The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
Taken the same session I took the mushrooms of my last post. This pair of leaves was nice enough to have a parallel angle that just barely avoided the worst of the oak tree background, which is very messy.
Specific Feedback
There was a portion of the trunk of the tree that was very dark along the right edge and some of the brighter lichen covered branches in the background were very bright. I blurred the background a touch with Field blur but it still needed taming, so I painted over parts of it with a low opacity medium green that I picked up out of the composition. The shadows were very dark on the inside of the two shaded leaf lobes, so I brought shadows up quite a bit. Did I succeed in taming the background and shadows?
Technical Details
Sony A7Riv, FE70-200 f/4 Macro @ 127 mm, tripod, f/13, 1/200, iso 500. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 6376x5728. Taken at 1:04 PM on November 23rd.
More lovely leaves! These look sturdy and like they’ll never fall off, but of course they will. I wish you’d had a polarizer on for this to bring up more texture and color. My polarizer used to live on one lens, and maybe I should go back to that. The bg looks good and I wouldn’t know that you had to massage the blur filter. Cool frame, too, being just that small line inside. I never know how to do that kind of thing.
@Kris_Smith Since I think you have the TK panel, it’s a breeze. I create an empty layer on top, use the rectangular marque tool to put the outline I want, pick a color from the frame that seems appropriate, and then use the TK STROKE command and play with the width and opacity settings. If you want it to go behind the stem, you can either erase it there or I almost always put my subject on a separate layer above the background and any cleanup layer, so I can just slip the stroke layer in there.
Hope that makes sense. If not, I can add some screen shots.
