Little leaf on a tree

[Guybrush330]

Shot at Leeds Castle with a Nikon D80.

I'm new, hello

[OldClicker]

First, welcome to PR.

I like the core of the photo – leaf, moss, trunk – but I think you have way too much sky and fuzzy tree branches. Try cropping it to a portrait bringing the sides way in and the top down a little until the leaf is very prominent in the photo.

TF

[LeeIs]

I agree with TF, a portrait crop would really work for this. I like the feeling I get from the overall image.

[MB1]

Great use of depth of field, too bad the light isn't at your back.

Maybe a touch of fill flash to brighten the leaf.

[Anbesol]

You were going for bokeh in this shot, and narrow DOF, but you shot 18mm f6.3, both will decrease the soft creamy pleasent bokeh. Shoot as telephoto as you can get while still filling the frame, and shoot wide open. If your lens is an aperture variable (if its the kit lens, it is), shoot at 24-30mm f4...

Looks like theres also some dark blue abberation along the tree lines, and it looks a stop overexposed. The horizon has a bright hot spot in the center, The bokeh has some sharp shapes which I am not all that thrilled about. Particularly on the tree where it looks superimposed and separate from the sky around it.

On the good side, great choice for focal point and angle, you also filled the frame very well. Is this a crop or as was shot?

[chaman]

Hope you dont mind. Trying to help, i think is a very nice image.

[shootme]

Great photo, I would have cropped from the left to a little before the leaf so you get the effect of 1/3 of trunk and leaf to the left and then the run off of the tree to the right. I agree it would have been nice to have some foreground light, else very nice. S