new -- color & b&w 'Fruit Trees in Spring'

A 'street' view of fruit trees in full blossom against a background of mixed other trees

including eucalyptus, near the banks of the Kalama River, Cowlitz County, Washington

State's western part, just near where the Kalama River joins with the mighty Columbia.

Your ratings, observations and views are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly, very critically, or wish to make a remark, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to help improve my

photography (B&W version). Thanks! Enjoy. john

John,

I like the inherent symmetry produced by the foreground shrubs and the tall dark tree in the middle. This is a great composition. However I would have post processed it in a slightly different way. I would have reduced the overall contrast in the scene and enhanced some shadow detail in the dark tree. The top right corner is a distraction and I fully understand there was nothing you could do to avoid it. Usually I don't, but in this case I would recommend cloning out the bright area to give integrity with the rest of the scene. These are just my ways of thinking, and I fully support if you disagree with me.

I have to admit that I might have lightened the darker trees in the center a little; those are the things you really cannot know until often after you've posted in cases where distinctions in tones are minor.

As to cloning the sky, right, that's something I just don't do in a landscape, or at least if it might become known . . . heh heh heh.  Let's leave it at that.  I think it would be apparent, and thus a 'fault' to some, and to me and my sensibilities.

I like so much that you shared your thoughts, and of course the idea that the whole scene is highly symmetrical; which falls apart somewhat if you lighten it a little more, including those dark trees in the center you'd like to lighten (there are reasons for many seemingly inexplicable actions . . . . )

Thank you for a fine and helpful critique.

john

John (Crosley)

P.S., it looks different and quite stunning in color; why not visit my home page link and view it in color there along with about 1,200 other photos; they keep getting added to daily many times.

jc

John,

After seeing your post, I visited your imagebrief portfolio (I visited it some months earlier, but could not stay long due to time crunch) and saw the original color image. It does look stunning, as you said. I am going to see a few pages everyday and absorb your work, because I don't want to rush through it. Some images if posted here will be an instant hit, like this one and this one. I always wondered when you disappear for a while from PN, but now I can follow your work from your main portfolio. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for having a look at the 'main portfolio' but in reality it's new and for licensing purposes only, but licensors prefer color, so I've given them primarily color versions of shots, many of which have been posted already on Photo.net  and others which have no or little photographic merit, but hopefully have commercial value.  The two linked photos, for instance, were posted in B&W on Photo.net as part of my huge portfolio here.

Thanks for the kind words; enjoy your trip through the land of great photos and some that could easily be passed over if they didn't depict things that buyers/licensors may want photos of and are willing to pay good money for, sometimes for an image/any image (other times it's photographer vs. photographer with hundreds of shots competing for the same 'brief' and in fact that's the rule at that site, but the main attraction is its generous fee structure.

I'm glad you hit the link.  Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)