One last dead leaf clinging to its branch. Long zoom and wide aperture used to through background branches out of focus. A little color added back with Curves adjustments.
-Handheld, Av mode
-Made mask for leaf in RGB Curve adjustment layer
-Duplicated mask for Blue/Yellow Curve adjustment layer
-Duplicated mask for Red Curve adjustment layer
-Resize
-Crop a tiny bit from top and bottom
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 183KB
Resized original:
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Cool isolation of the leaf. I think it would have been a better shot if you were closer... fill the shot a little more with the leaf.. yet still show its the only one.. all of the limbs/twigs just get a little busy in my opinion.
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