Ansel Adams?

[Thinking_Mommy]

What do you think? Erase the background leaf? Black and white it? Thanks guys!

[Hil85]

Stunting in color but I could look good in Black and White also.

[Thinking_Mommy]

How about this, is this better?


or maybe this?

[jiminyClickit]

Thinking_Mommy,

I'd find a different better-shaped leaf, or try a better angle. Cutting off part of it, while leaving so much open black space, well, why do that?

Second post is better (still, see above) and b/w is just not good for this kind of subject. If Golden Afternoon is a ten, this is a six. Not bad, just needs work.

[jdepould]

That's a difficult one, I think maybe an 8x10 crop with the leaf shifted frame right may be something worth trying. I'm not sure the versions with the background removed are better; you're losing a little bit of context.

From an exposure standpoint it's absolutely spot on, tones are great in both color and B&W.

I think this is one of those instances where it pays to take several different versions of the same subject.

[Tunedout]

I like the color one, maybe rotated & cropped alittle closer might help.

[wulf]

If Mr Adams was behind the camera, I suspect he would have the leaf in much sharper focus and less heavy black weighing the composition down.

How about keeping the colour but cropping to a square in order to lose the empty strip down the right?

Wulf

[hpebley3]

Here's my take on this one:


Involved a rotate and crop to make the leaf more prominent. Then some histogram adjustment to make the blacks blacker, whites whiter and more contrast overall. Then a High Pass Sharpening step to pop some of the details.

Hope this helps.

[sunsetter]

I think the change helps but I agree Ansel would find a better leaf.

[shannonje]

love hpebley's edits but i agree that the best solution is take a better leaf picture (ps i like the color)