Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

I posted this oak tree in another section a couple of weeks ago. Thought I would modify it a little.

This oak is about 400 years old, 90 feet tall, 130 feet canape spread and the truck at 6ft high is 287 inches circumference. It's kinda lonely all by itself with the nearest tree about 1000 feet away.
Location: McBaine Missouri. Google "Mcbaine bur oak" for more info.

I thought it would be better suited next to a pond with fish making ripples in the water.

As always suggestions & comments are always welcome.
I'll post a "how to" if there is an interest.

Thanks for stopping by for a look.

This is the original image


a Little photoshop work

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

Great shot of the ol' oak tree. Love your work in adding that pond with fishes. Am looking for my fishing poles now and planning my fishing trip. Mahalo for sharing.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Very nice work, Steve!

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Thanks JoAnne. You can do so much in Photoshop that it's hard to learn it all, but I nibble at it a little each day. I figure it will take me until I'm 140. Hope the fishing is fantastic.

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Thank You

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

I think it is a neat idea about the tree reflection in the water. But to my eye something seems off. Perhaps it is the ripples on the tree reflection but none on the rest of the water.

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Thanks for your comment and you are right. It was a new idea I was trying. The water reflection was working ok, then I added the ripples and that's when things went a little haywire.
Back to the drawing board.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Reflections add to the story ... Steve, I like your Oak Tree photos, both, but the water adds to the story.

Steve, you are among the demented who worship the ancient Egyptian god Adobe. I am reminded of a logic class in college, task ... the winner is the quickest to solve the problem in advanced math... a maze ... task from Start to Goal who could go from start to goal fastest. All of us but one were in the maze when one girl shouted done. She drew her line around the maze from start to goal and never entered the maze. The instructor then told us that in real life too many attack problems the hard way.

The easy way for putting the Oak Tree in a water reflection is to use a simple plug-in from Flaming Pear. Flood, and if you wish to spend a little money Flood-2. You do not need Adobe BS, any editor allowing plug-in will do; I have Paintshop Pro Ultra 2022. Low-cost one-time fee, look for specials for this weekend black Friday. Ultra has extra addon and the program has new AI capabilities. Flood is a simple standard 8BF plug-in file.
http://flamingpear.com/older.html

For work in IR where the work of Red-Blue swap is difficult I use Flaming Pear R-B swap and it is done in one click.

davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel

Imagine how many pounds of acorns this tree has produced. Fed lots of animals, and possibly a few humans. We have six large red oaks that have been producing acorns for about 15 years. One keeps dropping missiles on my garage roof. Unsettling to the uninitiated.

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Thanks the the comment, I think. I have the flood 2 plug-in and have used it. But, what is the fun in that. Part of the fun is the route you take to achieve the goal. Flying from St. Louis to L.A. is easy. Look at what you missed by not driving old route 66. The High Desert, The Grand Canyon, The Painted Desert, The Mohave Desert, just to name a few.

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Thanks. We found a few of the acorns and they are about the size of a golfball.