Landscape Photography

Hi Philipp! I'll start with what I like the most - colors and a subject. I really like those last rays of sun casting lots of warm tones into the sky, juxtapositioned with colder colors of the grass and a sky in the upper-right corner. Also the subject is very interesting - lonely tree blossoming when the spring kicked in full. Those two work very well together IMO, and you managed to capture them beautifully. The tonality is also quite nice - you have lots of shadows (but not a lot of blacks), quite a lot in dark mid-tones, and some highlights - all this creating soft and pleasing contrast, that enhances the serenity of the sunset.

The things I don't like that much are: composition-wise - I wish the tree had more separation from the grass. Right now the blurry (out of focus) grass blades) are "touching" your main subject within the frame. I just wish those two blades weren't overlaping, to create more separation and "breathing space". Also - I wish the tree was standing straight (maybe it isn't in nature - but here it creates an unease with it's angle to the horizontal grass). Usually - verticals and horizontals are perceived static. As diagonals are perceived dynamic. This shot is very peaceful to me, thus straight line of tree trunk would work better for me in this case. This could happen in field due to a lens distortion, but can be also easily changed during post.

As for post-processing: I can see a darkening gradient in the upper-right corner - that's obvious giveaway. If what you go for was a natural look, I would back the strength of it little bit or use softer gradient (eg. start drawing it slightly outside the frame and finish in the same spot as you did).

Hope you find some of those tips useful. And - overall - I really love the picture. You have nice and simple composition, very good color harmony, and great processing. Tweak the small things and the photo will be stellar! :)