CASTLE TREE

[FUJI]

Im currently learning a new style of mono conversion for Landscapes................this is my first go at it:

 

I can see and feel that it has lots of potential:

 

Best viewed LARGE......Click on Pic:

 

 

FUJI

[JMRead]

Hello Fuji,

 

You have a gorgeous triangular image there, very dramatic and looking forward from the dark days of winter to the sunny summer.

 

This is just my personal opinion I would reinforce the triangular composition by darkening the light area top left, my eye shoots out of the picture here instead of returning along the hedge. I can see that you have lightened the hedge by the right hand tree which does help with the returning eye.

 

Cheers - Jem

[fuzzyedges]

With a bit of work that could be a solo tree Fuji

[FUJI]

Hello Fuji,

 

You have a gorgeous triangular image there, very dramatic and looking forward from the dark days of winter to the sunny summer.

 

This is just my personal opinion I would reinforce the triangular composition by darkening the light area top left, my eye shoots out of the picture here instead of returning along the hedge. I can see that you have lightened the hedge by the right hand tree which does help with the returning eye.

 

Cheers - Jem

Hi, Jem,

Many thanks........I can see exactly what you mean now......it just takes someone else's eye sometimes.

Fuzzy........I have this very same tree on its own on the sticks as I type......watch this space ......but.....it's not that blooming tree on the Yorkshire a Moors though.

FUJI

[FUJI]

DONE!

 

 

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

The edited image is a lot easier on my eyes, Fuji.

Is that the big tree on Abbey fields?

[annie]

I have no bloody idea what a 'triangular image' is..................but i like the original..

[NannyFerret]

I have no bloody idea what a 'triangular image' is..................but i like the original..

Nor me!  

[annie]

[FUJI]

Well done Annie........to the point as usual ;-)................It is the composition that's triangular....the light bit in the LHS sky in the first post was leading the eye, out of frame, so I corrected it:

 

No Nanny, the tree is an almost perfect specimen inside the grounds of Kenilworth Castle, at the end of the Elizabethen Garden:

 

We townsfolk own the deeds to the Castle so have a free pass, on none event days, then we have to pay the extra:

 

FUJI

[annie]

Triangular to me it is the working space in a kitchen...sink, fridge, cooker.........that is how basic I am...!

[NannyFerret]

That's great that you can go in when you want.
I wish they would do that for the Coventry people to go into the cathedral.

[FUJI]

Women's logic?.........I will never understand it ;-)

Now! .....can we get back on track please?

FUJI

[annie]

We are simple women fuji, and as such I appreciate a simple picture...but the kitchen is a nightmare to navigate!

[Guest]

The style looks promising and, while the triangular compo works well it is hard to judge much more from an image that contains little more than trees and sky. I await a more conventional comp (with a filed or two if you know what I mean) to see if the style works. Or, is the style just to do with the composition rather than the processing?

[FUJI]

Hi, Bill,

Many thanks for your reply........all useful stuff....

I was using a new or revised mono processing technique via someone you know, but lost contact with, he recently posted a two-tree shot with the sun at a low angle streaming across fields, so I fully understand what you mean.

As you know, my immediate countryside isn't as picturesque as that in T' North, or on the coast, farmland, yes, but not sweeping vistas or hills. Once the fields dry up, I have promised myself that I will venture out with a Tripod, to use small apertures and longer exposures; I purchased the Circular Polariser after watching a Landscape Photography lecture from B&H on YouTube.

I do realise that, under exposing together with processing will give similar results, but wanted to see what the Polariser did.

The Dark-Side calls me from time to time, and I thoroughly enjoy the challenge of the special processing.

FUJI

[NannyFerret]

We are simple women fuji, and as such I appreciate a simple picture...but the kitchen is a nightmare to navigate!

That's easy, Annie. Stay out of the kitchen