Playing further with tree cut-outs and their shadows has thrown up many thoughts and questions. Unusual lighting conditions when photographing produced unexpected results (this first image has not been manipulated for colour in Photoshop) ...
I then cropped another image and converted it into black and white, as I so often do, adjusting the contrast levels in Photoshop.
Doing this for several images gave many opportunities for cropping, rotating and abstracting which gave firstly this ...
... and then this ...
and finally this ...
It was interesting that these last three images did exactly the reverse of the first two, flattening out the images and losing that intense sense of 3D. The reference to trees was lost and the process produced graphic images where shape and black / white / gray contrast mattered the most.
All idle play right now, but may lead somewhere later ...
... which gave me scope to play with colour in the Photoshop adjustment layers (there were many colour variations of this image) ...
Both of these seemed to give an extraordinary sense of depth to the image ... interesting what colour can do!
Doing this for several images gave many opportunities for cropping, rotating and abstracting which gave firstly this ...
... and then this ...
It was interesting that these last three images did exactly the reverse of the first two, flattening out the images and losing that intense sense of 3D. The reference to trees was lost and the process produced graphic images where shape and black / white / gray contrast mattered the most.
All idle play right now, but may lead somewhere later ...
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