Morning View?

[gastrop0d]

Gday Paul. Comes across to me as somewhere between a fire and a storm, heh. If it were a fire I would expect to see orange flames, or a hint of them, somewhere in the trees. Maybe a small orange corona or something.

I think one thing hurting the suggestion of a morning sky is the patch of blue sky near the horizon at the bottom there. Perhaps shift the hue to be a little more pink.

The way that column of dark cloud descends to close to the trees is also working against the suggestion of the piece, I believe. Try culling it back a bit, so it looks more simply like an innocent, albeit dark, cloud floating low. That vertical column also breaks the composition a little.

The far layer of trees appear lighter than the foreground trees, which works slightly to suggest a lightsource off the right of the piece, which seems to tone down the strength of the lightsource from the sun behind them. Maybe gradient the trees down to much darker at their bottom to imply more of a silhouette shading, yet still communicate aerial perspective. Although if you did that they would blend into the foreground trees, so maybe youd have to give a feint sihouette to the foreground trees there, too.

The way those back trees suddenly drop off at their left edge seems a little unnatural, too. Maybe spot a few more after that left edge, or something.

Hmm, that's all I've got. Good luck!

[pau1winslow]

Cheers, I appreciate that :) I'll bare your post in mind when I go back to touch up the image and I'll post my results here, hopefully.

I think I'm gonna work up the forest fire concept and see what I can make of that.

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