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Guy: I like scenes like this with a full color spectrum but not one that is over-saturated and is quite natural looking. My first impression was that the large tree on the left side is too dark and heavy and traps my eye. Bringing up the shadows in general and on it in particular makes this stronger for me and makes it easier for me to explore the rest of the image. I like the comp and the various textures and how you filled the frame. >=))> @guy I forgot to upload the suggestion. My apologies.
I like this scene a lot, Guy. It is so difficult to pull off a forest scene like this and get the eye to travel through it the way we want. I do think @Bill_Fach has a great suggestion about bringing up the shadows.
Guy, my initial reaction is that this is quite dark and moody. Is that what you wanted? I like the mix of vertical trunks and colored leaves. I might crop the thin tree on the left off. Since you don’t add any information about what you were trying to do in the hidden text, I wonder if you’re choice of comment type might better be Standard.
Hi Mark, On my calibrated displays I get full detail in the framing foreground trees, yes they are dark but it was a dark stormy day and the contrast between their dark trunks and the colors if the foliage is what I was looking for. I quite intentionally don’t explain what I’m up to because I want the image to speak for itself.
