Fall Tree: I thought this tree would be very interesting to shoot. In Fall, I noticed that these leaves, in particular, were either decaying or eaten out and I absolutely loved it. Transition, If you can notice it, is actually in an oil painting style. You may have to zoom in to actually see it, but the strokes are there. Before I put in the oil painting style, I had trouble making the red leaves pop out, compared to the mess of trees in the background. The oil painting style really helped with that.
Forest: I took these photos at the end of my photoshoot, and by then, I was freezing. At these moments, it was snowing, and I really wanted to somehow imput that into these photographs, but it was so cold that I had to leave before I could. While coming up to this location, I thought it was interesting with this contrast of the green leaves to the brown bark, and the height difference. Like Transition, Wrong Season is in the oil painting form, but again, it's hard to see. By using a particular Monet oil painting, the green in the tree really stands out from the others, which I really like.
Pond: I, not literally, stumbled upon this location while following a trail around the area, and I'm very glad I did. I really wanted to take a grand picture of the whole thing, but many houses were across it, so I had to try to take these pictures without letting them into view, which was actually quite tasking. One random guy on the phone probably thought I was a weirdo with my sporadic picture taking. Like others, Icy is an oil painting. The Monet I chose had a lot of white in it, but occasionally there were some bright colors that shifted onto the plants in the photograph. At first, I really disliked it want wanted to change it, but the more I looked at it, the more it seemed to be just right.
Stream: I really loved this location. Mostly because the river or stream wasn't quite frozen, but also wasn't fully melted. Plus, there weren't any houses in the background, so I could take pictures as I pleased (except for one annoying shack to my left in Reflect). Flow Free is another oil painting, and I don't believe this one turned out quite as good as the others. The picture itself is more blurry and oddly taken than I like it, and the Monet should've been lighter. But, if you look very closely in the water in Flow Free, and you see the trees, I really like how the brush-strokes move up the bark, but that might just be me.
Trail: Finally, this location, I just adore. Just to be clear, nothing in these two are man-made, just wood logs places by people, so this is still a landscape. But, there was a blue trashcan at the top of the trail, which really annoyed me, but I cropped it out, so it's still a landscape. Open Road has to be my favorite picture in this photoshoot, just because of how the oil paint worked out in it. The leaves used to be dull, and the trees around it used to distract it, but with this particular Monet, and the oil paint, the leaves are more elegant, and the trees and logs are more bright, but not distracting. In Memories, I would've bent down and gotten more of a close-up to the snow crystals, if I had snowpants on and didn't mind getting frostbite. But, I think Memories turned out great.