The Great Oak

[23dornot23d]

I pass this tree everyday when I go shopping for my groceries .... and often I stop and take a photo of it .....



But this was the first time that the Sun was in the right position relative to the road I travel along .....

So took a couple of shots at different distances ..... here is one of them ....



and here is a little post processing on the same shot .... may have overcooked it a little ....



Any comments are welcome .....

I did get a few shots but liked the natural gradient in the sky with this one ...... ( so could come out a little further if needed to do a different crop )

Just critique for myself - I think it needs straightening slightly ...

Ok here it is straight and the ..... Full size JPG .....

[wehttam]

good timing then!!! i like the layers in the sillouette.

[konstantkarma]

I like it! I'm not much on gold frames...

What about cropping it to lose a little more of the ground, and emphasizing the warm sunset colors a little more?

[23dornot23d]

Cheers Whettam .....

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good timing then!!! i like the layers in the sillouette.

I was lucky really .... although I nearly always have at least one camera with me -
even if its a the Fujifilm finepix z20 pocket camera .... was in the car this day so it was the bridge camera a Fujifilm S1000FD

[23dornot23d]

I like the crop konstantkarma ..... but my photo was a tad on the grainy side ..... although what you have done looks good thank you for taking time out to do this .....

I will now try a similar approach with a different border too ....

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I like it! I'm not much on gold frames...

What about cropping it to lose a little more of the ground, and emphasizing the warm sunset colors a little more?

...... and will drop the gold frames from now on too ..... sometimes its better with a darker
border for these type shots



..... so may just add a plain black next time ....... have darkened this too .... and gaussian blur to try to remove some grain .....



If I get the chance again of this shot ..... which is quite possible ...... just a matter of timing and the right type of sky ......
will take the same photo with the Canon EOS550d .....
( It tends to mess the skies up though ..... not had a decent sky yet from this camera .... but there is a update on the firmware
which is meant to correct the problems I am seeing )

[konstantkarma]

Well I will say I think the black border makes a much better enhancement over the gold one

[23dornot23d]

Me too .... that is a great improvement ..... thank you ...... seems that a darker subject suits a darker frame ......

One more try ...

Changed the text and tried to bring out some foreground detail ......



I am a lot happier with the way that one turned out , thank you for the aide ....