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Fungus


	Fungus Canon 7D, Canon 70-200mmlens,1/160, f/10, Iso 200. Edited in LR 4, viveza and Color Effex Pro 4 Beth Spencer
	A Fungus Among Us Canon 7D, Canon 70-200mm lens, 1/125, f/10, ISO 400 Beth Spencer

Beth Spencer

I couldn't look at another snow picture today, so I thought I would post this. This is fungus growing on some of the stumps from where they timbered a couple a years ago. This was last week when we were not so deep in snow.
I also thought I would post a close up from the same shot.

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March 25, 2013

Dale Hardin

Like this a lot Beth. Both are good but think the close up would look a bit better if at the same tonal level as the first image.

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March 25, 2013

Jeff E Jensen

I agree with Dale on both comments.

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March 26, 2013

Stephen Shoff

Suggest a crop of the original post starting from the top left corner and extending about 1/2 to 2/3 the horizontal and vertical dimensions of hte frame. Maybe alter the aspect ration a little more to a vertical pano so that you can included the horizontal line of plates to use as natural framing.

My thought is that this would give you the opportunity to strengthen the composition by emphasizing a "c" curve of the tree trunk showing through the the fungus, or the the larger curve of fungus framing it using any form of burning/dodging or masked hue/saturation adjustments, and to create some visual layers by emphasizing the fungus haning over the top of the stump.

As it stands now, what it appears to be compositionally to me is a vertical column (static) with some clutter at the bottom. There's lots of nice detail and tonality, but no "center" and limited motion.

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March 26, 2013

Dale Hardin

There is merit to Stephen's suggestion. An 8x10 vertical format crop starting at the top or a 4x6 vertical format created as Stephen suggested, both would strengthen the composition.

However, because there is now no reference to the ground and the height of the stump, the scale would be lost. And you end up with another (albeit a more interesting) version of the second image.

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March 26, 2013

Debbie E. Payne

Beth - I like this a lot. I do like seeing the top of the trunk with the fungus "cascading" down to the trunk from the top. I would include the top and go down as far as you can to where the grass starts and even try cloning just a bit of that grass.

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March 26, 2013

Debbie E. Payne

Beth - I like this a lot. I do like seeing the top of the trunk with the fungus "cascading" down to the trunk from the top. I would include the top and go down as far as you can to where the grass starts and even try cloning just a bit of that grass.

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March 26, 2013

Beth Spencer


	Crop and dodge and burn I cropped it some, but did not want to go to much tighter and then tried dodging and burning some Beth Spencer

I tried to get the tones in the second one to match the first. Then I cropped the first one and tried some dodging and burning. Debbie I am not quite sure what you mean about cloning the grass.

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March 26, 2013

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