Winter Holiday

[Astramael]

Happy Holidays, folks.

It's been awhile, lots of life transitions... but back into photography. I've been working on putting less into my shots. Realizing that in photography, less is more. I have to get better about looking around the frame and make compositions more essential and more pure.

Today's photo is cheating a bit. Shooting into the night sky makes it easy to have less stuff in your frame! I wanted to combine the clearly frigid snow with the warmth of the light. Evoking a little of the classic Hollywood holiday feeling. The various purple flares and halos provided a bit of a fantastical quality that was an unexpected bonus. The noise is a little high because too much reduction started to steal away the faint snowy flakes that make the image work for me.



50mm (@35mm), 1/80th sec, f/1.4, ISO1600
Olympus OM-D E-M5, Leica DG Summilux 25/f1.4

Note: Some of the dynamic resizing being done with lightbox is messing up the gradients and turning them into kind of a mess. Here's a link to a bigger copy with better compression, 2.1MB JPEG: http://eos.astramael.com/cambridgein...233393-big.jpg

Comments and criticism always welcome.

[madcrow]

No criticism just praise, I like it.

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[Wavelength]

Very nice image

[Astramael]

Thank you all.

Don't worry, next time I won't cheat so much and will actually force myself to use judgement with the background.