The Forest of Hopeless
by posthumous

Comment by bvy:
Effectively framed to show off all sorts of wonderful textures and chaotic fractal-like patterns.

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by posthumous

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Love the way you used grain and color. This could be a cutout entry. If it's not, then please take that as a compliment.

The Forest of Hopeless
by posthumous

Comment by bmartuch:
This looks like death. Very cool.8

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Comment by scooter97:
Very creative!

The Forest of Hopeless
by posthumous

Comment by Paul:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for the Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: Well, the image does communicate a sense of foreboding and the difference in the lighting of the branches offers the viewer an interesting pattern - almost like a lightening storm.

Critical stuff: The level of intrinsic interest in this scene is pretty low and I'm not sure that whatever choices you made in post-processing was ever going to overcome that. The main issue for me is how flat the image looks - perhaps you have tried to eliminate a sense of depth with your edit; if that is the case, perhaps a different title such as 'The impenetrable Forest' may have communicated the wall like nature of the scene a little better.

Overall: A difficult image to like, though the pattern of the branches is interesting, there is little else in the scene to hold a viewers interest. The good pattern might make this an excellent candidate for an overlay texture but as a standalone image it's not one I warm to. Apologies.

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Comment by Mitch55:
Probably not a 'basic editing' submission, but I like the effect. But only gets a 4 due to heavy editing.

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Comment by Art Roflmao:
A possible posthumous contender. I'm not a huge appreciator of abstraction but I really like this.

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Comment by mitalapo:
The face and expression will probably keep my mind busy for a while. These and the tones remind me of posthumous .

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Comment by bmartuch:
Great shot. Love the color and the grain.

draco
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Comment by Cory:
Burned paper on snow?

Leaf. . . not paper. . . Courtesy Mr. Burns