A Lone Tree

A lone tree on a hill overlooking my town...

Very nice, I like it. I like the smooth transition into sky the way the sky because very dark. That is a great tree with lots of possibilities. What I suggest and what you might have already done if you can do it., is take at least 20 images. Facing N,S, E and West, shoot with camera over your head, at ground level. Different backgrounds, shoot into the sun and have the branches covering the sun. If not set your aperture to F11 or 14 with a wide angle sens and get sun stars, shoot telephoto to isolate the tree. Shoot it at sunset/sunrise. Then use props. Tie a colorful kite to the tree and do B&W with colored kite, hang a childs swing or  tire, have a friend read a book under the tree, bring a chair, swing on the tree or lay down. shoot your friend and tree in silhouette, then come home and process the ones that look good. I bet you can get a lot more good pictures out of that one tree.

r1ch wrote: Very nice, I like it. I like the smooth transition into sky the way the sky because very dark. That is a great tree with lots of possibilities. What I suggest and what you might have already done if you can do it., is take at least 20 images. Facing N,S, E and West, shoot with camera over your head, at ground level. Different backgrounds, shoot into the sun and have the branches covering the sun. If not set your aperture to F11 or 14 with a wide angle sens and get sun stars, shoot telephoto to isolate the tree. Shoot it at sunset/sunrise. Then use props. Tie a colorful kite to the tree and do B&W with colored kite, hang a childs swing or  tire, have a friend read a book under the tree, bring a chair, swing on the tree or lay down. shoot your friend and tree in silhouette, then come home and process the ones that look good. I bet you can get a lot more good pictures out of that one tree.

Shot with a 10-18mm wide angle, the photos been cropped quite a bit. This was taken early morning, the sun was quite low and directly behind me. Taking photos from different angles wasn't really an option because a) I cannot seem to master exposure when there's sun and the photos are always overexposed and b) the tree isn't 'lone' at all. Moving around would've exposed my lie  It's all about the frame, right? Tyring different angles... yeah I prolly should've tried that. It was really cold though and I wasn't really in the mood to crouch around on the icy ground. The dark sky is exagerrated by some vignetting.

Typically I take multiple shots of the same thing at different settings, each time changing shutter speed or f-stop. But again, my kryptonite is the sun. Even coming from the side the sun cause massive over-exposure resulting in bleached areas in photo. I think once I know how to tame the sunlight I can really step things up.

Esseff wrote :   It's all about the frame, right? Tyring different angles...

   Very good Esseff.  Glad  you have realised this . Keep practicing that when it's not too cold .


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r1ch wrote: Very nice, I like it. I like the smooth transition into sky the way the sky because very dark. That is a great tree with lots of possibilities. What I suggest and what you might have already done if you can do it., is take at least 20 images. Facing N,S, E and West, shoot with camera over your head, at ground level. Different backgrounds, shoot into the sun and have the branches covering the sun. If not set your aperture to F11 or 14 with a wide angle sens and get sun stars, shoot telephoto to isolate the tree. Shoot it at sunset/sunrise. Then use props. Tie a colorful kite to the tree and do B&W with colored kite, hang a childs swing or  tire, have a friend read a book under the tree, bring a chair, swing on the tree or lay down. shoot your friend and tree in silhouette, then come home and process the ones that look good. I bet you can get a lot more good pictures out of that one tree.

Wow! As a spectator, I am also learning.