A bushfire swept through this small area of local bush about a month ago, melting some power lines in the process it was so hot. I noticed that after a tiny bit of rain we had, everything is coming back to life.
Nature reconstructing after devastation.
I changed the white balance when converting the NEF to be much cooler, as I used a warming gel on the flash when shooting which I decided didn't give me the effect I was after, I also bought greens & yellows up a bit as they were down from the warm gel.
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I can see how some thought you did selective desat here, the tree is scorched enough to give that effect. The dead coals in my woodstove have that same tone to them, if they haven't been reduced to ash. The vibrancy of the green does a lot for this shot.
Compositionally, I feel a lot more could have been done to draw the viewer in. It has a snapshot feel to it, with the crop being quite tight on the left, and the bulk of the tree forms a little bit of a dead end. Also the very high ISO, for a stationary object like a tree, is a little fast. FWIW I notice that I start to get noise at over 400 ISO, so you would want to keep it as low as possible. The aperture is fine, the shutter speed could probably have been slowed down quite a bit.
Artistically it does make a very strong statement, that of rebirth after such devastation, and the other areas of green in the shot give a sense of hope. Overall a pleasing shot but I feel you could have told a much stronger story.
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