Mundy Park is a 400 acre heavily forested urban park in Coquitlam, BC. It was logged about 100 years ago and then gifted to the city by the Mundy family. There are two small lakes, and miles and miles of walking trails. My dog and I are there at least 6 days a week.
The arched path is magical. At the other end of the beauty scale is the rotting trunk of a tree, which I chose to show in black and white. Props and brickbats appreciated.
Hoping for some feedback, particularly on the rotted tree.
Hi Scott, Two nice ones here. I would LOVE to get a lens on this arched path.
As to suggestions - I have a few. (Imagine!) :)
For the first, it depends on what you are going for. For me, I would want to create drama with the lighting. In the example below, I kept the end of the path brightly lit but darkened that rest to create this drama. I also cropped a tiny bit off the bottom and left.
For the second, I like this one. All I would suggest is trying to pop the tree out from the background a bit. Here I just hit it with a brush to darken and blur. i also darkened the top of the tree.
All of this is just playing around as both are lovely already. I just like a little more drama and tend to go darker.
Nice work!
PS - thank for the nice thoughts about the profile voting.
I like them both, Scott. The first one is fine as is. I like Ruth's idea about drama, but I wouldn't lose that dark branch that arches over the path in any crop, as to me it's a powerful compositional element. I've done an edit close to what I might have in your place.
In the second, the tree is a little hard to read against the background. Also, there's an uneven white edge around the image, I'd guess a processing artifact (leftover from perspective correction?). It's not visible against the white background at left but is if you click on the image to enlarge. I've lightened the background, rather than darken the tree. I'd keep all the crisp detail in the tree.
As with Ruth, I'm just offering an alternative, not to take away from you own vision.
You guys rock!