CrabappleII

Same tree as in "Crabapple" I screwed up on the location & got the

angle wrong.

Contrasty upload, Mike. Love the subject and aesthetic.

Tell me if you think this is awful :o)

 

I used Paintshop Pro's Glowing Edges, then merged at 30% opacity and added some sepia tone.

 

The reason I did this was to emphasize the form of the subjects, which now stand out more from each other and from the background. Of course all sense of reality is gone.

 

A really neat thing is the way the curly branches of the background reach from each side toward the subject's trunk. The background trees also have their own personality, but defer to the main subject.

Thanks David, I was actually fooling around with that sort of thing earlier. Sometimes I use "find edges" in the sharpening process & it gives a different perspective & ideas to the image. I like your take on this, I never noticed the limbs pointing to the main subject as you did. Thanks for that.