Sadly the setting sun was quite masked by clouds, so I had to push a bit the colours in Photoshop by switching to LAB mode and blending a copy of the layer in soft light mode. I also had to use a layer mask in order to bring out the hazy background with curves.
Statistics
Place: 198 out of 245 Avg (all users): 5.1389 Avg (commenters): 5.8000 Avg (participants): 5.1136 Avg (non-participants): 5.1786 Views since voting: 572 Views during voting: 5 Votes: 144 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
Hello from the Critique Club-
I liked that you took a little bit of a different take on the challenge with this, and added some other elements to spice things up than just the foliage. Having said that, I think that the elements you introduced are somewhat overbearing and somewhat take the show regarding the challenge topic. The scene itself is very nice, but it doesn’t really say foliage to me. As you noted in your comments, the sky is a bit hazy. I like the degree to which the other shore of the body of water is obscured by the haze, but it makes the sky less dynamic. The foliage you did have in your photo is pleasing, with a wide variety of colors and species, but doesn’t feel like your subject. To make the foliage more a focal point, I would consider bringing more of the plants in the lower left into the frame, lowering the perspective and maybe blurring the background village a bit. If foliage weren’t the focal point, I would find your choice of composition very successful.
It looks like the sun is still pretty high in the sky. If you waited a little longer, just until when the light turns gold, it would have painted the buildings to match the foliage and made the scene look more like autumn, IMO.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
