Contrasting

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted March 10, 2011877 views5 comments

This is a tree in Huntley Meadows Park in Virginia that some crows had picked out. It's one of a pair of gnarly trees standing away from the main woods. The image was pretty monochrome to begin with - flat gray sky, monochrome tree, monochrome birds, so my thought at the time was B&W. But looking at it, I thought it would be better altered a bit more.

This is actually still a color shot - just some tinges though. I pushed the contrast and clarity way up in ACR, and added some sharpening and vignette.

Thanks for looking!

Olympus E-520
Zuiko 70-300 @ 202mm
f/6.3
1/1000 s
ISO 100
Tripod
ACR for conv, PS for web prep

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by David W. Kelly on March 11, 2011 at 7:05 PM

I like your choice of going BW with this. I am a big fan of black and white photography. Wonderful the way the birds are perched.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on March 12, 2011 at 6:31 AM

Cool! Good idea, nicely executed. Since the crows are the main attraction for me, id be inclined to go with a slightly tighter crop, closer to square.

Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments

Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on March 13, 2011 at 7:22 AM

Very much like the way you've combined texture in the trees with the silhouetted birds, David. The branches sharply cut off against the frame helps the feel of the image too, I think.

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Comment posted by Andrius Pašukonis on March 17, 2011 at 7:43 PM

Sooo Hitchcock! I like it a lot! Congrats on the EP

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on March 18, 2011 at 1:47 AM

Nice processing and a very interesting result!
Congrats on the EP!
Sandy

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