In fact I took perhaps 30 images, but many were variations, and many simply unremarkable and unpresentable.
Two notable issues, the first being focus. Standing under the tree looking up, everything seems in focus to the eye. In truth, the eye is rapidly readjusting to the many layers to which to the mind brings its attention. The camera cannot do this. It typically locks on to one or two layers and the rest, while clear on the lcd, is out of focus in the capture. The only remedy for this is physical distance and zoom. Unfortunately, there isn't enough distance to be had under the tree.
The other issue is finding and bringing out some kind of pattern within a subject that has no easily identifiable shape. A leaf against the sky is easy. A shape emerging from a bramble of branches is not. Part of the problem is seeing, of isolating a shape, the other is using focus properly to capture it. I tried a couple of these and they were absolute failures. Maybe I will have to have another look at Friedlander's The desert seen.
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