Was touring around Indiana with old friends a couple of weeks ago but not much was happening color-wise. Had a wonderful time roaming around the hardwood forests, though! It's amazing how you'll be in a real forest and 100 yards away is the biggest cornfield you ever saw. We managed to see some nice covered bridges, too. The only timing when we could do the trip coincided with the Parke County covered bridge festival and we were expecting lots of people getting in the way of pictures, but they had all been sucked into several huge flea markets, swallowed up like into black holes! We encountered very few people at the bridges and virtually none in the state park forests.
Canon 5D3 and 24-70 -- almost exclusively what I used for scenics. Simplify and Gaussian blur for the edges (as a masked smart object layer so I could tweak both the mask and the amount of blur after seeing it over the base image).
Looks like Fall color to me. I often prefer the transition into color more than when the leaves are reaching their peak. You shot this with a great diagonal. I like the distribution of the three main trees, too, especially with that curved one. Nice job drawing attention to them with the vignette blur.
I love the one orange tree as a nice focal point, overlapped by that one bright birch, and the clear crisp sky. I would be interested in seeing a version without the Gaussian blur too.
I really like the blurred version and the way Simplify merges some of the details into small color blocks that for me, adds impact to the overall image. The curved white birch framing the right side is a great & unique addition to contrast with the other two straight trees. Too funny about flea markets as big black holes!!
Fall-ish color in Indiana
