Big Honkin' Trees

Here's a couple I took recently.

BTW, I decided that a rainy day was ideal for the really big single trunk redwood. I got a crap clarity shot 2 years ago of it in the rain, but some folks said they liked the rainy day look. So I did it again in the rain one more time for that kind of feel. The one with two main trunks is Stout Grove. I tried the approach of putting the subject (me and Stout Tree) behind the other big trunk, instead of a wide open panorama like last time.

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I find the second one more interesting when I hold up a finger and cover up the sky on the left. Is there a way of making it darker without making it look fake. When you do that the sense of mystery of the image is stronger.

MuPu wrote in post #11011189
I find the second one more interesting when I hold up a finger and cover up the sky on the left. Is there a way of making it darker without making it look fake. When you do that the sense of mystery of the image is stronger.

That's an idea for some experiments. I want to make that one available for prints.

One option based on your idea, could include cropping the entire image slightly, because matting could end up covering that spot of sky.

Its also food for thought when I take photos, to move the tripod over a foot at a time each direction. Will be back there again in the months ahead.