(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
Canon M50, 250mm, ISO 100, f/11, 1/20 (tripod)
Douglas, this is a very hard composition and as a result, I often pass up on the opportunity like this. You have captured a very nice light here. I think the composition is balanced. You mention about focus/sharpness, I will say that at this size, the sharpness looks good to me. If you have a 1:1 crop of a section of the image, it would be more telling.
Douglas, the light and warm colors here are very nice, and that dominant leafy tree makes for a very engaging subject. To me eye this does look slightly soft. It might have been due to some wind, i see you shot at ISO 100, if there was wind a faster shutter speed might have helped. I’m okay with the foreground grasses being soft, i just wish the yellow tree was slightly sharper. To me the subject here is the yellow tree, and not the bare tree to the left. If this were me shooting this scene, I would have moved to the right, and excluded the bare tree from the shot, thus placing more emphasis on the leafy tree. As presented, i think the two trees compete with each other for attention. I think you could also crop about half of the sky away, to eliminate negative space.
Including the sky significantly takes away from the midground interest. I think you could go in with a much heavier crop, focusing on the interplay and relationship between the trees.
This is what I would suggest
Thanks for all the feedback, definitely taking a lot away from the comments. I appreciate the time folks take to provide comments to a beginner like me!
