Four Trees

Posted by Russ Devan (New Hanover, United States) on 4 December 2008 in Landscape & Rural.

This is a scene from northern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Souderton.

The dreamy, blurry effect is not from any photoshop enhancements this time, but was achieved by using a Cokin P840 filter. Typically, I use this filter (and its brother, the P830 filter) when I'm shooting glamour photography to soften the skin of the subject and give the image a dreamlike quality. After initially shooting this scene without a filter, I decided that it needed something, so I quickly slid the P840 into my filter holder and reshot. Back when I was a starving college student, I achieved this same effect by smearing a light coating of petroleum jelly on a UV filter. However, the amount of blur wasn't as consistent across the entire image as using a filter made for this purpose. But, it got the job done and saved me a few bucks.

"The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."
- Zen Buddhist Text

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