The colors are nice. The rotten tree is interesting.
The composition is a bit lacking for me. There is a tree exiting on right bottom. There is a branch on left at bottom that is out of focus. The leaves are out of focus bottom left.
I think it is too busy without a central object because of all the stuff happening in the picture.
If you recomposed to have less in the picture with the rotten log taking perhaps 50% of the frame it might work better.
Scott Stoness wrote:
The colors are nice. The rotten tree is interesting.
The composition is a bit lacking for me. There is a tree exiting on right bottom. There is a branch on left at bottom that is out of focus. The leaves are out of focus bottom left.
I think it is too busy without a central object because of all the stuff happening in the picture.
If you recomposed to have less in the picture with the rotten log taking perhaps 50% of the frame it might work better.
Thanks for the input, on the limbs out of focus i shot with a shallow dof on purpose to focus attention on the rotting tree with the sun hitting it.
I think I will have it printed today, trying to decide on a good size for this picture. I am thinking 11x14ish.
The problem is, IMHO, that the green leafs in the left foreground against the backdrop of the trunk are where my eye tends to go first, and then, only later, to the rotten tree. So the picture is beautiful and interesting, but you should find a way (resize, crop?) to get the eye to naturally go to the interesting part.
philber wrote:
The problem is, IMHO, that the green leafs in the left foreground against the backdrop of the trunk are where my eye tends to go first, and then, only later, to the rotten tree. So the picture is beautiful and interesting, but you should find a way (resize, crop?) to get the eye to naturally go to the interesting part.
To me thats how I like my compositions, you naturally read from left to right so i like my photo's to get more interesting from l-r . Imo If you go straight to the target and thats all you have the photo is over to quick and is not as fulfilling. It's my style I guess.
I do appreciate the input, and I will go back to shoot this tree again, I want to catch the woodpecker in it!! I will try some different comps with the front limbs out of the way or less obtrusive.
I was looking for Ideas on contrast color but i will take composition into consideration when i go back.
For my money, contrast and colors are fine. Though, if you accentuate the tones in the tree and tone down the leaves, you could achieve pretty much the same effect I was suggesting about composition...:-)
