Posted by Ray Laurence on January 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM
This image was captured from a forest road leading to the Lewis River in Washington State near Woodland. It was captured at ISO 200, f/13 @ 1/25 of a second at 24mm.
Posted by David Bostock on January 18, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Hey Raymond, welcome to the PNWNP and NPN. Thought I'd make a couple of comments on your image. I like the colors and depth. The stream coming in from the left corner works well. In terms of composition, I'd suggest cropping to remove the near tree in the upper right as it doesn't seem to add to the overall scene. This is a very wide dynamic range scene and it's difficult to get our cameras to record shadow and highlights accurately. In this case, the shadows look good, but the clouds look just a bit blown out...
Nature scenes in our PNW are never easy due to all the chaos, however I think you've got the start of a good image here. I think a bit of post-processing work would dress it up nicely.
A very pleasing scene, Raymond. I agree with David's suggestions and will add that it looks to me like the greens are "amped up" a bit even for the PNW. A little more processing and you've got something darn good.
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2 repliesNature scenes in our PNW are never easy due to all the chaos, however I think you've got the start of a good image here. I think a bit of post-processing work would dress it up nicely.
Cheers,
David
Welcome to NPN.