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local woods after rain

Started Jul 5, 2015 | Photos thread
KL Matt Veteran Member • Posts: 5,999
Re: local woods after rain
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Hi Kevin,

Nice shot! The first thing I thought was wow, gorgeous light. You probably didn't even need to process this very much. Seeing the light is the biggest part of photography IMO, and you've done that well here.

I like that the foreground trees are in shadow, but no so extreme that they are simply black -- the light shining through the foreground trees upper right gives them a nice transluscent and vivid green.

What I would do different is the composition. The large tree trunks in the middle and right third of the image are big dark areas that the eye wants to look past, look into the light. But the brightest light in the frame is in a strange position, down to the lower left some how. Instead of framing that beautiful light and drawing attention to it, those trees seem to be obstructing our view. I would have put the large dark tree in the middle of the frame off center and probably cut off one of the two on the right (used it more as a framing device and less as a central foreground element) here. I also probably would have used portrait orientation to catch more of that gorgeous transluscence of the sunlight penetrating those leaves, also making it easier for me to use the tree trunks as framelines left and right instead of bars screening our view into the light.

Hope that helps,

Matt

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