I'm always trial and error new kinds of photography and this is one of the experiments I did last time. In my last post here in this forum, I noticed that you find defintely that I should not focus on the trees, so that I have not that much blurring on my photos. But this shot needs, that's my personal opinion, the blurring, because only with this blurring you see the structure of this part as good as you see here.
However I'm open for criticism and generally feedback for this capture!
Thanks Scott and Khaled for your feedback! It really helps, I will definetely consider it for the future pictures!
Some very good advice already, and must say they I prefer this image to the last.... My advice would pretty much reflect what has been said by Khaled. A lot depends on what you were trying to achieve compositionally, as it could almost work as an abstract, but if you were aiming more for the style of Khaled's sample image, then you need a larger area in focas, because although we can see it is a tree, it serves no real purpose in the composition.... Maybe just pull the camera back a bit, make the tree the focas for the composition rather than a band on the side. This composition would work without the focas tricks, as the tree would then serve a purpose, as it would make the viewer feel like they are looking around the tree into the distance, without that you are not drawing the viewer in, consequently this makes the image feel quite flat.
Hope this helps
Scott
Hi Knut, i hope you don't mind if i paste my advice from your previous post also to this one - as it is also related to this topic here. :)
I wouldn't say that it is wrong to capture also those kind of images with a quite big focus range - honestly it's quite the contrary; sometimes it has indeed a great artistic character to have a focused foreground and a nice bokeh in the background. But i would just go for it, if the respective foreground has some interesting/exciting elemts and subjects to focus on.
At the end it really depends on the scenery and subject and what you're intending to express with your capture! ;-)
As a reference I have also attached one of my images here where i've used to go for a selected focus.