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This tree caught my eye whilst driving (and yes I parked the car first)

Taken with the 20/2.8 - it's interesting in colour as well - purple tree against a blue sky but I think I preferred this monochrome conversion...

Thoughts?

I am seeing a cropped version on the iPad so can't see the right side. Of what I can, it is a striking tree and you have captured it well. The mono works, but the lower left hand blends too much with the bushes behind the fence. Not sure how you can fix this but perhaps adjusting the colour settings may change the relative tones?

This is one that has so much potential...just screaming for a background transplant!

Rodney
It is possible to snap these types of images whilst driving your car. You need to lean out of the window and learn the 1 hand shoot and over the roof snap styles. Advanced practitioners will go the rear vision mirror reversal shot. It is best to practice whilst parked in a paddock or somewhere else safe before you attempt the real thing. Do be sure to keep at least 1 eye on the road and make sure your camera does not have an inbuilt telephone because this act would then become illegal. Ignore the cat calls of other motorisits who have no grasp of your passion for photography. They don't own the road.

Back to your image....It has everything going for it except an 'eye hook'. That is, something that grabs the eye and then leads it about the image. I'm imagining this image with a black cat running across from bottom right of the image space towards the nearest street sign. Something like that would lift the image to a near masterpiece. It's the bottom right hand corner that is crying out for one more element to wrap up and unify the composition. I have many images like this and I know I need to go back and somehow add that element. I often pop them away as backgrounds and if ever I need to do a portrait or product shot of any kind then I have a variety of these backgrounds to flick through and choose from. Almost anything placed into that position would have worked....an old picture frame with a faded image in it....a gumboot, rusty pushbike etc etc.
Which begs the question...perhaps we should carry a box full junk in the boot of our cars for just this purpose. Perhaps we should start a poll amongst the forum members to see what objects would be most suitable to put into that box?
My 3 would be: a broken doll....newspaper front page of John Kennedy assination....a broken mantle clock.

Matt. K wrote:Rodney
It is possible to snap these types of images whilst driving your car. You need to lean out of the window and learn the 1 hand shoot and over the roof snap styles. Advanced practitioners will go the rear vision mirror reversal shot. It is best to practice whilst parked in a paddock or somewhere else safe before you attempt the real thing. Do be sure to keep at least 1 eye on the road and make sure your camera does not have an inbuilt telephone because this act would then become illegal. Ignore the cat calls of other motorisits who have no grasp of your passion for photography. They don't own the road.

Matt. K wrote:Which begs the question...perhaps we should carry a box full junk in the boot of our cars for just this purpose. Perhaps we should start a poll amongst the forum members to see what objects would be most suitable to put into that box?

Free dope

I can see the thought about a black cat in the image might work, but for me the shot is just too busy with lines going in all directions and the light too harsh. The tree itself is interesting and it is something I would like to see in a paddock on its own with soft morning or afternoon light.

Thanks everyone and it pretty much confirms my own thoughts - I liked the tree and esp this particular angle - I just wish it was at the top of a small hill in the middle of an empty field

Reschsmooth wrote:

Matt. K wrote:Which begs the question...perhaps we should carry a box full junk in the boot of our cars for just this purpose. Perhaps we should start a poll amongst the forum members to see what objects would be most suitable to put into that box?

Free dope

lmfaoooooooo