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I was looking for the aspen groves while driving through the Bow Valley Parkway. And I found this perfect aspen trees with the Castle Mountain background. I am presenting the image of snow covered aspens of the beauty and tranquility. This image doesn't show the mountain, though.

Aspens are known as "trembling aspens" in Canada, they are usually called "quaking aspens" in the United States.

Thanks for looking.






Edited on Dec 22, 2014 at 06:00 PM · View previous versions



Dec 22, 2014 at 05:55 PM
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What a beautiful moment, love the lines and color, i would crop the branches on the left, without the tree it looks really weird...

;-0

Andrey



Dec 22, 2014 at 05:59 PM
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Thanks for your comment, Andrey


Dec 22, 2014 at 06:10 PM
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Beautiful scene and capture! I'm with Andrey and would crop those branches out. Personally, with those removed I think it would make it an even stronger photograph. Great work!


Dec 22, 2014 at 06:19 PM
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lionking wrote:
What a beautiful moment, love the lines and color, i would crop the branches on the left, without the tree it looks really weird...

;-0

Andrey


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Jim Servies wrote:
Beautiful scene and capture! I'm with Andrey and would crop those branches out. Personally, with those removed I think it would make it an even stronger photograph. Great work!


Jim and Andrey,

I cloned those branches on the left side and cropped tiny space there to balance the image. I am posting the revised one below. Thanks!








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Dec 22, 2014 at 06:34 PM
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IMHO much better.
:-)



Dec 23, 2014 at 04:04 AM
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Looks great Kee! Hang that one on the wall!


Dec 23, 2014 at 03:20 PM
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lionking wrote:
IMHO much better.
:-)


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Jim Servies wrote:
Looks great Kee! Hang that one on the wall!


Thanks Jim and Andrey for checking the revised image. I have included a little bit of the top portion of the image to have better overall balance of the image. The stretching tree branches of the left top portion is what does the job, IMHO.
Thanks again for your comments!! Have a wonderful Holiday!



Dec 24, 2014 at 04:13 PM
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I love aspens!
Second crop is nice, but I would go even further and crop off the fir tree on the right. Also, you need some color/tone correction. Aspen bark (at least here in Arizona) is silvery-white, and your trees are darker and yellowish gray. But maybe its just a different variety...

Sasha.



Dec 25, 2014 at 12:45 AM
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alatoo60 wrote:
I love aspens!
Second crop is nice, but I would go even further and crop off the fir tree on the right. Also, you need some color/tone correction. Aspen bark (at least here in Arizona) is silvery-white, and your trees are darker and yellowish gray. But maybe its just a different variety...

Sasha.


Good morning Sasha,

I value your comments. I will check to see how it looks after taking the fir tree on the right side off. I checked all the shots of the aspen trees and I noticed that the aspens over there seem to have yellowish gray.

Kee

ps: perhaps the following revised image will be close to what you recommend,







Dec 26, 2014 at 08:33 AM
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Kee Woo Rhee wrote:
perhaps the following revised image will be close to what you recommend


Kee, yes, that looks much closer to the processing I had in mind, except that now snow on the bottom is too bright, losing the texture. If you could perhaps apply gradient mask, preserving the tonality of the bottom while brightening the aspens, that would be great.

Sasha.




Dec 26, 2014 at 10:35 PM
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alatoo60 wrote:
Kee, yes, that looks much closer to the processing I had in mind, except that now snow on the bottom is too bright, losing the texture. If you could perhaps apply gradient mask, preserving the tonality of the bottom while brightening the aspens, that would be great.

Sasha.



Here is another which has more snow texture on the foreground. :-)









Dec 27, 2014 at 04:46 AM





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