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A Moment Forever Caught in Time

I have always been inspired by neoclassical paintings and the way light is captured and portrayed in those pieces.

When I went to Vienna and visited the Belvedere, a couple of years back, I became fascinated by, and, absorbed Franz Eybl's works. If I'm not mistaken, he was a student of Rembrandt's, and it really shows in his neoclassical masterpieces.

Since then, I've really strived to work on a photographic style which relies on my capturing of a scene in such a way that the interplay between light, shade and diffusion in the landscape elements, aids in providing a (somewhat neoclassical) painterly feel to the final composition without a huge digital processing outlay.

I think I've hit the nail on the head with this one and I feel as though it may be my best work to date.

In this scene, we see afternoon light diffused through very heavy mist, which is generated by large loads of water smashing against the ancient and weathered rock, after having fallen 161 metres (or almost 400 feet). The falling water forms suspended curtains, and in some violent regions, shapes form that appear to look like bulging knots moments before smashing onto the final rock which meets the lake. Here, the impact of the water forms jet sprays which when breaking the sound surface of the lake, give the illusion of shattered glass.

Once again, I made this image at Stirling Falls, Milford Sound in Fiordland, New Zealand.

This is a RAW blend processed for luminance in moss, exposure of rocks, falls, and lake.

Processing took place whilst consuming copious amounts of Mauritz von Oswald's downtempo minimalist M-series.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/100s f/5.6 at 17.0mm iso400

After a print? Leave me a message or send me a note. I do my own prints on a high-end professional series Epson printer using fine art archival baryta paper.

Description
A Moment Forever Caught in Time

I have always been inspired by neoclassical paintings and the way light is captured and portrayed in those pieces.

When I went to Vienna and visited the Belvedere, a couple of years back, I became fascinated by, and, absorbed Franz Eybl's works. If I'm not mistaken, he was a student of Rembrandt's, and it really shows in his neoclassical masterpieces.

Since then, I've really strived to work on a photographic style which relies on my capturing of a scene in such a way that the interplay between light, shade and diffusion in the landscape elements, aids in providing a (somewhat neoclassical) painterly feel to the final composition without a huge digital processing outlay.

I think I've hit the nail on the head with this one and I feel as though it may be my best work to date.

In this scene, we see afternoon light diffused through very heavy mist, which is generated by large loads of water smashing against the ancient and weathered rock, after having fallen 161 metres (or almost 400 feet). The falling water forms suspended curtains, and in some violent regions, shapes form that appear to look like bulging knots moments before smashing onto the final rock which meets the lake. Here, the impact of the water forms jet sprays which when breaking the sound surface of the lake, give the illusion of shattered glass.

Once again, I made this image at Stirling Falls, Milford Sound in Fiordland, New Zealand.

This is a RAW blend processed for luminance in moss, exposure of rocks, falls, and lake.

Processing took place whilst consuming copious amounts of Mauritz von Oswald's downtempo minimalist M-series.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/100s f/5.6 at 17.0mm iso400

After a print? Leave me a message or send me a note. I do my own prints on a high-end professional series Epson printer using fine art archival baryta paper.