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Description
I’m really out of my comfort zone with an image like this so any and all critiques are more than welcome. It was getting really dark and the Nikon D200’s ISO capabilities won’t let me go above 200. It was getting quite breezy and starting to rain. So catching a moment with little subject movement took quite a while.
Is the vignette too strong? I was really trying to make the center stand out.
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Any and all feedback welcome
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Nikonb D200, 35mm, 1 second @ f/16. ISO 200, CPL
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Michael, this is a wonderful image. I don’t think the vignetting is too much, but certainly you could back it down for another look see. I might try burning down the hot fern leaves a bit on the one upper side there. Or even maybe color them down very slightly with a dip from the darker leaves…
This would be a real noise nightmare for a run at the scene with film. A super find here…
What a nice, intimate landscape this is. I do think you could back off a tad on the vignette. I like the brighter dry fern leaves since they help my eye zero in to rest of the plant.
I never would have guessed that this isn’t within your comfort zone. It’s pretty darn close to perfect. If you forced me to offer a critique about the only thing I might suggest is to burn that lighter colored fern intruding on the bottom right edge or, if you’re not opposed to it, removing it altogether. The composition, light, colors; all perfect. Bravo!
I would not have thought this type of subject was outside of your comfort zone. I like how you have highlighted the central fern, it really does stand out, almost jumping out of the screen. My only nit, is the level of digital noise that the D200 left behind. I have recently been using the Denoise feature in ACR and it works really well at removing digital noise from a RAW file. That would be my only suggestion. It is a very striking photo.
Hi Mike,
This is a lovely intimate landscape with a wonderful color palette. The vignette works for me as it does highlight that central fern and makes it the star of the show. I could see using a little more noise control as some of the darker tones are getting a little noisy. My only other very minor suggestion would be to clone out the fern just sticking into the frame just left of center along the bottom edge. Your patience paid off with a beautiful image.
Michael: Good things come to those who wait so this is certainly aptly titled. I really like this as is. Hard to know where to crop with scenes like this but the proportion and location of the main fern carries the day. Nice find and a fine result. >=))>
Love this image. It’s right down my alley. It’s great seeing others doing these type of shots. I feel that what is best about this image is how this fern emerges from the darkness. Therefore I hesitate to suggest less vignette. One thing to try is a radial filter centered on the fern instead of the vignette and make the fern equally illuminated. But I’m not sure that would look natural. It might make things worse. I do like the light/dark effect very much.
I also like the fact that it’s slightly of center. There is more space above than below and more on the right than the left. I also like the secondary role the green fern is playing. Perhaps the green is just a tad too saturated? I might experiment with that a bit and compare the results. The green is the coolest thing in the image and offsets all the reds very nicely.
You’ve got to get out of your comfort zone more, because this is marvelous! I love the palette you’ve captured, and the way the yellowed fern emerges to be the star of the show is spendid.
If you played with that, I’d be tempted to just reduce it in the reds and greens, just to let them pop out a touch. The dark shadows with their mystery are a big part of the attraction here, so I wouldn’t reduce the vignette globally.
Very lovely autumnal hues with almost a Christmas palette of colours with those crimson red leaves and dark green ferns, kept nicely sombre in a gentle vignette. very pleasing.
