[Leica] PAW 2 - Apple Tree in Winter - Advice sought

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Gerry, Daniel, Hoppy,

thanks for your comments see below in-line.

Hoppy, interesting that you used the word "brittke" which describes it very 
well.

Gerry Walden wrote:
> Maybe a green filter would have helped on this as it would have
> provided some depth to it.
> 
> Gerry

It was just a chance shot with the camera I had in my pocket and nothing 
else 
apart from a spare roll of film! Perhaps I shouldn't have tried to "print" 
it 
up, but...
> 
> On 14/02/07, Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suspect that what you found difficult was the background. The brick
>> wall is just too close to the subject and detracts from it. It is
>> patterned and it has about the same tonal values.

I have tried any number of things to seperate them! It was a chance shot, 
which 
I looked at a lot before trying to do anything with it. I am still not 
convinced 
that it can't be salvaged. I like the textures of the wall very much, with 
the 
tracery of the branches across it.
>>
>> It would be difficult, if not impossible, to print it "down". Probably
>> the best way to have gotten separation between the wall and the tree
>> would have been to shoot in color.
>>
>> Daniel
> 
The seperation would have been difficult in B&W because the wall was a 
mixture 
of dark red/brown, greys, lime cement and snoww-white with the tree mostly 
grey 
with snow on it.

Thanks guys,

Peter