ROOTED TO THE SPOT

[FUJI]

This is for Heather to compare with the old tree stump pic posted by her yesterday.............I did say that by some wierd coincidence I had done exactly the same.

Making it stand out from the busy background wasn't easy..................I did my usual CS3 processing, added a smidgeon of gaussian blur to already reasonable DOF...then pushed selective sharpening to give it an edge:

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FUJI

[Heather]

i can see what youve done with if Fuji, but i think you have had the same problem as i did when i tried putting a small blur on the background, it made the stump stand out but at the same time the picture didnt look quite natural anymore. the top half of your picture looks fine and if mine had gone like that i would have been reasonably happy but the whole of my picture went like the bottom half of yours where it just looks slightly surreal. i dont know maybe its just my view of it <sigh>

[Kobione]

Obviously quite difficult subjects, at least you both tried! That actually looks an interesting piece of wood, Fuji.

[Guest Salvatore]

This working better for me but thinks if you could combine this pic with the colours of Heathers then you'd have a winning formular.

Love the little toadstool hiding away there :)