Trying B/W Techniques

[tdaugharty]

Thoughts?

http://www.daugharty.com/BW-Outdoors.jpg

[TooManyHobbies]

Nicely shot, but a little too busy for me. Distracts instead of leads the eye. Try ...

http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/Edwin_Leong/Camera_Hobby_-_e-Book_on_the_Golden_Ratio.htm

Also the luminosity is basically the same throughout the image instead of having larger areas of dark and light.

[SanderH]

You tell you are trying BW techniques. Is this a conversion? What conversion technique did you use? With what settings? What does the original color version look like?

I agree on the busy picture. Try cropping out some of the surroundings... I like the subject of the photo.

[_BOKEH_]

...Or just wait until the leaves come in. Bare trees are nearly worthless in these situations...