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Have you applied a vignette to this image?

Excellent photo Tony. Beautiful.

Would make an outstanding Ozzie postcard. Perhaps back off the vignette just a tad.

Gary said:

Have you applied a vignette to this image?

Do you mean a ....vinaigrette?

I like it.

gstark wrote:Have you applied a vignette to this image?

Radial Filter in LR

TonyT wrote:

gstark wrote:Have you applied a vignette to this image?

Radial Filter in LR

Thanks.

I think (if that's the effect I'm seeing) it should be pulled back a little. It actually looks to me as if, were this being done under an enlarger, the centre section of the image had been held back during exposure of the paper, either to lighten the main subject, or darken the edges.

I'm not convinced that it's needed, and I don't think that it helps this otherwise great image.

Perhaps cropping more tightly, removing some of the space from the top and left edges of the image might be worthwhile?

I think for this kind of image a more even exposure across the frame is fine, mainly since the BG is clean and does not draw the eye away, hence no need to funnel the viewer using vignetting.

i would crop it to get the branch to intersect the corner and tighten the view up a bit.

Having had another look at this pic I find it interesting in that it illustrates 1 of the 'faults' in composition that I used to teach to students. That is, if you have 3 dark corners in an image then the image will tend to 'bleed' out of the light corner. Your image is an excellent example of this in that you have 3 dark corners but the bottom left corner has not been darkened. To reinforce the eye being led out of the image space the viewers eye moves along the diagonal branch to the uppermost bird, which is looking down into the bottom left corner. This leads the eye out of the image space....although in this image the effect is very subtle and does not degrade the quality of the image too much. As an experiment you might like to darken this bottom left corner and lighten the opposite, (top right corner), which should have a slightly counterbalance effect and push the eye back into the image space. Worth a try? It's a great way to discover the power of the different elements in a composition, remembering that the aim of strong composition is to lead the eye around the critical elements of your subject, but never OUT of the image space.