Larch tree

I like larches and I like larches in autumn colour even more. What draw me to take this photo is contrast between cold and warm colour.

17-40, digital, tripod

Cheers,
Marko

I have seen this one of yours on film I think, wonderful comparisons here, perhaps clone out the little grasses in the bottom right? Very nice.

Hi Marko - certainly achieved what you set out to do here - very nice

Perhaps a little fiddling around as David suggests might be in order, and I might be tempted to have a play with the red channel saturation and brightness to bring out a bit more color in the larch.

Me like very nice scene. It's a shame Holland is so flat. I wish for mountains here.
Wonderful colours.
Edwin Kats

Is that mountain side really blue? That's a great Larch MArko...whatever that is

Beautiful image and contrast of colours. I would never have guessed this taken on the 17-40 - looks like its taken with a much longer lens. Tristan

Thanks for coments folks!
Dave, you probably did. I took (almost) the same composition on LF last year. I'll think about those grass blades, thanks.
Graeme, I try to emulate response to sky lit shadows of Provia 100F, but probably overdid it
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Tristan, 1DS doesn't show exact focal length in its meta data, but my guess is it was around 30-35 mm. Why do you have impression of longer lens?

Cheers,
Marko

I thought the same as Tristan actually, Its probably because the shot feels compressed against the background, I guess the tree is right up against the rock?

As Dave says - the perspective feels compressed or flatten just as I would expect from a longer focal length. Not that it matters what focal length it is. It may be my monitor that is too light but I just tried darkening it a little to show more detail in the tree and I think I like the extra colour it adds to the tree.

Ah yes, perspective. As Dave guessed, this tree is quite close to that rocky wall (just enough for rock to be distinctively out of focus), and that's where effect is coming from. On this (uncalibrated) monitor, your version looks better Tristan, especially tree itself. I have to look at it at my main monitor later on. I'll try to play with it to see, what I can get out of it.

Cheers,
Marko

Unfortunately the repost has it for me. Before I scrolled down this far I was going to comment on the brightness of the tree and the loss of colour. You've got great vision Marko - the colours work superbly well. Personally, I would have been tempted to pull back to include more of the rock face and reveal the comparative scale of the scene. I can't tell whether this is a big tree and small cliff or vice versa. Really like this though.