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aurora marques 6 months ago

wonderful......

Arild Heitmann 3 years ago

Amazing!

Armand Belakow Thanks!

Brin 3 years ago

Beautiful picture!

Armand Belakow Thank you, Brin!

jared berge 3 years ago

Beautiful work

Armand Belakow Thanks!

Njordfoto 3 years ago

Wow this is really beautifull! its alive. fine art :)

Armand Belakow Many thanks! I'm glad you like it.

Stefan Dusicka 3 years ago

very nice

Armand Belakow Thanks, Stefan!

Northman 3 years ago

Really love this picture! Great colors and lines!

Armand Belakow Glad you like it, Northman!

Semir 3 years ago

Beautful picture, and good work

/Semir :)

Armand Belakow Thanks you, Semir!

Dragan M. Babovic 3 years ago

Beautiful game of light and shapes.

Armand Belakow Many thanks, Dragan!

Niels Christian Wulff 3 years ago

So cool this one!!! I would love to know how it is made..?? :-)
/Wulff

Armand Belakow Hi Wulff!
This was my first attempt at this type of photography/composition/editing.
As much as I'd like to say that I have created the effect in-camera, I did not, it's mainly photoshopped.
I used a 105mm lens to for the shot to compress the scene as in this case it's better if it looks a bit flat.
Then I used the best frame and made two duplicate layers - one to add some glow (simply by changing the blending mode to "screen") and with the other I applied a vertical "motion blur" effect. At first I made it a very strong effect (could be abt. 200..? not sure anymore...) and then reduced it - at first by reducing the opacity of the layer, then I applied a layer mask to the same (blurred) layer and with a black coloured brush painted away the effect in those places I did not want it, as you can see on some tree trunks (to add some depth - a bit contradictory :-)) and the green leaves.
Now the mystery is gone :-) Hope this was what you wanted to know.
brgds
Armand

Niels Christian Wulff Thank you so much!! Very kind of you, to offer this nice explanation :-)
Thank's

/Wulff

Armand Belakow Oh, I forgot one thing. To create the glow, at first I applied a "Gaussian blur" filter (abt. 6 to 10) to the layer before changing it's blending mode to "Screen". That gives a nice glowing effect.
You're welcome! ;-)

yuan 3 years ago

pretty ;) salam senyum -u1-

Armand Belakow Thanks!

mapiguerrini 3 years ago

uauuu...excellent

Armand Belakow Thank you, glad you like it!

Rosalinde Philippin-Lipscomb 3 years ago

JUST WONDERFUL !

Armand Belakow Thanks Rosalinde!

Juha Saransalmi 3 years ago

Carola said it! Very beautiful image, Armand!

Armand Belakow Many thanks,Carola!

Carola Lundmark 3 years ago

Very beautiful. Looks like gold in those leafs..
~ Carola ~

Armand Belakow That was my first thought, when I saw the scene. Thank you!

Cheron 3 years ago

Hmm ... Like it ;)

Armand Belakow Thanks, Cheron!

dorothée rapp 3 years ago

great to see it here too! a wonderful image :)

Armand Belakow Yes, well, I should have done it vice versa, so nobody knew, whose work this is. But hopefully this hasn't affected the fact of it being published. Thanks, Dorothée!