oak tree in sierra nevada foothills- shot just after sunrise. eos5, velvia, 20mm lens, tripod.

-- Greg Rothschild (gnr@toast.net), August 23, 1998

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oak tree in sierra nevada foothills- shot just after sunrise. eos5, velvia, 20mm lens, tripod.

This might work.

-- Don (dworden@sinclair.net), August 23, 1998.

Pretty nice. I might have preferred more emphasis on the trunk (i.e. I think you could have gone in closer and lost more of the outer branches) but I like the early morning atmosphere which you have captured. The scan seems a bit soft and muddy but I am sure the original slide (Velvia taken with a tripod) is neither of these.

-- Ian Watts (i.watts@virgin.net), August 23, 1998.

I think this is a nice shot that can be improved. Crop off a little on the bottom, up to the edge of the roots. Also crop off some on the right side. Just at the point where the right branch does its last large branching ( about 30 pixels inside or so). This looks better since all points of the tree are then cropped on the edges. The format is more nearly square and the image has a more abstract feel to it. The blue on the right is not so overwhelming. Try a little digital sharpening as well.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 24, 1998.

I really like this one. It has sad tone, with the smaller limbs exploding into chaos in the upper left. ESP

-- Eric Peltier (espelt@winternet.com), August 24, 1998.

Very nice. The line of trees on the horizon would look better if you had used a slightly lower camera position (to elvated the branches of the big foreground tree).

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), August 27, 1998.