This is from a pleasant little grassy meadow in Zion Canyon. I was attracted to the arrangement of this group of four trees and the large boulder. I think that the narrow strand of green grass (with less leaf coverage) stretching horizontally across the scene behind the boulder helps to provide some separation between the leaves on the trees and the leaves on the ground.
To comply with file size constraints, and considering the amount of detail in this image, compression isn’t doing me any favors here. So don’t look too closely.
Canon 5DII
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II
16mm, f/18, 1.0 second, ISO 100
Comments
18 commentsA fantastic composition. It draws me in and then gives me room to move around. I love the yellow everywhere, but I feel the contrast is off somehow. I think it might be excessive blue light working against the yellow. I can see it on the grass behind the boulder. I might try a curves layer and just pull down the middle of the blue curve alone and see if it softens the harshness a bit, not to much though as I would not want to lose the wonderful glow.
Great job filling the frame. The wide angle works beautifully here AND one of the great things about nature and images like this, lens distortion just doesn't matter! In fact I'd say it adds to the dynamics of the scene.
The only suggestion I have would be to burn down the highlights in general; the carpet of leaves is slightly bright, at least on my monitor. A minor point though. Nicely seen and well crafted.
Lon
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
Chris
John
I think the repost is a definite improvement. The edge is just taken off the highlights. I do think made a good observation and comment about a midtone adjustment as well. but at this point, we're just tweakin'... Thanks for taking the time to rework and post.
Lon