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  Anonymous

  Good Rob! I just looked at all your birch photos again. It's a beautiful series with different perspectives. However, I like "birch forest" by far the best, firstly because of the overall composition of the picture and especially because a wonderful pastel sky blue shines through between the trees. Do you have any preferences regarding the birch series?

  • over 2 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  yes, that blue was only just an instance available..grr, would like to see it in this picture also. I like the perspective of B.forest you mention, with the foreground idea, which lacks above, but I find the trees somehow (too) narrow. Here, above the lines somehow make it feel massive. But like the details on the trunks. Although light a bit too gray. With an 2:3 image scale there would be more an horizontal landscape feeling possible. But I forgot that this ratio is adjustable in the camera.. Overall, I find the series a bit disappointing. I went back once, but light was not suitable at the time and in the series the first leaf was just fresh light green in the spring; that was also decisive and appropriate at the time. Altogether, I don't have a really favored one

  • over 2 years ago
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  Anonymous

  Interesting to follow your thoughts, Rob! Ansel Adams, whom you mentioned recently, actually went so far as to visit the location of his production sometimes several times, to explore the different moods in terms of light, season, vegetation, etc. before taking the photo. Most photographers - of which I am also one, by the way - feel inspired by something that becomes visible just at the moment of arrival (decisive moment) and close the case with it .... i think in retrospect one can make every picture "better", but this approach raises new questions

  • over 2 years ago
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  rob kaptein

  I let go of this, don't put my jaws into that matter as Landscape pro's seem to do. For me, the surprising moment, the freshness of spontaneity is an importent factor.

  • over 2 years ago

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