August Ice

Hi Ron, interesting shot, I like the hill side with all the trees and the overall effect of this shot. I'm not sure but it seems that you might be having somewhat the same problem I am maintaining sharp focus along with DOF. Shooting model shots is more involved than it looks. I was disapointed in the shot I took of the elevated Switchmans shanty with the Railbus back end and Shay's water tank, no where as sharp as I wanted!

Was your shot taken hand-held

Actually the photo was taken at f/32 using a tripod. I can see what you are saying here but I think something happened to the photo compressing it to be put up here. the original is crystal clear. Hmmmm? (It's Ray BTW Ron is the rich kid.)

I like the effect and the picture alot. How did you do the smoke?

Smoke was hand painted (digitally) using several different sizes of brush and 3 or 4 varying shades of gray. All work from the creation of the scene (including two scratch built structures) to the photo and added effects was done by myself.

Very nice, Ray. I wanna be there!

-Crandell