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Pic of the Day #594

I caught sight of this log almost in passing — we were hurrying along the path, and I just happened to turn my head to look at it as I went. What follows isn’t necessarily the best picture I’ve ever taken, but it was a chance to mess around a little bit with depth of field.

Where was this taken?

What I really liked about the log — what drew me to it as a photographic subject, I guess one could say — was the way most of its branches were broken off, leaving just a series of little stubs that ran along its length; there’s something about repeating visual patterns that I’m drawn to. The colour was nice as well — this was a fairly sunlit part of the forest, and the moss in particular did very well here — it was a vibrant, intense green.

Edit-wise, this shot was fairly simple to edit; I applied the usual calibration/Punch preset, some noise reduction, and a few minor saturation adjustments to further accentuate the green and brown hues in the shot. I probably could have done better in terms of portraying DOF, but I’m not going to complain too much — the pattern of the broken branches looks better for not being quite so blurry, I think.