the black and white image gives the creek bed. The color image, with the hint of greens in some parts of the picture, is less forbidding.

The walking path is cropped and changed to black and white.

These same areas, visited in spring or summer, are very lush and green. Color images might be more pleasing in the middle of the year.

That said, the dark, stark look is fun to work with as well.

Same original image again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This visit was in late winter because the landscape is easier to see with trees that have not yet grown leaves. Researching Chickamauga is easier when the trees are naked because you can see longer distances in wooded areas and that gives you a better appreciation for the landscape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          Thanks for reading.