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Description
I just took this a couple of days ago at Zion. The bounce light was perfect on these maple leaves but I had a devil of a time coming up with a composition. Either the bare sand was poorly located or the rocks weren’t arranged right. Finally I just went for something and hoped for the best.
Specific Feedback
I’m wondering if this is too chaotic. What do you think? It’s a loosely put together composition with a lot going on but I felt there was some cohesion to all this. I suppose I could add a vignette to keep the eye from the edges.
Technical Details
GFX50R, 45-100mm, f/11, focus stacked
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Igor, your comp was a good choice. The interesting leaves, positions, and colours are broken up and contrasted nicely by the old wood and sticks.
A lovely fall image!
Igor, I do not see this as chaotic. The wood offers some nice visual flow and the featured leaves have a nice balance. I also like the texture and layering effect. Nice intimate landscape that could be anywhere - even in one’s back yard, eh.
This makes me think of some of Eliot Porter’s images.
I like this one, Igor. The diagonal piece of wood gives it some zip. The colors are very pleasant and believable. The pale yellow leaves seem to float atop the darker background. It’s hard to find a composition in such a scene but I like the one you found.
I noticed that most of the visual interest is in the right half of your shot. I tried cropping out the left half and made a few other tweaks. It works but I miss the branches in the lower left of the original. On balance, I think your composition is better.
I enjoy a nice forest floor shot and this has some engaging colors. The two cross angle twigs interrupt the overall flow though. But I still like it quite a bit. I am also curious about the “mistake”.
Yes, the scene is somewhat chaotic but your composition has given enough order for the image to work very well. The sticks make up a general structure and the most important leaves are in some way connected to the lines that the sticks make up. I also like the balanced color scheme of the image very much. For me the image works best without a vignette since the immediate centre of the image maybe is not the most interesting part of the image.
Not for me; I really like the flow. Fallen leaves are beautiful to me. When I’m out walking this time of year I’m amazed at how beautiful the carpet is, and I think the downed wood sets this apart.
All observers are interested in the composition also for your request but I see only colors, beautiful autumn colors. You are a master for color shades and not only for this of course. Beautiful photo once more.
I envy you, in Italy the colored autumn trees are gone, the leaves dry and fall without taking nice colors, brown and crumpled.
Hello, Igor,
as usual we have a beautiful photo here, not just a record.
I think the composition is careful enough, and not being there to see what would be on the other side it’s very difficult to judge where we put the border…
For me the photo is in the top half, the LLC is a little out of the orchestra.
In any case, I insist that it’s a beautiful photo, very well executed and edited as usual.
That’s mostly due to the sensor I believe. The Fujifilm sensor is not subtle. When I compare my previous work with the Nikon D810 I can really see the difference. It’s why I switched. But now I often miss the quality of the old Nikon. Fujifilm gives you many profiles but I can’t seem to give the old look when I want it.
Regarding this image - I’m really not that proud of it. For many reasons.
This is a perfectly composed and processed image, Igor. I love that most of the leaves are subdued in color but a couple of them have extra “pop”. It is a chaotic scene but you’ve made sense of it all with your composition. Wonderful!
Glad you noticed that. The pop was not processed to be that way. Some leaves had, indeed, greater presence than others. It was a challenge to arrange these dominant leaves in the frame so there was visual weight distributed across the canvas.
Igor: I’m late to this party but I like this a lot. The branches hold everything together for me and the color palette is marvelous. Well seen, composed, processed and presented. >=))>
