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I think your treatment of this scene is a bit too dark. You've lost a lot of the details.
I used some shadow recovery and then tried to create a bit more variation in tone between the sand and the sky. I burned the highlights a bit as well.
Thanks, Steve. I did a similar but different edit. it's a tree on a beach and thusly in 99% of the cases, quite drab and totally boring, hence the over-exuberance of the original PP work...this last edit while still a bit on the dark side is better on the overall tonal range.
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The problem with sleist's version is that it's an attempt to make a deliberately surrealist picture look realistic again.
I liked the original pretty well. It's a good concept, well executed. Not necessarily something I would do myself, or that I even like, but it has a lot of clarity of vision. The composition is nice, and lends itself to this highly graphical treatment, I think. There's a strong dreamlike quality to it. I dunno, is it the sensation of waking up on the beach after dozing off against another log of driftwood? It's something, anyways, it's reaching for something more.
When you make it look realistic, it becomes driftwood on the beach. A perfectly nice shot of driftwood on the beach, but that's all it is.