Big Oak...

[Pete Askew]

leaf. Well, what else?! This one is just over twice the size of the last oak leaf.

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/like-leather.14621/

Hasselblad 503CW / Zeiss 120mm Macro Planar f1:4.0 CFi / PhaseOne P20 back. ISO 50, 1/30s at f1:16. PP in CaptureOne, LR, Nik ColorFX 4.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Nice, sinuous spine there. Beautiful.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Rob.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Sinuous!! Excellent choice of word Rob!

I think I like the smaller leaf where the detail is a little more in your face ... If you follow Pete? It's sorta what the images feel like they should be about for me, the normally unacknoledged extent of detail ... If that makes sense?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Sorry to cut our call short AGAIN by the way Pete, I realise I do it every time!

 

[Pete Askew]

No problem Hamish. I know exactly what you mean and I was looking at this again this evening and thinking this would be much more interesting in close-up. It is still in the clamp and so I will re-shoot it tomorrow. It also looked old from behind with the light shining through but I was too lazy to move things!

 

[Pete Askew]

This is a crop. Much more interesting. @Hamish Gill

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes! Much better. Gorgeous. And still sinuous

 

[Brian Moore]

I like the cropped version better, Pete. A wee bit red in it and it could be a Martian landscape as seen from not-too-distant space.

 

[Paul Lange]

I like it too and it reminds me that I really need to work on my lighting skills.

 

[Pete Askew]

A re-shoot it is then!

 

[Dave Green]

Oh aye - croptastic!