Hi guys! Great discussion here. I appreciate the step by step help , @buddingphotographer. You don’t know how encouraging it is to me to know that you, @Mr. Quebec, are learning and growing so much!
Aside from the “contrasty” topic, I wanted to bring up something else that I noted about the picture. Perhaps what made me notice this was the fact that I ran into a similar problem the other day while out taking pictures of a sunrise. See the attached image (2845)? Notice how the clouds in the background, behind the tree, disrupt the “distinctness” of the tree? Though the tree is very much a silhouette, it really isn’t “distinct” against the background. This keeps the tree from taking any real shape, and thus not catching the eye as being as attractive as it could be. In your shot, the darker clouds behind the tree on the left side cause the same problem.
There’s not much you can do about this except to learn to see it, and either re-position yourself or wait for the darker clouds to pass. Yes, I’m being pretty picky here, but it’s something to take notice of.
In my situation, my attempt to re-position (2847) was not successful, as by that time, the sun was too far up and the clouds too close to the tree to get the shot I was looking for.
