autumn colors

I took this shot in the mountains. The light was very dramatic: late afternoon sun and clouds rolling out, after a rainstorm. The moment was extraordinary but I'm not sure I captured it well. C&C welcome. Thanks. Robert

i really like this image Robert, i love the color you have captured in this picture.
i find the light at the top is a little to bright and distracts my eye from the over all image but great work none the less =)

Ahh, I've seen many a scene like this and tried to capture it but have not been able to to my liking. I think you have done better than me with this one. The bright light at the top does not bother me as it lends to a ethereal sort of feel. I think I would lighten and fade the dark band though to stop it from looking like a stripe. Just dodge it on shadow setting and blend it out.
The thing about this that I feel prevents it from being really great is the placement of the bench on the "set". It is too close to the tree and fence and almost winds up blending in with them. If you could have moved the bench out further into the lawn in the fg and separated the tree and fence from it. . .given it more room and space to really be the subject and focus. Isolate it more, I think that would have really made this one great.
Still, it is pleasing.

I like what you have here but I want this to be just the left edge of a landscape format image. In other words I want to see a lot more to the right of this image.

I don't know if there is anything good in front of the bench, I just want there to be.

I like it, but think that maybe you should have shown more sky and a little less foreground (not clipping off the bench though) to concentrate on the real subject - the sky.

It's hard to capture what we see sometimes. Even playing with the obvious settings - exposure, balance between aperture and shutter, maybe even a neutral density filter - can't always force your sensor or film to capture what you know was there..

G