Thanks to all who posted comments on this. Looks interesting enough to try some of your suggested improvements.
So here is round #2: http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4285b.htm Original for comparison: http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4285.htm -- Bruce Thursday, February 1, 2007, 12:40:54 PM, you wrote: GD> Crop it square, even out the illumination and shadow on the GD> foreground, and you have Rene Magritte beat. ;-) GD> G GD> On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> This is a broken off tree stump. The lighting, coloring of the wood >> and the sky as background cause it to look sort of like a mountain or >> something. I'm not even sure how appealing it is, but it is rather >> interesting. >> >> Pentax K10D, DA 16-45/4, Handheld >> ISO 100, 1/125 sec @ f/13 >> >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4285.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net