Neutopia - Stillborne

Are we looking at palm trees after a storm? The contrast and sky make this a very interesting image.

 

Palm trees for sure, but been dead three or four years now.

 

Really interesting angles there, but a little oversharpened for my tastes.

 

Thanks Max. Appreciate your comments.

 

I see some noise in the clouds that can be removed, but other than that little nitpick I think this is a really interesting shot.

 

I've been fooling around with the series this morning and came up with this:


It looks ok I suppose - but kinda,... meh.

The oversharpening and noise were purposeful. I'm trying to use the 'faults' to (gek, I guess I gotta say it), convey my vision- What I saw and felt. I thought it meshed with the 'stillborne' part of the title.

The color edits are coming out wild .

 

interesting shots, I like the first one a lot. its crazy how they are all crooked but almost the same angle.. cool capture

 

I saw palm trees like this in Florida. Where were they taken? Mother Nature...the ultimate artist.

 

I like both these shots....the sky does look better in #2.

 

Thanks. I like the first one too. The second one sort of went south a bit with the sun behind a cloud.

I imagine in Florida it was because of disasterous weather. These died of neglect. They were the facade of a modern day California Desert real estate scam.

I think so too- but the theme around here is 'stick with your vision.'

I haven't looked back at the original edit on this one. The corner thing is starting to bug me too. I tried something different on the sky that may have skrichted it up too much. As mentioned above, I'm trying not to second guess myself (too much )

So what I'm doing is taking my time with the color edits and working to get exactly what I want, but step by step.

Snowed here yesterday. Going to get my head out of these and go stick it under a hat somewhere cold.