I very much am trying to be more mindful of complimentary colors when out making images. In this one, I included a lot of Red and Green for that very reason, so when this week’s theme was announced I was happy to look for some examples in my library!
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Nothing really specifically. I’m pretty happy with this one as-is.
Superb image of complimentary colors Matt! You’ve got everything from Green as can be all the way to crimson red in one small patch of leaves. I also love the drops of beaded water sitting on top of the leaves. I’m being really nit picky here but the almost white leaf at the very bottom of the frame grabs my eye. I would burn that down and maybe saturate so it’s more yellow. The other one the yellow an green leaves poking in on the right side of the image. A small crop should take care of both of those incredibly small issues. Well seen and composed.
Nice! I especially like the complementary colors both within the leaves and between them. I’m with David on that on lighter leaf at the bottom - it sort of grabs the eye.
Matt, this is a great collection of leaves and water. I’m especially attracted to how many individual leaf’s veins stand out as alternate in color to the surrounding leaf and how those colors change from leaf to leaf. Removing the bluish tone from that leaf at the bottom lets it fit into the color scheme better.
This is a beauty, Matt! The only tiny thing that catches my eye is the lighter leaf on the left edge. Since it is near the edge and is the brightest leaf in the scene, I might consider darkening it just a tad, even though I know it was naturally lighter since it was upside down.
Please let me also use the Swedish word smorgasbord regarding the colors. The rework is just great! One idea could be, if possible, to move the framing of the leaves to the left to get all of the up-side-down leaf at the left border into the image, having one leaf that is the opposite to (most of) the others.