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Enter the Forest
Enter the Forest
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Challenge: Magic & Mystery (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon
Location: At the Lake.
Date: Aug 17, 2006
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Emotive
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2006

 Shot a couple of dead trees and made the sky menacing. Tried to give an overall feeling of impending doom. Feels like a Mysterious forest I'm going into.
I can already see lots of DNMC comments, but I liked this more for the dark feeling.
I tried my hand at HDR with this one too. I'll be posting it as an outtake.
The PP includes: Convert from RAW (first for me), Crop, adjusted brightness/contrast, levels, then added 2 photo filter layers (Cooling80 and Deep Emerald). I then did a little dodging and burning to give character to the clouds. The rest is usual... Flatten, resize, USM and save for web.
Thanks in advance for comments and voting.

Statistics
Place: 95 out of 127
Avg (all users): 5.0476
Avg (commenters): 6.4000
Avg (participants): 4.8276
Avg (non-participants): 5.1316
Views since voting: 809
Views during voting: 374
Votes: 210
Comments: 7
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 08/28/2006 12:28:55 AM
Hi from the Critique Club!

For me, this photo doesn't hold my attention for too long. The exposure seems to be what you were going for (meaning black trees and the dark blue sky) but the composition could use some work. The alignment of the trees that you have captured, along with the "personalities" of the trees (How the branches spread, the angles, points, leaves and all) are presented here a little flat. Also, there is a distracting blob in the upper portion that seems to be haunting this photo and doesn't seem to be doing anything for it. I guess there isn't enough interesting elements to give this photo any real life.

Having said that, I want you to know that I think this idea is really something that you could work with. I like the contrast of black again that pretty blue. Maybe if you could find a different angle to shoot from that may help.

That's just my two cents.

:)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/24/2006 12:21:00 PM
Beautiful and indeed magical.
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 08/24/2006 03:37:27 AM
Great colors. Nice shot.
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 08/24/2006 12:14:49 AM
Dramatic clouds and nice sillohette...but not really capturing magic and mystery for me.
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 08/23/2006 11:04:23 PM
I'll give you that the forest appears dark and mysterious here. But the composition and silhouettes of the trees don't grab me. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but that's the case with a lot of images I rate as a 5, which I'm doing here. To me, that means it meets the challenge and it's a decent shot, but it's not really great. 5.
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 08/22/2006 06:21:11 AM
I just love the "eerie" blue tones here, and this works for me.....
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 08/21/2006 07:19:38 PM
Nicely dramatic, but lets us down in the end. I just don't feel it here. 4
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