Pick Up Sticks

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 7, 2010244 views10 comments

Lame title I know but the off kilter arrangement of trunks sort of reminded me of pick up sticks. This is from the White Mtns in New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago as the color was starting to progress. I was drawn to the contrast between the lighter trunks and the darker forest background as well as the subtle splashes of color. Love to hear your thoughts.

*compression isn't doing me any favors here

5dii, 70-200 f2.8, polarizer

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10 comments

Comment posted by Eric Good on October 7, 2010 at 6:21 PM

I can definitely see why this caught your eye. The contrast between those trunks and splashes of color in the fg works very nice with that darker bg. I might consider burning down the far trunk on the left a little, but other than that this more than works for me. Nice intimate forest scene!

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Comment posted by Mitch Moraski on October 7, 2010 at 6:55 PM

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Comment posted by Michael J Greene, on October 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM

I think it works well Kurt. You might try to bring out the pinks in the maple trees a litte bit more.Very nice spacing and well composed...

Michael

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on October 7, 2010 at 8:18 PM

I like the comp, light, and subtle colors. You brought order to this scene in a spledid way.

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Comment posted by Michael Hackett on October 7, 2010 at 8:40 PM

I like the comp and the way the groups of leaves appear to be floating like clouds of color in the forest.

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Comment posted by Kent Mearig on October 8, 2010 at 1:13 AM

Just because it has been done before, people might mistakenly assume that it's not much of a challenge to pull an image like this off. I would heartily disagree. You're right that the arrangement of trunks is pretty remarkable. The one at the left third in the image is individually unique and adds a really neat element to the photo in my opinion.

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Comment posted by Aaron Cowan on October 8, 2010 at 1:43 AM

Kurt: I like the uneven alignment of the trunks and the splash of color throughout the scene. Having the two trunks leaning the same way on the edges makes for a nice natural frame. Good eye!

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Comment posted by Luis Argerich on October 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM

Hi Kurt,
It's a very nice excecution of a classical forest image. Nice spacing and contrast of colors.

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Comment posted by Jason Kim on October 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM

Nice composition, I like it.

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Comment posted by Greg Cope on October 8, 2010 at 9:43 PM

What an exquisite composition to arrange the trunks and colors just so. Things seems a teeny bit soft but like you alluded to could be web compression.

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