Some trees, hit or miss?

[Brian Lowe]

Yesterday I played hooky from work so I could take some photos, I went to Descanso Gardens just north of Los Angeles Ca.

Here are a few photos of the trees all were processed in Lightroom.

Let me know if you think these are a hit or miss?


Here is the first photo, hit or miss?
http://brianlowe.smugmug.com/photos/129357401-L.jpg


Here is the second photo , hit or miss?

http://brianlowe.smugmug.com/photos/129362927-L-1.jpg

And the last one number three, hit or miss?

http://brianlowe.smugmug.com/photos/129359109-L-1.jpg

All comments are welcomed, if you would like to see few of the other photos I took that day you my visit them here ==>http://brianlowe.smugmug.com/gallery/2466464/1/129359109


Thanks for stopping by,

-Brian-

[Sean DeMerchant]

Hi Brian,

Since you asked.


Here is the first photo, hit or miss?

I like this one, the composition is well balanced. The texture is fractal in character from lower left to upper right and the toning works for me.

Here is the second photo , hit or miss?

Miss. Neither the composition nor the texture from the B&W/toning conversion does much for me.

And the last one number three, hit or miss?

Miss. I think the texture is interesting, but the strong dominant lines of the trees does nothing for me and feels unbalanced. The close by trunk at left is just too strong of a line to let the other lines in the composition stand out.

just one opinion,

Sean <smile>

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Brian,

All suffer from tightness.

This infiltation of Bressonistic minimalist framing is challenging as one does not have second chance if one is not Bresson! Excuse my opinionation! Just me!

Still, I'd be very happy indeed with the middle picture. I like the total effect. The Sienna toning does fit with the scene, atl east to my own esthetics.

The foreground tree is conflicting for me. It's incomplete and I'd like more, but it does create beyond it a special more secluded harder to get clearing that now has interest.

Is that the whole shot?

Asher