Critique my photo: The red forest

[vail3r]

Iv'e not had chance to go out with my camera recently so I have been sat playing around in Lightroom with some of my old photo's and created this:


The red forest by matthewpaulgrainger, on Flickr

Original here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewgrainger/12751752175/

Id like to turn the rest of the leaves at the bottom right red but not sure how, any ideas how I could do it?

 

[DizzleDazzle]

I really like the colours here but am not a fan of wonky images, so IMO it could use a good straightening!

 

[Hyburnate]

I really like the colours here but am not a fan of wonky images, so IMO it could use a good straightening!

I agree, I think this image would be so much better with a ND filter to make the water smooth.

 

[James J]

Clarity looks a little pushed for my liking. I don't mind the composition though.

 

[Mr.Stu]

It looks over sharpened.

 

[EpicCarnage]

I personally like the flow of the image and would't take a straight picture. I feel this is reflective to the shape of the banks the streams follow....

 

[theheyes]

Don't mind the wonkiness at all, I think it suits. However I agree it does look a bit oversharpened/contrasty.

I would have chosen a larger aperture to give the picture a better sense of depth, personally.

 

[D.P.]

Looks oversharpened. Also a CPL would have been a good idea to reduced the reflctions in the water. As it is the water is too bright. I wouldn't worry about the green leaves bottom right but I would in general crop much more of the bottom off, it disrupts some of the lines and draws too much focus to an uninteresting foreground.

 

[theheyes]

Agree about the foreground being neither here nor there. I think a square crop of the top half of the frame would look good.

 

[Steve M]

Too sharp. Don't like the angle.

 

[vail3r]

Thanks for the comments everyone

This was a quick passing photo I took when i'n the park taking photo's of my nephew and had no tripod, if you look at the original it's quite a poor photo to start with but personally I really like the composition just minus the bits at the bottom of the image that are distracting.

If the weather is ok at weekend I think I might go and have another go with my tripod to see if I can improve it

Here is a square crop to get rid of the bottom.


square by matthewpaulgrainger, on Flickr

 

[englishpremier]

It looks over sharpened.

Looks like the water needs to masked off

 

[Brabbinho]

I really like the colours in the top half of the photo, but the processing on the water doesn't work for me.