Sentinel Tree

DonRicklin

Revisiting an old image of mine! Which treatment do you like better?

1)Darker more detailed background:


2) Lighter background:


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The timeless wait.....-Old sentinel snag and conifer, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, State of Washington.

Don

schmoo

While the top image's color appeals to me more, the second sure does make the foreground subject stand out better. I guess it depends on your taste

DonRicklin

schmoo wrote: »

While the top image's color appeals to me more, the second sure does make the foreground subject stand out better. I guess it depends on your taste

Thanks for looking and commenting, schmoo!

This was taken in (I believe) 2002 about a year before I went digital. Shot on a Pentax ZM SLR with Seattle/Photoworks Film and scanned to disc from the negative by them.

One of my favorite landscape images from that period of my shooting.

Don

cshoresal

1. It's a little more contrasty all around and I like the detail that brings to the wood and the little pink flowers, lower left.

Photophilia

I really like number 1. The color makes the image more interesting with greater contrast. Nice shot. It's fun to go back and look at photos that you've taken and see it differently than you did previously.

Doug Solis

OK, here is my vote. I like the background of #2 the best, it is not a busy and #1 and it allows the viewer to direct their attention on the subject. But the subject tree ect has much better contrast in #1. So I would use a mask and paint back the contrast from image one to image 2. In other words, have #1 as the bottom layer and #2 as the top layer with an attached mask on #2. then paint in black to reveal the subject. Hope that helps. Nice shot btw, I like the composition.

DonRicklin

Doug Solis wrote: »

OK, here is my vote. I like the background of #2 the best, it is not a busy and #1 and it allows the viewer to direct their attention on the subject. But the subject tree ect has much better contrast in #1. So I would use a mask and paint back the contrast from image one to image 2. In other words, have #1 as the bottom layer and #2 as the top layer with an attached mask on #2. then paint in black to reveal the subject. Hope that helps. Nice shot btw, I like the composition.

Sounds like worth trying!

I haven't worked these images in quite awhile! Time to hook- up the drive they are on and fire up PSCS4!

Thank you for looking and commenting !

Don


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