nosferatu

The subject of this Monday's image (yes, I know it's another bleedin' dandelion - my lawn is full of them right now) is not important.  No, it's the concept behind it together with the inspiration for that concept that I want to concentrate on here.

I recently watched the Robert Eggers remake of Nosferatu.  It blew me away.  Not so much the well-known story, but the way the film looked; its cinematography.  It is absolutely beautiful to look at.

And I wanted to see if I could get an image to look similar to the look of the movie, in particular the nighttime moonlit shots.  So, naturally I shot this image on my front lawn in the middle of the day!

Getting the image was simple, but the devil was in the post-processing where all the heavy lifting was done to take a bright image of a weed and transform it into something more akin to a subject lit by a full moon.  I think I succeeded, you may disagree?  Let me know by leaving a comment that I won't be able to respond to!

Fujifilm X-H2, Laowa 65mm f2.8 ultra-macro
1/1250th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125
handheld
image processed in Adobe Lightroom

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