Elm leaves in Columbia, CA
I liked the golden leaves with the two red ones peeking through the pattern.
Any thoughts on this one are welcome and will be appreciated.
Nikon D-7100
Nikkor 18-140 mm @105 mm
f-16 @ 1/50 s
ISO 400
PSCC 2025
Cropped from the left a bit.
-P
Ooh! I like this a lot Preston.
The red leaves do make a statement and really jump out, but what I like even more and I think needs to be wiggled out are the subtle shadows at play in among the layers of the leaves. If you can bring those shadows out more I think it will give this photo a 3D effect that will just take this to the next level.
I really like this shot Preston. The two red leaves are perfectly situated and add a nice touch of color contrast to the scene. My only suggestion would be to increase the saturation of the yellow leaves, but don’t go too far with it.
This is very pleasing on the eye. I like both the suggestions above (perhaps increasing the shadows will make raising the saturation unnecessary) - but only a very little bit. It’s a very “together” composition.
Preston, this is a fine find (quasi pun intended). I’m thoroughly enjoying all the details in the veins and leaf edges. I do wonder how a subtle overall brightening (or maybe a bit more contrast, especially on the lighter areas) would look.
A fine find indeed!! Interesting ideas above, worth a try for an extra touch of wonderful. With very monochromatic images like this, playing with the WB in the raw file will often give a surprising punch.
Preston: Frame filling fantastic. I’m with @Diane_Miller on tweaking the WB a bit. Boosted this about 15 points with the Camera Raw filter. Back to you. >=))>
Thanks for your comments, everyone! @Bill_Fach Bill, I actually tweaked the color balance in PS to make it a little less yellow and red after I imported it from ACR because it seemed to be too orange. I appreciate your rework.
-P
A color tweak after importing can be good but tweaking the white balance in the raw file gives a subtlety that can’t be reproduced after the file has been rasterized (think: set in concrete), because of the much larger color space available in the raw file. And it gives even more obvious differences the more monochromatic the capture is. And of course all this rests on the quality of the monitor, but that’s not nearly the issue it was back in the last century.
Hi Preston,
This is wonderful. The placement of the two red leaves is perfect and contrasts beautifully with the bed of yellow elm leaves. I am not trying to muddy the waters for you, but here is another suggestion. The yellows looked just a little underexposed; at least to me; so I raised the exposure by .5 stop. Just my opinion of course. Very nicely done.
