Centuries old weathered olive tree...

[RList]

[Manfred M]

Move to appropriate forum. You'll get more comments in the Nature & Architecture forum.

Now for a few of my thoughts. This image is very much done in the same vein as your other postings. The shots are well executed but quite busy, which means the viewer has to spend a fair bit of time looking at the image to work things out. I find that this busyness reduces the effectiveness of the image.

[RList]

made a mistake, sorry. How can I move it. Thanks

[Manfred M]

made a mistake, sorry. How can I move it. Thanks

You can't move it, but a moderator can (and did).

[RList]

Thanks Manfred. I was looking at it at least an hour before taking a shot

[Manfred M]

Thanks Manfred. I was looking at it at least an hour before taking a shot

This image almost reminds me of some of Albrecht Dürer's woodcut prints. They are busy in the same kind of way that this image is.

[RList]

It seems like a good comparison. Taking it as a compliment

[Wavelength]

A great image. As Manfred has pointed out, the surrounding makes it busy.....we have to accept that

[RList]

Nandakumar, thanks for comment. Will work on that. Idea was to show a living being, old but still able to give new life

[Geoff F]

I think, Robert, I would prefer to see the whole tree in one shot then another taken fairly close to show the bark texture etc. At the moment this image seems to fall between those two extremes which leaves me a little on the confused side.

Technically speaking, a good exposure and conversion.

[RList]

Thanks for comment Geoff

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured and processed, has an illustration look to it.

[RList]

Thanks John

[ionian]

Lots of sensible advice above - I like the processing, and the olive split tone is a nice touch. Maybe a crop would make it a more successful image, concentrating on detail, but there is so much in the frame that you would need to decide what parts of the picture were important to you and sacrifice the rest.

[RList]

Hi Ionian, perhaps like this...

[Dave Humphries]

Although it is (very) busy, I prefer the original framing because (to me) Olive trees are quite wide and we lose some of that in the cropped version.

If anything; I find the two branches from the ground exiting the left hand edge do most to disrupt the composition (because they are brightly lit by the sun), but they can't be cropped off, you'd lose too much else from left hand side - perhaps some significant 'burning'?

In PP, I hasten to add

[ionian]

It's hard to say - it's still so busy. I think it's ok to have shots like this; for me the issue is not the camera technique, or the processing, both of which are excellent. It's the original concept and you can't redo that now! Ask yourself, if you were looking at this scene again, what would you do differently? That's the key to learning I feel. You've done a good job with the subject you have.

[RList]

Although it is (very) busy, I prefer the original framing because (to me) Olive trees are quite wide and we lose some of that in the cropped version.

If anything; I find the two branches from the ground exiting the left hand edge do most to disrupt the composition (because they are brightly lit by the sun), but they can't be cropped off, you'd lose too much else from left hand side - perhaps some significant 'burning'?

In PP, I hasten to add

Thanks Dave, cropping was not an option and I keep it printed in my dear map for occasional retrospective. Branches on the left were emphasised along with top one as to present a new life coming from ancient tree doing her last. That was an idea before taking the shot

[IzzieK]

You can at least select your olive tree, then reverse selection, go to filters/gaussian blur and blur the background to taste. (un, not with your tongue ) Will that work? I'd experiment on it but I am on vacationing at the moment...(if you call listening and talking to a 3-year-old "vacation", so be it!)

[RList]

You can at least select your olive tree, then reverse selection, go to filters/gaussian blur and blur the background to taste. (un, not with your tongue ) Will that work? I'd experiment on it but I am on vacationing at the moment...(if you call listening and talking to a 3-year-old "vacation", so be it!)

Hi Izzie, good suggestion, have already thought about it, could have done it with the lens at the spot but once standing before this magnificent tree...I wanted to take it whole home