The weather this week has been awful ... near blizzard conditions, cold, windy, you name it. When the sun came out this morning, I grabbed my camera and went looking. I couldn't resist this lone tree in a farmer's field. I adjusted the saturation a little and cloned out a telephone pole and wires to place more emphasis on the tree.
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I think your grainy look here is caused by the file size distortion. I think your image is supposed to be viewed larger but since you can only submit smaller images its messed up the view. I like the color saturation maybe to much stuff in the foreground that doesn't add to the image.
sky is messed up. Noisy, probably oversaturated. Not that this isn't a nice picture, but the sky is a really big distraction. Even if the horizon is truly tilted, it might not hurt to straighten it. It would also bring the tree to more of a right angle.
I like this. I know the "photographic rules" etc say "forground interest" but if you crop the bottom of the picture to get rid of the foregound, that tree looks so lonely and isolated. It pulls it right out of the picture. Also if the camera had gone very slightly further to the left to get the complete shadow of the tree in it would have looked even more isolated. (I accept though that there may be something else there and it could not be done)
Like how the tree has been offset and the long grass adds interest in the foreground. Using "neat Image" to clean up the noise in the blue sky would have added to the picture.
Good composition. well done
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