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Comment by jaysonmc:
Just looking through the comments before I post.
Thinking about this picture, I don't think it was "overexposed" when you took it. You probably adjusted the contrast either through the slider or via curves a bit too much which caused the whites to bleed out. Just a guess.

However, I do like what you were trying to do. Make the birch trees more stark is always a good idea. I don't use photoshop myself so I can't really help. Still, I think the composition is pretty strong as a whole and a terrific shot seen in the eye!

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Comment by sherpet:
Love the texture of the bark on the trees, and this is a very pleasinf landscape.....

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Comment by Jutilda:
I like your results as well. Birch trees? I love the white bark. The composition is good and the contrast - well done.

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Comment by Retroesque:
Well done for your first time. Just a couple of things I noticed first, the sky is very flat - pity there wasn't at least a cloud in the sky - GRIN!

And maybe just a little oversharpened?

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Comment by littlegett:
this is a narly dead tree. For me though I would have liked a bit more separation from the background. Maybe a bit of dodgeing around the tree to bring it out more.

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Comment by violinist123:
In general I think this is a bit overexposed. There's no winning with a daytime sky, but there are a lot of spots on the tree trunks and the rocks in the foreground that appear to have lost all detail.

The black and white processing you used seems to work well. Nice range of tones throughout the shot. I think the shot itself sort of suffers from the lack of any main subject though. As I look at it I keep wanting to be able to zoom in on those large rocks in the foreground. Wondering how it would look if shot from down low with the rocks and those tree trunks dominating the frame (and there would be no more sky to worry about either).

Overall nice work.

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Comment by SandyP:
Wow! You did very good on your first processing job. I like the end results too. The white tree trunks really pop, and give you such a good range of blacks and whites!

Congratulations. Looking forward to more of your stuff :)

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Comment by KarenNfld:
I really like the detail on the bark, not so fond of the sky or the ground.

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Comment by CapeSail:
I think birch trees always make for good B&W, they always add contrast to their surroundings. For one of your first conversions it's a very nice job. The blown out sky you could have masked and then darkened. I really like taking landscape/seascape shots, I still get blown out skies even with a Polarizer Filter so a Graduated ND Filter would also be a big help.

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Comment by UNCLEBRO:
well, i don't know what the original looks like, so i can't tell how much you've improved it.
but i can say that i think you've picked a good subject to convert.
the only part i don't like is the "blown out" sky.
but that probably couldn't be avoided?