Based on your and Paul's responses, and studying the photo a bit further, what I think works is to soften the intensity of the large dark twig by a bit to reduce its weight in the scene. That achieves the idea I had in mind.
I've replaced the original with a revision... http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/48b.htm Further comments invited, of course. Thanks for all your comments! :-) best, Godfrey On Nov 25, 2007, at 9:44 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > seriously - the darkest thing in the photo is blurry - and it is on > the > right... so it kinda leaps out at you. > if the foreground twigs had been blurry and the large twig sharp it > perhaps might have worked ... > For me it isn't that you used shallow DOF, but that what was not in > focus overwhelmed the rest. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
