Woodland photography is so damn difficult!! I believe this to be so because you need to have the perfect recipe, light, character/interesting subject and flow or focal point.
I liked these naturally bending trees coming up from the forrest floor and wanted to showcase them. In post i added well a lot of stuff but wanted to blur the foreground to make you go right for the trees. The shot may have worked better with a 35mm focal length and i will try this again soon. The first shot is the raw file and the second is the edit.
What would you change?
Woodland photography
I like your image and the general visual slope it has, I think it needs some more interesting light though. And I agree about natural photography being hard. Ive gone to some places 3 times in a row to capture what I considered to be the "correct lighting" and still missed the mark.
unfortunately this was on a rainy day and i don't like making fake light beams ill definitely try it again on another day if at first you don't succeed ...blah blah blah ...you know the rest lol
I’m on my phone, so it’s hard to say for sure. However, based on what I can see, I’d lose the rock in the foreground for a few reasons.
First, the distortion on it is a little strong.
Second, it doesn’t seem super sharp (it seems like it’s been softened even more in post - that’s a style choice, so I won’t really comment on that.)
Finally, it seems to be fighting the plant for domination of the foreground. Layers are OK, but sometimes less it more.
Like I said, I’m on my phone, so these could change once I’m on my computer. Overall, I do like the light and atmosphere.
no i think you made valid points i was watching James Popsys and he mentioned trying to blur foreground as to draw attention to a more detailed subject in the scene not sure how i feel about it to be honest