Z Tree

David, I like the comp, and I absolutely love the colors and lighting and the overall feel of this image.

Beautiful image David. Very creative composition from this location. Excellent work,I like it!

Pondering what forces must have been in play to cause that tree to grow like that is fascinating. Did you get any photos with comps that did not hold to the 2:3 ratio as there is nothing special about that ratio. Love the lighting and the overall placement of the tree. I do wish its reflection was complete in the water though.

David,

This has a certain glow or atmosphere that makes this somewhat ethereal; especially the upper 2/3 of the image. And with that, I would suggest toning down the highlights at the bottom 1/3. Otherwise, I think this is a lovely capture and great showcase of this fascinating tree.

A little closer inspection I see that this is a little soft in many places or suffering from the standard jpg compression losses. Perhaps though the softness is also adding to that glow I mentioned. Still, I like this quite a lot.

Lon

Thanks for the input. Lon, your comments were very helpful. I will tone down the grass in the foreground. The ethereal quality was there in that misty morning light, but I tried to enhance it in the image. I experimented with reducing the clarity in LR and found this softening to be pleasing. Maybe there is a better way, or one that can be applied more locally. Any suggestions toward enhancing this ethereal quality (often seen in Florida in early morning light) without losing adequate sharpness or realism would be appreciated.

David: Really nice find and a good solid comp IMO. Well done.>=))>

Love the composition and the great contortions of the cypress. The grass looks a little soft to me though - I might give it a little additional sharpening.

Hi David,
What a shape, what was the tree avoiding? A portal to another Universe maybe?
Great color and very nice processing, feels like fairy tale book.

I've never seen photographs of this tree before so I can't comment on originality. However this photo as it is, is very nice. Lovely color and that tree is very interesting.

- Dan.

While the tree certainly holds a lot of interest, the strong warm colors here are great too. The reflection is icing on the cake.

Very intersting tree with lots of character! Nice autumn colors too.

Chris

Love the comp, the light and the colors, David, but there's something wrong about the techical quality of the image. It's very soft and especially up in the left corner where the tree is there seems to be some strong CAs going on. This shot is definitely worth a second try in processing. For web sharpening you can take a look at my Photoshop script (see my signature).

This is really fascinating. What amazing perseverance by this tree. I think it could use a small bump in contrast and a little more sharpening.

Guy