Tree

Comments welcome, Thank you!

Beautiful scene, great dof, 6/6

very unique tree, becky! how far did you have to hike to find this? only improvement i can see, and perhaps you were limited on where you could stand, is the the elimination of the foreground foliage on the left side. then again, eliminating the small tree in the back would be great too, leaving the subject framed perfectly against the countryside. but then, you would have altered "reality" a lot here, so let's just go back to whence we started and just say that this is an excellent scene!

forgot to mention, i really like the cool hues also. must have been in the evening or a very overcast day?

Thanks Jim! It is always a pleasure...

 

Asim, I shot this from the parking lot at the top of Mt Scott so no hiking at all. Yes it was very cloudy and late in the day. We are having a bit of a cold spell in July, very pleasant. Thanks!

Rendiering he background more out of focus would have helped. As would bringing the nearer bushes into focus.

Nice sense of space. On balance maybe getting the foreground in focus would have helped that but given you used a tripod I guess that was your decision! I like the composition with the odd shaped tree placed like that.

Thanks for the critique Dr Phil ****. The focus was to isolate the tree. Lens wide open, I'm not sure if you mean add blur in photoshop... What did you mean?

 

Thanks Colin, no there is nothing of interest to me in the foreground. Probably the best I could do for this is what Asim suggested... Thanks for the critique.

Looks very unreal, I like it Becky, and a shame you did remove your portrait.........

Thanks Els! The self portrait was bad... The guanaco is the guardian...

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