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Description
This is another image from my Trees in the Mist series. We have perfect opportunities to capture images like this on the Blue Ridge Parkway, often shrouded in clouds, especially in the morning. This was taken on July 2 with my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Specific Feedback
I loved this intimate landscape scene with the quirky features on a couple of the trees. Do you see them? How does the processing look? I worked at “fine-tuning” the tones after converting to B&W.
Hi Susanna, I really like this image you have shared with us. You have captured a really lovely atmosphere which shows off the character of the trees quite nicely. The B&W conversion gives it a beautiful luminous quality works really well. Nicely done.
I really like this one Susanna. It is hard to find a place, especially in a hardwood forest that you can get the depth that you found here, perfect density and light. The B&W works really well with the mist. I also love the quirky branches and double trunk in some of these trees.
Simply gorgeous!! I love the variety of trees and the arrangement of areas of leaves. I wonder if there is just a sliver more canvas on the bottom? I find the topmost gnarled branch pulls my eye more than I want. I would clone over it or crop down from the top just a bit. More on the right or a small crop in would remove the sliver of light to the right of the trunk – or again clone it. Deciding on a crop would drive me nuts in a target-rich environment like this!
That’s the forest of my ancestors in the early 1700s and I think I have some sort of genetic attraction to it.
@Diane_Miller, thanks so much for your feedback. It’s interesting that you mentioned both the top and bottom areas. I have been thinking about the top, that crooked branch specifically, and was actually thinking about adding canvas at the top and toning it down a little bit. I like the quirkiness of it, but you’re right — it’s an eye grabber. As far as the bottom, I thought about removing the white vegetation at the bottom of that large tree. I may do that, but I see your point about adding canvas to the bottom (and right, while I’m at it to handle that light area). Unfortunately, this image was not cropped at all, so I’ll have to generate extra in PS. I’ll do an edit and post it. Thanks, again!
Dear Susan,
Thanks for posting this image, which has a poetic atmosphere and depth that attracted me immediately. It is no easy task to find the right position resulting in an interesting arrangement of elements in a woodland, but I think you have managed to do so. One thing that I find intriguing in your image is the tension between the dark, robust and linear trunk on the right and the slimmer tree with two twisted branches to the left: The massive visual weight of the trunk to the right is somehow balanced by the quirky and twisted branches of the tree to the left, even though the visual weight of the tree to the left is smaller. I am not sure that I would change anything. Well done!
This photo cannot be enyone else’s but yours. One of the most beautiful B&Ws I’ve ever seen. You are really an artist in graduating diferent, soft and delicate light tones thoughout the image. If it were mine I wouldn’t have been able to remove even a leaf from this painting. Splendid.
Thanks so much, @Leo! I appreciate your critique of the image. I think that the cascade of leaves down the trunk of that tree on the right might help soften it and help it to work with the rest of the image? I do love those leaves!
