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From the forest BW - Irma - May 31, 2007

Try a bit my composition in some scenes in the forest. I took them a bit overexposed to work a BW version of the pictures.
I've been working with my (24-105mm) I always find difficult to come back to this lens after taking macros for so long....

Any advice is very much appreciated....

#1



#2

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From the forest BW - Wedding Shooter - May 31, 2007

The second photo is stunning Irma. Perhaps the colour version is also quite beautiful.

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From the forest BW - wulinka - Jun 1, 2007

no 2 is for sure a keeper!
no 1 for my taste seems to tilt towards the back a little too much, I would work on the perspective. and I think I would crop the dark off the bottom.

nice!!

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From the forest BW - Toad - Jun 1, 2007

#2 is exceptional - I would consider taking just a bit off the top to see if you can minimize the white space...because with the sky bleached, the reflection doesn't quite match.

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From the forest BW - Irma - Jun 1, 2007

Thanks for your comments and advice ...

Chris, the color version is not so beautiful, the color of the reflection is kind of green, I had to burn and dodge it to give a good contrast there. The same I had to do in the foliage in the foreground to give some attraction there...

Uli, I think the bottom of the picture is needed to have some foreground before the logs, that is why I took it this way. My composition was the diagonal of the dead trees and the straight line of the living tree... Perhaps the composition works better in a landscape format, or maybe the subjects and lines are not strong enough....

Toad, Unfortunatelly I couldn't make my sky a bit darker, and give texture. I had more sky and the continuation of the cloud you see in the left of the reflection....
Here is the cropped version...

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From the forest BW - Don Schaeffer - Jun 1, 2007

The sky is a little pale. You need darker blacks.

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From the forest BW - Irma - Jun 1, 2007

Thanks Don, for your advice.
I have to try again, maybe my picture wasn't propperly exposed to have the right colors in the sky.

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