Tree and Stone

A new image for your consideration...

Very interesting.

How do you create these images - in particular last week's competition entry :

Tree and Stone was created by using Blending Modes in Photoshop and is made from two images.

The fireworks shot is a stack of separate images from Southport. All the fireworks were shot on B. The bridge for the foreground is the top shot. It too had a black sky, selected using Magic Wand and deleted, leaving the other shots behind visible. A little tidying and erasing to reveal more shots below and we get the composite.

Black skies are great for this technique as they are very easy to select and remove.

I think I like it . . . but I'm not sure. I need more time to digest it's visual attributes.

You do come up with some good ideas. Inspirational.

At first, I thought you might have some serious sensor cleaning to do

Not really my type of photography John but i am assuming you need to put a lot of work into it :

So i ask, what made you want rocks in the picture :
Sorry maybe i just don't get it

Have to agree with Clarky with this one. Your piano shot, with music overlaid, makes sense, but I don't see the connection between the stones and the tree... It looks as though it's a grassy landscape.

Dan

While it is an arresting image, I'd prefer it without the stones. After the initial impact, I'm thinking, 'dammit, I can't see the tree!'.

Lens swapping during an avalanche, doesn't seem a good idea
But seriously.....,the stones are a bit to much for me. Maybe because I can imagine the tree picture without them. Very sereen and calm . A scene I would love to be for some landscaping.
Martin.

I like it.
Ok the relationship between stones and the tree is not clear, but I like the overall picture. The colours work well, the image in striking. It has an interesting surreal effect. I would hang it on my wall.

It is the sort of picture about which my ma-in-law would ask "But what's it supposed to be?". And when you reply "it just is" she goes "Oh".
A conversation we have had a couple of times - once for an Escher print, and once for the print of an abstract painting we have hanging on our walls.

They don't call JR the Dali of Atherton for nothing.

He's going to have to cultivate a waxed moustache.

I rather like the picture.

G

I like the result very much

Well that got a few responses, many thanks for the comments.

The connection between stone and trees is that both are of the earth. The Earth is stone and the tree is life erupting from the rocky earth....

The Dali of Atherton, mmm, I like that, so perhaps I'll grow the moustache and post a picture.

the color scheme works and the way the tree braches blend into the stones (becoming veins in appearance) is nice....
still, I'm a little lost because the image is busy, and doesn't draw me in, and hold my attention at any one point....

now if one of those stones had a shape with recognizable interest (ie shaped like an animal's or persons face) in a power point of the composition, it would elevate the peice from "Very Nice" to "How Much?$$$"

over all I really like it.

Mmm . . . I think the idea of putting the tree and stone together the effect you have created is really interesting. However like Don I feel that the image is too busy - my eye seems to be drawn to the empty space to the left of the tree. I also don't like the hard line that has been created on the right of the tree between the sky and the stone - It doesn't blend in in the same way as the other junctions between stone and sky.

Steve

Blimey John - that was quick!




Steve