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December 23, 2007. Pin Oak Leaf In Snow. Near East Bangor, Pennsylvania.

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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH

TECHNICAL

COMPOSITIONAL

While I was walking somewhere near East Bangor, PA. I saw leaves scattered  in the snow on the ground. The snow had seemed to melt around the edges of the leaves, leaving  indentations/shadowed areas around the  leaves.

I framed the leaf vertically.  This is something I rarely do but because the pattern of  this particular leaf, a Pin Oak, reminded me of a Christmas Tree the framing seemed appropriate.

Because the leaf was lying  in the snow, I wanted  to impart a cold “feeling” into the  photograph so I set  my white  balance to fluorescent because, since the kelvin (color) temperature of  fluorescent light is less than the kelvin temperature of  the cloudy lighting conditions  that were  available,  I knew I would get a slightly blue  color cast  to the  white  snow.

I metered  off of  the white snow and overexposed by somewhere between 2 or  three stops. My intention was to bring the snow as close to white as possible via  exposure, but leave a darker blue cast  in the darker/shadowed/  areas of  the leaf that were caused by the melting under/around the leaf.

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