panorama made from 6 images, then a whole WHACK of layers - two hue/sat.s, gradient, bright/contrast, (all with masks), flatten, Gaussian blur masked, um, and others. lots.
I'm not sure if this will do well. i think the image is too big to show up properly. the stuff on the ground is the remains of a tree, cut, chopped, but not split. this seemed pretty harsh for a tree to live beside, to me...
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This is a bummer it got a low score, I gave it a 7 I liked it alot. I like the long image and the black & white works good. I think it would make a good scary movie poster. (I like the lighting, and I don't think it is too dark, more just right)
I had a lot of trouble seeing this image on my monitor. I couldn't see the whole thing at once without copying it and viewing it in Windows Picture Viewer at a reduced size. Either way, on DPC or in Windows, I couldn't see it well enough to tell about the focus. I think I would like it a lot if I saw a very large print on a large gallery wall.
This is actually quite nice but I'm put off by the extremely tight crop in this forum. As a specialty sized print say 8 inches tall by whatever the width would be, this would probably work very nicely. Sometimes you gotta keep in mind the dimensions that we have to work with when entering the challenges.
TC
PS: I'm bumping it up slightly from my original gut instinct score...
I'm just going to go right out and say it: these extremely long thin images just don't work for me in a challenge situation: after paging through images that fill the page with big bold beautiful pictures, a long skinny, is a shock to the system which has been mesmerised up to that point. Now suddenly I've got to lean in close to the screen and scroll up and down because I can only see part of the image at a time, and so ultimately I get to see an image about 1/8 the size of the rest.
Having said that: I think your subject and composition are brilliant...if this had been a large square image it would have had so much impact.
I bet this would look phenomenal in BIG print like 2-3 meters high up on a wall but presented like this, in small websize resolution it just doesn´t work for me as dramatically as it might up on a wall. Courageous effort though, two thumbs up for that.
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