The Tree

[Kobus Tollig]

Single exposure with my New Toys
Canon 5Dmk2
Canon 17-40
Pol Filter and ND8 grad

ISO50
f14
ss30sec
22mm

All comments & Crits welcome and appreciated
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[Harold Davis]

kobus, this is just great for me. with the way the clouds are, the center placement of the tree is perfect. i was wondering if a crop off the bottom would make it feel even more desolate. i think i would only do that if i had more room to add up top. nice job and big congrats on the new toys!!!

[Myer Bornstein]

Wonderful, you can sense the dosolation and the sense of motion in the clouds. a small crop of the bottom I think would help use my monitor to bring the bottom of the image down and it looked better to my eyes

[Dave Mills]

Hi Kobus, Very dramatic! In this case the centered tree works. The clouds really give the image it's intensity. As far as cropping off the bottom I could go either way on this...

[Morkel Erasmus]

love this bud. stunning mood, unusual composition and good toning on the conversion. if anything I wish the darker branches at the top (probably due to the grad) were lighter.

[Robert Amoruso]

Good example of when a centered subject can work and that is because of the clouds and the symmetry they provide. B&W good choice here.

I would have moved a bit to the left so that the tree on the horizon did not merge with the FG tree's trunk. A small matter to be sure but the kind of field tweak that helps.

[Kobus Tollig]

Thank you all for the great comments. I like the comp as is. I did a shot with less fg but this works better for me....i quess its a matter of taste.
Robert is see what you mean.....Thank you

[Ed Vatza]

The tree may be center of attention but the clouds steal the show in my opinion. The are wonderful and complement the tree perfectly to my eye. Well done.

[Garry Gibson]

I really like this a lot. The black and white looks perfect to me and the movement of the clouds
do really make the photograph special.

[Kobus Tollig]

Thank you Ed and Garry appreciate the comments lots

[Bob Miller]

Hi Kobus...Nothing more to add to above comments so I will just say" Good Show"