A Hopeful Tendril . .

[xpatUSA]

Was trying to shoot some sunflowers but of course a breeze sprung up as soon as I had the tripod and camera in position. Then I noticed this little scene nearby - a skinny little creeper making a determined assault on a 3ft diameter dead cedar tree and wondered if it might count as a "minimalist" shot (new for me) in spite of all the trunk detail?



C&C welcome. A crop, perhaps?



I did some impulse NR in RT to tone down the trunk detail and now the creeper is almost 3D

[Wavelength]

very nice

[Urbanflyer]

Nice concept! Consider an even more drastic crop that focuses on the tip of the tendril as it seeks a place to go, making it more the focus of the photo. such a crop would take off a lot of the left side and restore some at the right where the tendril is trying to go. You can lose the bottom two leaves without making the concept suffer. Fun to see these shots!

[xpatUSA]

Nice concept! Consider an even more drastic crop that focuses on the tip of the tendril as it seeks a place to go, making it more the focus of the photo. such a crop would take off a lot of the left side and restore some at the right where the tendril is trying to go. You can lose the bottom two leaves without making the concept suffer. Fun to see these shots!

Good idea, Judith. However, the shot was made with a 2268x1512px 3.4MP Sigma camera - so cropping by that much would reward me with jaggies and artifacts after up-sizing for posting.

So I would go back and frame per your suggestion rather than cropping the original.

[xpatUSA]

So I would go back and frame per your suggestion rather than cropping the original.

I went out just now to repeat the shot and the tendril was gone, pulled to the ground by a competing creeper. :-(

So here's the original cropped per your suggestion and up-sized to 1500px wide . .

[Geoff F]

For me, your second version works best. By going too close you are losing the context of the scene.

[xpatUSA]

For me, your second version works best.

Thanks.

By going too close you are losing the context of the scene.

I posted the third one for Judith, per her suggestion, so maybe "too close" is in the eye of the beholder . . .

[Dave A]

Very nice, I like it.

Dave

[JBW]

number 2 for me.

[Shadowman]

2nd shot makes the tendril stand out more.

[ST1]

The second version is the stronger image of the three IMO. Well spotted, I'll look forward to seeing your sunflowers


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[xpatUSA]

2nd shot makes the tendril stand out more.

Yes, RawTherapee has Impulse Noise Reduction with a threshold slider which can actually start to smear a background like that while leaving subject edges quite sharp, thus instant "3D".

I agree with all that the second shot is best of the three, sorry Judith.

Thanks to all so far.

[IzzieK]

Hmmm.....I beg to differ, but what is new about my eyes in the early morning hours when I can think than in the middle of night when being in CiC feels like a task? Anyway, I like #1 -- to show a bit of the environment and there is headroom for the "hopeful" tendril to go as far up as it wants or wrap itself by going around the trunk. The first crop is too limiting for that purpose. The third crop lost the story. Just my take...

BTW, Ted -- before I went here to CiC, I have pulled quite of this tendrils from my garden this morning, some far away from my roses and tomatoes got zapped by round-up...darn thing grow like a weed. Wait! it is a weed!!!

[xpatUSA]

Hmmm.....I beg to differ, but what is new about my eyes in the early morning hours when I can think than in the middle of night when being in CiC feels like a task? Anyway, I like #1 -- to show a bit of the environment and there is headroom for the "hopeful" tendril to go as far up as it wants or wrap itself by going around the trunk. The first crop is too limiting for that purpose. The third crop lost the story. Just my take...

What I did like in the first shot and apropos of "the environment" is the weed stubbornly heading sideways in spite of the big obstruction ahead. Point being that the obstruction, while it is still in the second image is somehow less obviously an obstruction, sorta kinda like.