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Regards,

TB

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Ralph

That gray one that you used in some of pics looks better.

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Mittar

The blue looks pretty good TB. It looked a little bright on the small pictures but not when I opened them up.

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Carl_Bergstrom

Here I don't agree. The two are decidedly different - and some trees will be more suited to one backdrop than another - but I'd hate to say that one is better in general. They bring out different aspects of the subject. A tree with colored flowers, for example, will have its color brought out by the blue, while that color will recede when photographed on the grey. A subdued forest may look better on the grey; the deep green of healthy foliage stands out against the blue.

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Pheminyne

i've been playing around with my cheap little digital camera for 2 years (a kodak dc3200), and there's one thing i've discovered regarding brightness in pictures. with my camera and a close up subject, the flash is often too much. it washes out the pictures. even tho i try to darken them, they are still washed out. without the flash the pictures often seem too dark, but they lighten rather well in my favorite photo editing software. it seems to me that too-bright pictures have lots of white and the software darkens it all as one color. too dark pictures have many different blacks, browns, dark greens, dark blues and grays, which are hard to see on my tiny lcd screen, but they keep their differences when lightened, making an overall better picture. to find a happy medium right on my lcd screen, i place a piece of masking tape or tracing paper over my flash and use it anyway (i've even used my t-shirt in a pinch ). i'd personally rather take a picture that is too dark and play with it later, than to take a picture that is too bright and add colors where there aren't any.

i hope i've explained what i mean!! i can show some examples if anyone wants. hope this helps someone.......

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Pheminyne

oops! forgot to add....
i like the first picture of each tree the best, though there is a tad bit of blurriness in the one of the larch. the backgrounds are a little dark, but i think they should be, to me it makes the tree stand out more.
excellent trees, by the way!!

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