The Breathing Branch

[Reinardina]

I was fascinated by this spooky looking branch and of course had to take a picture.

Having had very good feedback recently on how to improve two of my other photos, I'd like to ask your opinion on this one.

[pburness]

Hi Reinardina,
Nicely captured, personnaly, I'd crop the right hand branch out and the car and tree trunk at the bottom. This will throw the focus on the main branch and the evaporation..

Phil

[karenoliver]

Beautiful capture, Reinardina :-) I agree with Phil about cropping, it would be be nice to go in closer to the evaporation or mist and focus on that. Other than that I think the lighting is superb and you have a great eye for details like this.

Karen

Super capture Reinardina.

Before doing a thing, save the Raw as .tiff version and increase the image size and look at all the fine threads of spider's web, as they add to the fine detail and should be considered within the overall composition before you start cropping.

Yes the car roof and the top of the fencing distracts from the image on view here, a crop would certainly spring to mind. The light through the trees lower right also draws the eye away from the evaporation and main central branch details.

Regarding the larger branch top right, I would perhaps consider lightening the actual branch on its own, with perhaps a guassian blurring to soften the edges effectively throwing it more out of focus and seemingly then further away from the main focal area of the image. Even to suggest some fine cloning rather than any additional cropping.

Nice work.