Thanks for the input, Ed! And I agree, the coolest thing about the scene is the red foliage on the floor, which is why I attempted at all to make it work. I have some other comps that show more of the red foliage but they feel a bit too bottom heavy. I think it just may not have been the most ideal spot to shoot in the end.
@Brent_Clark Haha, I feel you man, no worries, and I take that as a compliment! I feel the same way, it just isn’t really doing it for me 100% and doesn’t feel up to my standard as far as other autumn scenes I have shot. I’m hoping I will find some better stuff this year, this was just a warm up
@Keith_Bauer Thanks for taking some time to play with it! I appreciate your thoughtful advice and I think it looks nice, I don’t know if I will bother tweaking the image because like I said, I’m not crazy about it so I wasnt planning on ever releasing it anyways, just wanted to see what kind of things people would point out about it. If I don’t end up getting anything nicer though, I may come back to it and see if I can polish this turd enough to disguise it
@Sam_Ison Glad to see you on here with the rest of the cool kids man! I can see your point, if I ever try to work this image again I will try that adjustment and see if it improves it. I’m pretty sure I will find some better stuff this weekend though so I’m not stressin. Thanks for the input dude!
@Dan_Kearl I can see your point man
@Igor_Doncov Agreed, forest scenes are the most difficult to shoot IMO, which is why we don’t see many great images of them. However, I don’t mind a little bit of chaos or mystery, since nature isn’t “perfect” in the way we usually think of it, and sometimes it’s nice to show off the messiness of the forest in an artistic and compositionally effective way. I always like to allow for a little bit of that in my images so it feels organic instead of too contrived and unnatural, taking away all mystery. I don’t mind the black knots either, since thats how 98% of aspens usually look. Anywho, thanks for the feedback my friend!
@Mattia_Oliviero Unfortunately I couldn’t really move around as much as aI would have liked, since I had to stand on the topmost point of a boulder to get this angle, otherwise I would have been below the red foliage too much. So I didn’t have any other choice of where to put myself. I shot it at 100mm or so from a fair distance in order to keep everything in focus as best I could since it was a pretty deep scene. Thanks for the feedback though, I definitely would have liked to have been able to scoot back a bit to make the tree smaller and make it less cluttered or have gotten closer to spread it out a bit. Oh well!
@Bill_Chambers I could play with that a bit for sure, it’s always tough knowing where to dial it in with these types of scenes, I like to keep them on the softer side while also having them pop nicely. Thanks for the feedback!