River Berries

[alenz]

although slightly dark..it invokes a mood of sorts to me.

[FrankenPengie]

I've mixed emotions here. Looks good but I'm thinkin', are they as yummy as they look or temptingly poisonous?

[alenz]

no idea...I was once told that if you see birds eating the berries off of a tree...
then they are ok to eat...I'm not going to try based on a theory.
maybe someone out there can enlighten us on the berry rule.

[Zaahir]

lol, great shot. the darkness does provoke some sort of mood.
the berry rule that i know of.. if the berry is black. its safer.
and i'm still alive after numerous hiking trips and black berry eating..

[wulf]

Birds can eat a bunch of things that aren't so good for human consumption so I wouldn't put a lot of store in the "rule of birds"!

I do like this picture - although dark, it has plenty of colour. I wonder if it would be improved without that twiggy element on the berry halfway up the left hand side? Unless taking pictures for scientific purposes, I don't think it is dishonest to give your subject a little grooming (although taking care not to harm it).

Also, did you try a few different angles to experiment with how the foreground, mid and background sets of berries fit together?

Wulf

[alenz]

here it is cropped tighter...yes I did take others from different angles..the
wind picked up...hand held with a macro...(see where I am going with this?)

also the twiggy little thing was distracting but I decided...if it's not on the lens
leave it alone...

Thanks for your inputs.

[wulf]

I prefer the closer crop - it makes more of the colour and still has the bokeh thing going (attractive blurry bits out of the DoF) while avoiding the twiggy bit.

The only difference I might have made would have been to move the frame a little lower - less space above the top berry and catching more of the blurry half berry at the bottom.

Wulf