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How about some discussion about this one - composition, exposure, light, color, detail etc.

I didn't keep the RAW file but I do have the 40mb TIFF (240 ppi) from which this small image was derived here: http://www.fototime.com/FA30E6144F0128F/orig.tif if anyone would like to re-work it.

Unfortunately I believe the EXIF data was lost when I duplicated the original in Photoshop. I'm not so careless with all of my images but I felt this one was destined for personal use only.

I can recall that I used a Canon 1D MKII with a Canon f2.8 L 24-70 mm wide angle zoom and subsequently cropped the capture. It was very overcast, had rained a little earlier and was toward the end of the day - not the best light in other words. I probably boosted the ISO to the 200-400 range and still had to open up the lens to maybe 4.5 or so??

Given the circumstances, there are a number of issues of which I am aware and there are some positives too. I'm not invested in defending it, but rather more interested in discussing it. Thanks!

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Buddy,

Living in the west, Aspens are my favorite tree. Not only do they turn beautiful colors but they quake in the wind.

My feeling about the color and lighting, and this may be just me, is that the image you posted had some real potential for showing off the autumn color but because of the overcast light, that potential had to be brought out in PP. Specifically, I felt the image needed the saturation and contrast to be pumped up. I also felt that there was still a lot of detail that had not been developed with some judicious sharpening.

As far as composition goes, it really didn't work for me. As Roman so often points out, you really need to walk the scene. I don't see a real anchor point or focus. I can't help thinking that if you had moved 3 steps to the left and shot the scene longer with more of the road it would have anchored the scene with the road and also given it some direction. I tried to do some of this by cropping in the image in more of a 3:2 format which cuts off some of the trees but gives the road more prominence. Not sure it really works though.

Anyway here is a version of the scene the way I would have liked to have seen it. I'm not necessarily going for reality here, but more what I would have liked to have seen.

Hope this is constructive.

Geo