While I enjoy the position of the tree on the right offsetting the glimpse of the stream on the left and the road betwixt. I can't help but think you've tried to create more interest in an otherwise uninteresting frame by the use of heavy vignette and burning of shadows.
I feel it's a bad sign when details in foreground trees are blacken out so that no detail remains, despite it taking pride of place in the frame. I see that, the black of the ditch along the side of the road and the black of the stream going off in the corner of the frame, and it just screams of over-processing. The interest points have been blacked out so much, they are no longer interest points.
Granted the effect leads the eye up the path, and the stream intersects at the apex forming pleasing triangular motion in the image, but I still feel that tree is so dominating in the landscape of this image that it needs more than black to describe it.
I feel it's a bad sign when details in foreground trees are blacken out so that no detail remains, despite it taking pride of place in the frame. I see that, the black of the ditch along the side of the road and the black of the stream going off in the corner of the frame, and it just screams of over-processing. The interest points have been blacked out so much, they are no longer interest points.
Granted the effect leads the eye up the path, and the stream intersects at the apex forming pleasing triangular motion in the image, but I still feel that tree is so dominating in the landscape of this image that it needs more than black to describe it.
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