colors of change.

[Vet2088]

ok havnt posted a thread in awhile. moved and didnt have my camera for a month or so.
but umm this leaf was takin off of a neighbors tree ( of course lol ) and all i did was put it on the sidewalk and take some photos. so here is one of the two shots i kept.
hope you enjoy it. ( photo is pp )


oh almost forgot.
1. are the shadows on the right of the leaf to distracting?
2. does the sidewalk make a bad background?

thats pretty much all i have to ask. anything else u guys find. be more than happy to be harsh and let me know what you would change/fix. it will only make me better.





Camera - nikon d60
f stop - f/8
exp. time - 1/200 sec.
iso - ISO-100
focal length - 30 mm
max aperture - 4.4
flash - none

[elora.daphne]

I think the shadow is just a bit too harsh in this, too dark and too distracting. I figure it was a sunny day, I would have tried to diffuse the light, maybe make it a bit softer. Other than that the sidewalk is fine and the leaf is a nice bright reddish colour which makes me feel good

[wulf]

I think the sidewalk makes a pretty good background - textured but in a neutral colour. That is a good backgroup to the beauty of the leaf colours.

However, I do think the shadows are too harsh and I also think the depth of field is too narrow. Dropping off at the back is fine and a bit of blur along the bottom edge is quite natural looking. However, you have the bottom third of the picture, including a lot of the leaf, visibly fuzzy.

You could try cropping to more of a letterbox format - that also reduces the amount of heavy shadow and deals with that, too.

Wulf

[Vet2088]

thank you guys for the comments and critique. it was a sunny day. and i figured the shadows were to harsh. not really sure why the bottom part of the picture is blurry, and yet the leaf somewhat blurry. i think it could be the fact that i had the stock lens on. but i could be wrong. but yet again. i appreciate you guys telling me what was wrong and or could be fixed. so thank you.

[wulf]

The bottom part of the picture is blurry because of the depth of field effect - a combination of aperture and focal length which determines how a wide a zone seems reasonably in focus. You are pretty close to your subject, at which point depth of field starts to become very narrow (which can be great... but which can also be distracting).

Wulf