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Artistic Expression Of a Bare Tree in Fog.
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Jan 11, 2022 15:40:24   #
abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois
 
Here are my rough edits. Shows the effect of cropping, replacing the foreground and tweaking the tone curve. Additional adjustments can be made as well as cleaning up some artifacts. The first one should have matched the second one in brightness. They both have an eerie three-dimensional feel when you move your head sideways over the picture.


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Jan 12, 2022 11:32:51   #
couch coyote Loc: northern Illinois
 
2nd comment: I think you are going for the "art" component, and you certainly achieved it with the blur and added texture. But I do like the added sense of space in abc1234's second example. Maybe the tree's solitariness could be emphasized with more of your textured space added to the right and bottom. Note: I don't say it could be "better", because it's already a wonderful artistic piece!

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Jan 12, 2022 13:30:23   #
Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas
 
The top one is wonderful. 👏

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Jan 13, 2022 06:36:08   #
Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky
 
abc1234 wrote:
Here are my rough edits. Shows the effect of cropping, replacing the foreground and tweaking the tone curve. Additional adjustments can be made as well as cleaning up some artifacts. The first one should have matched the second one in brightness. They both have an eerie three-dimensional feel when you move your head sideways over the picture.


I like the first one best, thanks for taking the time to do this and express your vision of what the original image should look like.

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Jan 13, 2022 06:37:00   #
Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky
 
couch coyote wrote:
2nd comment: I think you are going for the "art" component, and you certainly achieved it with the blur and added texture. But I do like the added sense of space in abc1234's second example. Maybe the tree's solitariness could be emphasized with more of your textured space added to the right and bottom. Note: I don't say it could be "better", because it's already a wonderful artistic piece!


Thank You for that kind comment.

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Jan 13, 2022 08:45:52   #
abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois
 
couch coyote wrote:
2nd comment: I think you are going for the "art" component, and you certainly achieved it with the blur and added texture. But I do like the added sense of space in abc1234's second example. Maybe the tree's solitariness could be emphasized with more of your textured space added to the right and bottom. Note: I don't say it could be "better", because it's already a wonderful artistic piece!


I am a "straight shooter". I do not care for the special effects at all. I like to bring out what is already there. This comes from when I started photography in 1959. Lenses were not that sharp, exposure was manual, papers and films were soft. Most photographers wanted sharper prints with a long tonal range. Those had been the goals for decades. My mentor also had that philosophy. I still have it to this day.

Making a picture sharper with proper contrast and color is much harder to do than to apply special effects. I also look at many pictures representing decades of photographers. In the end, you develop your own photographic sensibility. I just told you mine and how I arrived at it.

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