Red on water

[LightandShadow]

I’m interested in feedback, especially the background behind the main subject.

The brightly colored leaves are backlit and I needed separation from the trees in the background. In LR, I chose the branches and leaves as an “object”, inverted the selection and darkened the background. Then re-selected the “object” and brightened it.

[Robert Apple]

The Background is fine with me , I would add a bit more to the red with a point color adjustment in the color mixer and bump the reds luminance up a bit as well as the saturation for a stronger separation,  and in this quick example I did crop just enough off the top to remove the sky which was a bit of an eye snag. Its a subtle change which stands out more full size.

[LightandShadow]

Thanks for these recommendations. I have had a hard time with the image. The backlighting combined with the harshness of the mid-day light makes getting it all balanced tough for me.

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

I think having those almost complementary colours really makes this image. I think Robert’s changes worked well too. Well done..

[Anne Hornsby]

What I really like about this image is the feeling of a rich, dappled red color from the sun.  So to emphasize that, I cropped in from the left because that cuts out oranges and seems to help focus on the darker reds.  Like Robert, I also cropped a bit off the top, and then used the photoshop dodge tool to lighten the reds in certain places.   

[LightandShadow]

Thanks for the feedback. Changes have been made.

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