Norbert Kern wrote:
> I want to finish this WIP, but how?
> Starting from an atmosphere test (thanks to Abe for the starting point), the
> scene quickly developed to an half-finished state.
> Recently Gilles Tran motivated me to start working on it again after showing
> an earlier version to him along the way.
> The rock and the dead mossy tree are still likely to be changed.
> 
> Two questions:
> - The image seems to lack something - but what? I already added and deleted
> several animals, they didn't seem to fit.

The sense of "lacking" might be primary to the theme itself.  The main 
question is who is the viewer?  What is the viewer's relationship to the 
plane?  The title is "boreal", northern, but the larger theme is 
"primordial", primeval,...pristine. The sense of which is punctuated by 
the bush flight.  Whatever else you add to the scene must confront this 
dilemma.  That is why animals won't work unless you define what they are 
saying about the plane and the viewer.  The scene hinges on this 
mystery.  Is it a mundane snap of a plane buzzing a bush fire?  Or is 
there something more?

Three things strike me as so wonderful about the scene.  The sense of 
the foliage.  Not only the contrast between the structures of two 
ancient species, but the  sense of their placement, the way they occupy 
space, push against the air, sustain their own weight.  The sense of 
terrain, its scale, and its extension into the distance.  And the 
dramatic effect of the lens distortion which makes our viewing of the 
scene immediately self-conscious.


> - Is the picture bright enough? I have three different LCD monitors, all
> with different Gamma. I want to collect other opinions.
> 
>
Brightness looks perfect to me. I can see the texture in the closer tree 
trunks yet the shadows look deep and delicious.

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