apple trees

Very nice image and tones.

Regards,
John

Stunning shot. Great selective DOF.

Nice work! I am always very reluctant to criticise my peers and friends here because of the risk of alienating posters. Nevertheless, my personal choice ( NOT a criticism of you ) would have been to shoot from a lower angle ( not down, but more horizontal ) with a "longer" depth of field so that the nearer apples would have been sharper through the foreground. I find the absence of the bottom of the close tree to be disturbing. Also, removing the far tree would subtract nothing at all from the composition, and would focus the attention on the foreground. Highlights added to the apples behind the tree would add a feeling of depth. The tone is fabulous, and the bark is so very well detailed.


Edwin

Edwin

Very impressive!! I would love to look at the print.
Dennis

very nice texture and feel...


Miles

Beautiful in it's simplicity! I like the angle of the two trees and the depth of focus is just about perfect for the subject. Really can't find anything I don't like about this.

Rob

Beautiful in it's simplicity! I like the angle of the two trees and the depth of focus is just about perfect for the subject. Really can't find anything I don't like about this.

Rob

Pan F in a Rolleiflex in the right hands can do some amazing things.
And what a glowing print!

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Edwin - thank you for the critique. I know (first hand) that it's a tough thing to do but, good or bad, I really do appreciate it. It's funny though - what you're describing is almost exactly where I started my composition. Unfortunately, just out of frame at the top of the image was a tree line and a pole building that ruined the shot for me. I tried raising the camera and tilting it down a bit more than it is to incorporate the base of the tree but that was a bit too extreme an angle for me. This was my compromise. I too am not typically a big fan of the "floating chunk of tree" but in this case I thought it acceptable. It's growing on me!

Jonathan

very fetching and suggestive image .... i like the shallow dof and the way the foreground tree is suspended between the frame edges (with the base cropped off) because it makes the texture and tones of the bark the dominant feature, while the soft littler tree in the background, with its own skirt of fallen apples, creates an echo that suggests more beyond .... you know, the first feeling i got from this was that it could be a scene off to the side of that 1900s apple orchard scene by the clarence white