I used reduce noise. I used levels to lighten this up and up the contrast, then selective color and hue/sat to bring out the red. Then curves for a more precise contrast adjustment. Then resize. Then USM.
===post challenge===
I promise you, those are naturally occurring water drops.
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being a traditionalist, I would crop some from the top for more impact. But that notwithstanding, it is a nice moody image. On a second thought, the other thing which takes away from it for me is the water drops. I can't look at water drops anymore :)
Wow. Hard to believe this scored a 4 considering other images in the challenge. And I love the crop, or lack of it - it seems so final, which I thought, going by the title, was the point. For what its worth, I gave you a seven. But I only did one pass and gave up after 20% (disenchantment) so 7 was my highest score for the challenge. Wonderfully seen and captured.
I saw your post in the posthumous thread... I gave you a five, and after further review, maybe you should have had a 6... I do like this shot, but when it comes to "Red" it doesn't really say anything to me... If the theme were Autumn, or Rain, I think you would've done much better.
Standing on its own though, outside of the challenge I think it works well!
There is something I like in this photo but the composition is a bit of, the main leaf too centered, red very subtle but I guess there is enough of it...interesting but it could be way better.
Well, I guess there's red under all that water, but couldn't you have found some really red leaves? Some autumn leaves are the most amazing, rich red; these have a few red lines running through them.
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