Posted by JL Morris on November 29, 2007
Sycamore
Posted under Color, Critiqued, Flowers
You have a good idea here. I like the way you have set your focus to the subject, the leaves in the foreground, and let the background go out of focus. One of the fundamental rules, and I don’t like rules, is that combinations of three are more harmonies that two. I don’t know why but it seems to work. Here you almost have it, two and a half leaves.
I find the background to be distracting. The tones are very similar to the colors in the leaves. I would recommend cropping out as much background as possible and underexposing the image buy about two stops. This should separate the subject from the background.
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Cropped 
November 29th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I was going to the audiologist one day and got there a couple of minutes early. Of course I took out my camera to see what I might get, and the sun hit this leaf right in front of me. I shot this image and 30 sec. later it was gone.
The same leaf didn’t even look memorable without that shot of light across its surface.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I like your modigied version better than mine.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Ah, but it was your idea! I’d say it is a composite of thought and light. : )