Japanese maple double fract effect

[Dan Brown]

Please give me some feedback on this piece! I like it but then again, I don't? What do you all think? Trash or treasure or so, so?

I used fractialus in Yin/Yang layers, one black lines and the other glow50 with a few tweaks, then adjusted opacity, erased selectively from both layers down to the original BG layer.

C&C welcome and needed!!!:eek:

[Anita Bower]

Hmmmm. The bright red leaves coming in from ULC don't seem to fit with the rest of the image. I like the red, black and white. I haven't used fractilus, so have no suggestions to make.

[denise ippolito]

Dan, I like it but with a hefty crop from the top. Let me know your thoughts.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Dan, I like it, but prefer Denise's crop. I think I would prefer the whites a little less white. I haven't tried multiple fracts on images yet....now I'll have to try it out too!

[Brendan Dozier]

I think you have some very cool patterns & colors going on here, Dan. May just need to be simplified some more, as it is a little busy. Denise's crop is a good start, but I agree with Anita, that the bright red leafs seem a bit out of place. I think you are on to something with the combination of processing you used on this.

[Scott Vincent]

Hi Dan - Interesting and creative - I think the crop improves the image - keep up the experimentation!!

[Dan Brown]

Thanks all for the great input! I will work on this with these suggestions!

[Dan Brown]

So here's a redo. I cropped using an 8X10 ratio (for possible printing), about 30% down from the original post, which was full frame and toned down the whites. This is a "busy" image, so not much can be done about that. What do you think?

[Anita Bower]

Dan: Can you put some of the black borders around the very bright red leaves coming in diagonally? Or something that helps define them more?

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Dan, I'm on the fence about this one... I like the colors and textures, but I feel that the image doesn't quite know what it wants to be - bright and cheerful, or dark and foreboding. I guess that's part of the yin and yang thing. There are a lot of cropping possibilities, and I might take your last post and crop it from the bottom into a pano. Interesting idea!