Fly away

[Melanie90]

[Kaye Leggett]

To me this is a beautiful image which stands on it's own. That said, I would love to know how you shot/processed it for the look you have achieved.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Melania, nice image I would crop the image a bit from the bottom and RHS for two reasons:

1- IMO semi circular look of the tree doesn't suit the composition but if you cropped the image from above the watermark to eliminate the bottom curve of the tree, then I think it would look better. So, you would also have to crop from RHS in order to keep the same aspect ratio.

2- Your watermark distracts.


PS. You would also have to re-edit the vignette look in the image after cropping.

PS. I do like the PP work.

[Shadowman]

Nice, very gritty.

[ShaneS]

Melania, I'm with Kaye on this one. It is very nice as is and I think that your processing enhances the feeling evoked by the image. You might be able to get away with adding a bit of brightness (lifting the shadows or maybe masking out the texture that I believe you have added to the image) on the bird itself but that is a minor quibble at this point as I really like this one.

[FootLoose]

Nice colours, Melanie. I think Binnur has raised an interesting point about the tree. The lower section of the tree hints at the height of the tree, and if you crop that little bit out, the bird seems to be much higher in the sky which suggests to me that it is soaring aloft.

I like texture work but I wonder if the vignette has made it a little too heavy in the bottom right corner. A vignette should direct attention to the subject, but in this case it seems to emphasise the detail in the corner and pull my eye down there.

[Melanie90]

Hi!
Thanks for all yours suggestions guys!