Help! A tree is eating my seat!

I posted a similar picture to this in another section of this forum and got the suggestion that I should go back and try photographing it without the flash. Soooo, I went back yesterday and took it again. Is this one okay?

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I think it would work better on an overcast day, just so you get more even lighting, but it's an awesome subject!

Maybe even a B&W conversion. I am not fond of the composition. I would like to see more of the tree if possible. I would like to get a sense of the tree's presence and size. Is it a Banyan tree? If so, I know that these trees can get absolutely huge so it might not even be possible.

No, not a Banyan Tree, a Fig. I could have, and in fact did, take pictures of the whole tree, but then you don't even notice the seat. This tree is huge. Tried B&W but I like colour better.

Interesting picture! I like it.

Gotcha. I had a feeling it was huge.

Meaty0, This is a cool picture, and I agree with the idea to get it again in some moody light. Would be kinda spooky. Will that tree eventually gobble up that bench?
Best regards
BG

I would have liked to see more of the tree instead of being zoomed into only the bench. To give perspective to how big the tree might be - show the context of the scene.

I did not see the orignal with flash, but I like this one.

It might even make a good monochrome. I can see it in my mind's eye as a sepia toned print. What do you think?

I like it, but I like B&W better. Here's my go since you have "image editing" turned on.

Channel mixer R10 G 60 B 30 (or so), channels merged, contrast + 30. Different parts of the image look better with different channels, so with some time (a bunch of time - an hour at least) and layer masks you could really make it *pop*.

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beachgirl wrote:
Meaty0, This is a cool picture, and I agree with the idea to get it again in some moody light. Would be kinda spooky. Will that tree eventually gobble up that bench?
Best regards
BG

No it'll spring the boards off it and the City Council will have to remove the concrete remains. The boards will eventually be incorporated into the tree I suppose. Cool hey?

Thanks Bob.

I've just upgraded to Photoshop CS2 and haven't figured out how to do good monochrome conversions yet...feel free to have a go.

Thanks again,
Paul

EDIT: How's this?

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Hey meaty0, CS2 huh? How is it? I like your original version of this better. This one, the bench gets lost.
PeACe,
Jenny

CS2 is a quantum leap more complex that Elements 4.0 More learning required...oh well, there goes all my spare time...for the rest of my life

I suck at B&W conversion...so I like my original better too.

Paul

Dear Paul,

Your original post at the top of this thread was fine. The suggestion to do a monochrome and Tim's version came out OK. Then the Sepia toned version came out as a completely different picture from a more distant vantage point, so it can no longer be compared with the two earlier versions.

I still think the Sepia tone would be good - not necessarily better. In any case, the last version above is really a different picture with a completely different composition and the bench gets rather lost for two reasons - it's a smaller part of the image, and the emphasis from its different color is missing.