This shot was in Interlaken-Switzerland, it was my first trip outside Saudi Arabia and I really wasn't used to Europe weather, it was very cold. I stayed two days in interlaken. The first day I saw this place in the middle of the day and I visualize the picture in my mind and I planend to come In the Next morning before sunrise and I did and I came to the place two hours befor sunrise but there was a fog all of the day. In the following morning I have to travel to another city to catch up the plane but come back again and stay until the sunrise came and bring some nice colour to the sky. and I catched the plane in the last moment.
The big Picture is much sharper and better,
I hope you like it and I really appreciate your comments.
Canon 5D mark II | Canon 17-40 | GND 0.6 | F22 | iso 50 | 6 sec
Comments
9 commentsI like this photo. It appealed to me right away. I think there is great color harmony and the leaf is was what brings that. Even though there is no real reference for where the leaf might have come from, it makes this image. This was well conceived and executed.
About the leaf--i agree that it looks out of place or too 'arranged' (i also agree that other photographers are more likely to notice this!) I think one way to mitigate this would have been to move the leaf forward a bit higher up, so that it was lying at an angle, pointing towards the distant mountain rather than straight up towards the sky. That way, it would look more like the leaf had fallen on the rock, rather than being placed there as in a portraiture.
The contrast of the leaf color and the rest of the seen made a great impact! Well done.
The image does beg the question of whether or not the photographer placed the leaf there. However, for me, I could care less. The image is all that matters. And its a good one.