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Jim: Beautiful leaves and in general I like the flow of the branch across the frame. Moving the entry from the exact corner would suit me a little better but it’s certainly not a dealbreaker. What is the BG? >=))>
While the conventional wisdom is that you don’t enter at the corner, but I have no problem with it in this composition, Jim. A beautiful find and very well photographed and processed.
Just for fun I opened your photo in Photoshop and used generative expand to create a space above the corner so the branch doesn’t enter from the exact corner. I think both versions are fine, although I do like the “not in the exact corner” slightly more.
Wonderful graphic photograph. The almost detail-less leaves against the same detail free BG makes the leaves just jump off the screen. I don’t mind that the branch starts in the corner, but I do wish that sharpness of the branch as it approaches the corner did not go soft, but stayed sharp like it is at its tip.
