Our Golden Years

[AndrewMcD]

Weathered and broken but still vital. The stories this tree might tell.
C&C always welcome as learning from the experience and eye of others is the point of the exercise.
Thanks,
Andrew

[Clive Kirby]

I think if you had lifted your camera up and lost a lot of the foreground and got more of the subject it would have concentrated the viewer on the tree. Nice subject with great colours though and a well taken image.
regards
Clive

[Tony M]

Hi Andrew,

The colours are nice. Autumn is a great time for landscape photography.

I see how you're trying to compose the image, showing grass in the foreground. Yet somehow it doesn't quite work; perhaps becaues of the crop to the left.

I would also like to see more definition in the leaves; perhaps you can increase the Clarity in LR to bring them out.

Tony

[GrahamS]

Andrew, that tree makes a great autumn subject, but I have two crits: The bunch of grass centre foreground is distracting and as Clive has said, a higher perspective may have been better, and to make autumn colours pop you could try increasing the vibrancy and/or saturation.

[Dusty]

Andrew I would have used a wide angle lens to get all of the tree in and maybe a stop less in exposure either using your aperture or ss. It needs more contrast in the image but keep practising and you will get there.
Dave.

[rpcrowe]

I can see what you were seeking in this image... However, I wonder what the results would have been if you shot at a different time of day (earlier or later) and used a polarizing filter to help darken the sky and increase the saturation in the leaves?

[AndrewMcD]

Thank you all for the comments. The good news is that the tree is still there and hopefully the leaves will remain a few days longer allowing another effort with the advice you all have provided.
Andrew

[Masq]

Nice shot, really love this time of year.
Im my place we have autumn like this