Autumn red and gold

Thanks to Andy Astbury for prompting me to think of this kind of subject (and the tip!) before heading out in the wet yesterday! Took this after a couple of people with dogs scared off what looked pretty likely to be the kingfisher that had been my target

Obviously I've placed the leaves and its a bit of a cliched composition, but it helped me as an exercise - I have some ideas for going about this kind of shot differently next time as a result. Taken in a regenerated local woodland that used to be an arboretum, so has some varied foliage types.

40D + 150mm macro, f22 at ISO 800 for 1/6, +0.67ev
Tripod and cable release
Small crop to balance up the edges and a tiny clone to hide the join in the main leaf's stem where I had to break it to fit it all in!

Suggestions and feedback more than welcome

These type of projects are challenging to get good results from and definately make us think harder. In this case the yellow leaf is a touch too overpowering and uniform in colour for me. A good effort though and a pity about the Kingfisher.

Rob

A stunning combination of colour here and one that really grabs your attention. I bet this would look good too with the yellow leaf a lot smaller in the frame and positioned at an angle on the bottom left third of the frame.

I can see the idea behind this one M but maybe the cenre leaf is just a bit too much ?
Could work just the other way though !!
Cheers
JR

Nice colourful picture, Ian. However I echo the comments on the yellow leaf

Sandra

Nice autumn image Magnus

Thanks for the comments. Agree with the size but couldn't get any higher above the setting on the tripod to make the yellow leaf smaller... and I'd hunted around for a small one too! Have another shot with it in the bottom corner and ummed a bit about posting that one but wasn't completely happy with the way it came out in the frame. But all food for thought