A tree

[Shakey]

Constructive comments please.
Scathing, scaulding ,critisisms also welcome,heck I am just a dweeb with an A80.

http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/2450008-L.jpg


Cheers,
Shakey

[Warman]

AHAHA, its horrible, awful, stoopid!!!

Its the flu...

Its realy, realy good and i realy like it a lot. I would like to see it lose a little on the left and a little of the top because as it is, there is all that empty space to the left that realy doesnt benefit the shot and of course if you cut that you have to trim the top to give it balance.
Also perhaps lessen the sun's brightness a bit?

Anyway, congratulations on a very, very good shot. Its impressive and the B/W choice was dead on.

[dds]

Love pictures of trees and yours is really interesting and well composed. I would probably compose it a little different because I feel the tree on the right is a little bit distracting. At the same time just cropping would probably cause the picture to be too asymmetric (to me). I would probably move a little bit on the right and shoot from there in order to have the tree in the middle and the far trees on the background. Just an opinion.
Anyway VERY cool shot.
DDS

[dds]

Love pictures of trees and yours is really interesting and well composed. I would probably compose it a little different because I feel the tree on the right is a little bit distracting. At the same time just cropping would probably cause the picture to be too asymmetric (to me). I would probably move a little bit on the right and shoot from there in order to have the tree in the middle and the far trees on the background. Just an opinion.
Anyway VERY cool shot.
DDS

[GPR1]

I might have composed the shot so the sun was behind part of the tree, rather than above it. That would have created dramatic light through the branches, and helped tone down the sun just a bit. It is, however, in its own right a nice picture.

Greg

[Kell]

Really nice. Love the shadows on the ground to the right, the sky, the trees in the background... really nice one. Maybe try and crop it to keep only the front tree, and drop the ones to the right? Would like to see how that went.

[ecobo]

Congratulations. Excellent photo. B&W is OK. Keep posting!
Regards!

[Meerkat17]

I'm with Warman on this one

Great picture

David

[Shakey]

Thanks for the comments.

The main reason I did not crop this shot was that the clouds seemed to mirror the branching of the tree,and of course when I cropped I lost that visual.

I should have tried getting closer as was stated in this thread and had the sun more directly behind the tree it might have been spectacular.

Again thanks for the tips I am a newbie to Photography everything helps.

Here is another shot of the same tree on a different day(Feb 02/04) and a different angle.

http://shakey.smugmug.com/photos/2450009-L.jpg

[sparty314]

Very nice!

I like the second photo (the color one) better. The wet snow (or is that ice) and the forground framing the tree really add a lot to it in my opinion.

Trees are some of my favorite subjects. Just of of curiosity, what kind of tree is that? To me it looks like an eastern cottonwood tree.

[KO_300D]

Both shots are excellent.

I agree with a previous statement fo cropping the top and left of the first a little, just to eliminate dead space ad also to bring the tree out of the centre of the shot a little.

The second one is spot on - it's got a really moody feel to it.
Pics to be proud of
8)

[mr_clean001]

Both shots are excellent. The sun in the first one is a little intense for my taste, a little washed out, but the overall affect is excellent.

The second pic, the color one with the mist is AMAZING. That is one hell of a tree you have there!

[Grubby]

Are you kidding me Warman? This vision rocks! The empty space brings the subject alive. With the empty space you really focus on the tree. It is unique and alone...I think it is positioned perfect...Those clouds scatter the sky perfectly...very subtle.

Nice job...right place and right time. Congrats

[burkdog]

I like them both. Very cool.