Fall Foliage, Olney Pond

From the park road in Lincoln Woods State Park. It took me two walks around the park before the light was right and thankfully the water was still in this little corner of Olney Pond. It's been a great autumn here although it's been windy most mornings so I was lucky to get this reflection, the rest of the pond had wind ripples on it. Canon30D, 24-105L, CP filter. The only adjustments in LR2 and Photoshop were to reduce the blue saturation in the sky and the pond.

Hali, this year's excellent autumn color certainly shows through well in this photo. The direct, hard light brings out detail but also makes contrast tougher to deal with. As I have discovered, it often pays to use a little negative exposure compensation on scenes like this to keep the highlights from getting too bright.

Hopefully there will be some color left when the rain comes - which makes for some great photo ops too!

Hi Hali,

It is a beautiful scene and a great reflection under a vivid blue sky. The nit I have is the same as Jim's above...the light is harsh, and the image perhaps slightly overexposed...yielding a bit too strong a contrast for my taste. If you get the chance to reshoot it, I'd turn down the exposure a half a stop.

Thank you both, Unfortunately with the wind that came through this weekend it blew much of the leaves off the trees so I won't get a chance to reshoot it this year. I hadn't thought about underexposing it but I knew the image was a bit harsh and had issues. Hopefully I'll remember to do that next year (and hope that autumn is as nice as this years)

Beautiful colors and excellent comp.