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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: chuckn on March 02, 2015, 10:43:09 pm

Title: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: chuckn on March 02, 2015, 10:43:09 pm

Dead juniper tree on Antelope Island.

Chuck.

Title: Re: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 03, 2015, 04:11:57 am

Good B&W image. Would it have been possible to shoot from a slightly lower angle, so that the tree was more separated from the background?

Title: Re: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: Bob_B on March 03, 2015, 02:13:26 pm

I like it. I think Paulo is right with a change in angle. I can live with that, but find my eye drawn to that very dark tree on the left. Maybe lightening it up a bit would offer some improvement?

Title: Re: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: Chris Calohan on March 03, 2015, 05:35:49 pm

Like!

Title: Re: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: chuckn on March 03, 2015, 05:43:00 pm

Thanks for the comments. Still not sure about the juniper tree in the background, whether it should be lighter or leave the way it is.

Chuck.

Title: Re: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: maddogmurph on March 03, 2015, 07:47:57 pm

I'm intrigued by how the tree looks back lit by a white mist ?  This pulls me in for a moment.

Title: Re: Dead Juniper Tree
Post by: Arlen on March 03, 2015, 08:02:49 pm

It's a quite pleasing image, as is. But I tend to agree with Bob that the darker tree tends to pull the eye away from the main subject. I would try lightening it and see it how you think it looks - unless you've already done that, and decided otherwise.