John Muir trail, Bronx NY

[cteba]

Taken with Nikon D 5000

[Doctor Atomo]

Beautiful shot.
Maybe a little more contrast, a couple shades lighter sepia.
The out of focus forefround is making me blink, to get the crap out of my eyes so I can see clearly.
Maybe if you took the shot from just a little higher, pointed toward the trees a few degrees?

[SriMesh]

Hi there, this is a wonderful forest scene capturing good values and tones for the conversion to sepia.

I see what Dr. Atomo says afore me to either maximize depth of field and/or think about foregrounds. In this sense this photo could give the viewer a better focal point and subject if it was cropped either square format or upright portrait photo using the west edge of the road to lead out of the bottom right hand corner of the photograph The eye would not wander aimlessly over the western portion of the capture which is all movement and texture, and half trees and nothing solid. The image would retain practically all of the east side of the capture with a square crop, and the west edge of the road would pretty much meet the photograph corner with a portrait 4:3 crop.

It would define your foreground focal point as the items on the road, the midground focal point as the road or trail, which is the title of the piece, and finally the forest trees which are complete and not chopped off for the background focal point producing 3 dimensional depth in a 2 dimensional photograph. It also lets the viewers be OK with the chopped off trees, as there is a nice S shaped path - the trail which is the largest focal point - to enter the forest on, which lead to a complete background tree. It also eliminates some of the distractions on the western side of the image and those larger foreground items which are out of focus.

Landscape tips also covers this a bit fuller in detail

This is IMHO. Good luck!

[cteba]

Thank you!

[windrider86]

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