Gilded Leaf

[Amy Earl]

Taken on a frosty walk earlier this month. C&C welcome.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nicely isolated and the backlighting brings out the warm tones.

 

[AlanLichty]

Neat color glow and I like the detail in the leaf veins. This lens you used for this has a very pleasing bokeh.

 

[Amy Earl]

Nicely isolated and the backlighting brings out the warm tones.

Thanks!

Neat color glow and I like the detail in the leaf veins. This lens you used for this has a very pleasing bokeh.

Thanks. The sun was hitting this little beech leaf just right. This was the Canon 24-105mm. I love it for these kinds of close-ups, it always delivers!

 

[Amy Earl]

Got this one too:

 

[sweetgrass]

Beautiful image Amy!

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very well isolated and the leaf has great pop. I like the first best.

 

[JimFox]

Beautiful lighting and positioning Amy! Way to go on this.

I like #1 the best. What hurts that 2nd one is that OOF branch angling behind the leaf. In #1 you don't have that, so there is nothing to pull the eye away from the leaf.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Good work on both. I prefer #2 if they were mine I'd put some work into it: in ACR I would put some sharpening, clarity, and texture on the leaf, then paint another adjustment on the rest and subtract 100 sharpness, add some noise reduction, and take away clarity and texture. I often duplicate such an adjustment to blur the background even more. When open in PS I'd then work on getting rid of that offending branch Jim pointed out using auto-fill. A bit of a crop, loosing the brighter area in the bottom right corner might also strengthen it.

 

[Amy Earl]

Thanks all!

@Jim Dockery - thanks for the suggestions for #2. I like that idea and will try exactly that when I find a free minute.

 

[Alisa]

Beautiful light!!