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[gcflora]

I have been trying to take photos from within remnant bushland and am having trouble simplifying and removing distractions. The photo below is my latest attempt. Any ideas how I can approach things in futures?

Cheers, Craig

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_6vdPqp2Fxq4/Sl7OhUF7gHI/AAAAAAAAAXw/E2ErFrZjtO0/s720/_MG_2234-CarricksRd-LARGE.jpg

[rammy]

I've been to a local woods near me, and used it as a practice. Never came away with anything satisfying but what I did do is try every technique I could think of; Shallow and deep DOF, subject isolation; wide and narrow FOV; image depth (foreground. middle and background).

Something might work if you go for a full gamut of techniques :-)

On this one, for me personally, it's quite busy so a wider FOV with the tree in one of the rule of 3rds cross points, maybe? :-)

[DerekSimon]

Not really appealing to me... I think indeed that it is a great area to mess around in though and just think of little bugs and things for some macro shooting too.

[Robert_Lay]

This picture needs a beautiful girl sitting on the fallen tree.

Everything else is fine:)

[Flo]

I would try a crop omitting the foreground natural mess on the tree....starting at the curve perhaps?

[Oddjob82]

I think it looks great myself

If you are able to tune it in lightroom or another program try warming the color temp up just a tad and desaturating the blues a bit. Not saying this is a solution or a necessity but I think it would move the photo in the right direction.

I am posting my example below. You would have to edit your full size image of course. I don't really think it needs a crop myself.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3735830730_24b7c06916_o.jpg

Original:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_6vdPqp2Fxq4/Sl7OhUF7gHI/AAAAAAAAAXw/E2ErFrZjtO0/s720/_MG_2234-CarricksRd-LARGE.jpg

[Flo]

Do a crop.it makes a huge difference:D

[DrFil]

simple crop, +contrast, and +saturation would do wonders, i think

[gcflora]

Thanks everyone for the excellent feedback and I apologise for the delayed response (I've been away getting more photos!)

I love this forum and the cross-section of opinions that seem to result. I'll definitely be having a go at cropping the photo and also tweaking the contrast and saturation. I am eager to try this now, but I am on my laptop without a copy of the original with me (grrr)

Cheers,
Craig