Enchanted forrest (C)

I am interested in whether this or the

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posted earlier bring out

the abstract features of the landscape better. All comments /

crits. welcome.

i dont know, i kinda like the b&w version better. it makes it more eery and mysterious. good shot though

Jonathan, did you use a camera motion to accomplish this effect or some photoshop technique? I would not call it 'enchanted' but it is very captivating. The b/w version seems to lose something but is still effective. The color anchors everything in reality, though. Excellent composition.

For me the b&w version works better - but there are clearly different reactions to this.

 

 

Very creative image of wonderful colors and composition

 

Wishing you all of the best my friend

 

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another nod for the B&W nice and original

I used PhotoShop to bring out what I saw as the dominant angles which seemed to be shared by both the green foliage hanging down and the thin branches pointing up, as well as the matted fallen vegetation. I did this by applying linear blur in each direction to semi-transparent layers and then a vertical blur selectively to the tree trunks, again semi-transparent to keep some of the original detail. The result came out pretty much as I saw the patterns with my eyes screwed up.

 

The colours are unmodified and I was wondering if I should make them more dramatic to enhance the dream-like effect.

... like this.

To all

Thank you for your comments. Any further thoughts?

Best wishes, Jonathan

Jonathan, thank you for describing your technique! There are so many things that I have not even experimented with. These vertical/linear blur effects are quite striking in this case, and I am impressed that you worked with what was already there. You must be a professional artist :) If you have a chance, please visit Rick Lindh's PN site. He has a few interesting manipulated images (radial blur) that I have not mastered yet. But this is quite a nice use of the tool. BTW, my feeling is that oversaturating the color will make this look like a pastel drawing and no longer a photograph. That is always the danger. Leaving the color tones as seen has more impact but, of course, even the b/w version is lovely. Best wishes to you!

The colour and B/W are different images. I like them both.

The B/W gives a more mysterious effect. The colour one is friendlier

i like the effect...

 

and prefer the color version much more than the bw.

thought for sure I'd be a color-voter, but I've gotta admit that there's something much more dramatic about the black and white. Neat idea and execution

Fantastic nature abstract...wonderful job!!!