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I like it, but I think it depends a bit on what you want it to be. In particular, you said “The landscape guy in me still wants to leave a bit of the ground in the shot to give it scale and depth.”
Is it a landscape? If so, ok. If it’s an abstract though, then it doesn’t need scale or depth, at least not in the sense you’d apply to a landscape. It’s not necessarily important to be able to place an abstract in a context — in fact, it seems to me that the inability to do just that is part of what makes something abstract.
Just my opinion of course. 🙂
Samsung Galaxy 8, taken and processed with Lightroom CC mobile.
I like it, though if you’re going for creepy (and you’re okay working with photoshop), how about more hands? And maybe make them all left hands, or right hands? 🙂 Might not work, but I’d be curious to see how it comes out.
I still can’t find an easy workflow for EXIF data. *sigh*
The image I posted has EXIF data, but I don’t know if the forum software preserves it or how to view it, so here it is again just in case.
Filename – IMGP7758.jpg
Make – RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.
Model – PENTAX K-1
XResolution – 240
YResolution – 240
ResolutionUnit – Inch
Software – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 8.1 (Windows)
DateTime – 2019:01:04 17:34:26
ExifOffset – 234
ExposureTime – 1/750 seconds
FNumber – 11
ExposureProgram – Shutter priority
ISOSpeedRatings – 1600
ExifVersion – 0230
DateTimeOriginal – 2018:12:15 10:38:53
DateTimeDigitized – 2018:12:15 10:38:53
ShutterSpeedValue – 1/750 seconds
ApertureValue – F 11.00
ExposureBiasValue – 0.00
MeteringMode – Multi-segment
Flash – Flash not fired, compulsory flash mode
FocalLength – 450.00 mm
ColorSpace – sRGB
FocalPlaneXResolution – 2049.07
FocalPlaneYResolution – 2049.07
FocalPlaneResolutionUnit – Centimeter
SensingMethod – One-chip color area sensor
CustomRendered – Normal process
ExposureMode – Auto
White Balance – Auto
FocalLengthIn35mmFilm – 450 mm
SceneCaptureType – Standard
Contrast – Normal
Saturation – Normal
Sharpness – Normal
SubjectDistanceRange – Distant viewThumbnail: –
Compression – 6 (JPG)
XResolution – 72
YResolution – 72
ResolutionUnit – Inch
JpegIFOffset – 884
JpegIFByteCount – 25380Old subject perhaps, because cardinals are generally photogenic? But mostly, new lens, 150-450 zoom. Whee! Also perhaps new, image made with Pentax gear, which I expect is becoming increasingly rare. 🙂
(Though this isn’t the shark tank, CC is always welcome for me if you notice something to point out.)
I recently picked up a Dell G7 gaming laptop for a general purpose mobile platform; it’s okay, but quite noticeably slower than my desktop for running Lightroom (classic). I haven’t tried to do much in Photoshop on it at this point.
Another thing I notice is that the color is only okay on its display; the gamut is a little limited. It’s fine for casual work, but it wouldn’t do for serious color work unless you use a better external display.
I did a little experimenting with black and white; a low key version and a high key version. This is fairly quick and dirty, but you get the idea — lots of room to play with!
Hi Katie,
I like the composition and the idea here, nice catch.
A couple of suggestions — one, it looks to me like it could be straightened slightly; the horizon rises to the right a bit, so the background trees lean a little left overall. Two, it’s a little hard to be certain with the resolution in the post, but it looks to me like your focal point actually landed on the first of the trees behind the arced branch rather than on it — the arching branch looks a little soft. Making sure the focus is on the arch and then also maybe a shallower depth of field to emphasize it a little more?
On filters — this is just my opinion, so yours and everyone else’s may well differ of course, but I don’t feel that there’s anything wrong with using filters to your heart’s content to get the result you want. With some exceptions (e.g. some scientific photography, or journalism, where accuracy and truth of reproduction is first priority), the image is yours to create, so dig into the toolbox. I almost never use color filters anymore, I’ll manipulate digitally after the fact, but same principle.
