Frosted Leaves at Ding Darling NWR

[Garry Gibson]

I was at Ding Darling this week and there were more tourists than birds so
I scouted around for something to shoot and found a tree that the frost
had working on pretty good. Nice colors, something we don't see here that often.

I'm not crazy about that dead branch in the left corner but I didn't see an easy
way to crop it or clone it out so I left it.

Mark 1 DSII 24-105L at 47MM. F5.6 at 1/100 ISO 400.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2782/4294045191_e6af4221e6_o.jpg

[Dave Mills]

Hi Gary,Nice color and exposure. A few things...It would be beneficial for us in critiquing if you post your shooting specs along with your image. I don't consider this a landscape image but more of a macro or closeup image.
I feel the image would be improved without the blurred yellow leaves in the backround and I would crop about 1/3 of the backround off the right....

[Garry Gibson]

Thanks Dave, you are probably right, I didn't really think of this as a macro
but it was a closeup for sure.

I'll work on the changes you suggested. Thanks for the helpful comments.

Garry

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Gary,
I'd imagine rare indeed for your neck of the woods! I agree with Dave's recommendations and will add that more seperation in the main focal leaves would go a long way to improving this compositionally. I like that you looked for other interests during low action times......keep up the thinking process.

[Robert Amoruso]

Garry,

One thing to try in such instances is to thown something on the ground in the BG. I use a lightweight sheet. Similar thing the hummingbird photographers do.