Like a water colour painting…was I inspired by Turner’s sunset?
I captured this view with my Nikon D810 from my former house backyard that faced a conservative wood. The sunset gave the closed atmosphere a latent glow of red and orange that the camera’s exposure setting (my skill was still new) did not capture. That lack in intensity caused me to photoshop it with layers of blurring filters that produced a variety of possibilities. Voila! the sky deepened its blue, the fall leafless trees showed up in skeletal beauty, the bushes thrust themselves into a deep shadow, and thus a landscape emerged obeying the rules of foreground, mid-ground, and background that was hidden in the original photograph.
Landscape photography is not my forte, but the years of tackling the learning curve by doing it and shooting every subject I find, have given me bounteous fodder for making art with the other subjects that I have more interest in, such as people, street photos, and birds at flight. I always feel a sense of satisfaction at furthering some of the many perspectives that a picture seems to want you to see. I believe the perspectives are in the thousands, so I stopped fiddling when the picture itself declared that’s how it should look, enough cosmetics already!