Would love C&C on this image--its busy, but I can't quite figure out if that is its only problem. This is a magnificent black gum that stands in an old cemetery on a hill above my home. I have admired it for more than 20 years, maybe even more after it lost its top in a storm a few years back. Every winter I think, "well this may be its last," but every summer comes back as strongly as before.
Sorry didn't mean to post to this thread. I'll figure this out one day.
Looks like this one has seen better days.
Last edited by Habsnut; 21st January 2011 at 04:44 PM.
Magnificent tree but as you say it is a bit busy. Niether the background or the light is helping you out much on this one. If it was me I'd try to isolate this beauty somehow. I don't know what's behind you in this shot but if it's clear(er) space I might try shooting into that. Maybe a wide angle from a lowish position behing one of the gravestones in the morning or evening when there's some directional light on it. That fence is always going to be a problem but from a low angle with a gravestone or two in the foreground it might work. Of course if you were standing in front of a cement works when you took this you've probably already got the best angle on it in which case maybe a wide angle and a low position would get rid of some of the background. Lovely tree though, wish we had its like round here.