Aspen grove

Posted by Roger Rouch on Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:03 pm

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I had the fortune to camp close to a great aspen grove this fall and found myself shooting the trees instead of grander landscapes. Opinions and thoughts helpful.

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by stevebein on Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:11 pm

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Love the aspen trunks. Well done.

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by Harvey Edelman on Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:17 pm

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Simple and well done.

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by Gary Hamer on Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:41 am

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Very very nice. I would prefer the image with the very bottom cropped off - just far enuf to eliminate the branch in the center. Just a nit though...

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by Ken Cravillion on Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:54 am

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I agree with Gary. A little bit off the bottom works well.

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by Peter McCabe on Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:05 am

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Like this, though I agree with others, cropping the bottom improves the composition and makes the image stonger, in my opinion.

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by Laura Stiefel on Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:44 am

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A really lovely autumnal scene. I do think the suggested crop makes it yet more lovely still.

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:20 am

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I like this very much as is - if there is a crop off the bottom, I would want it to be relatively small.

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by blovius on Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:00 am

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forget the crop - the aspens are so much more aspeny because of the texture and color juxstaposition visavis the foreground. Maybe, and I stress MAYBE, if the foreground were darkened a bit in PS.....

p.s. the diagonal created by the forground border is also an interesting counterpoint the the verticality of the aspens.

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by Maxis Gamez on Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:15 pm