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Taken with D70 and Kit Lens.

this is my first try at Forest Photography. i think the difficulty lies in creating the feeling and being creative in terms of exposure and composition. please tell me what you think is the way to go and what can be improved. Thanks.

cheers,

Arthur

Arthur - I really do like this pic - the exposure would IMO be spot on. The only thing I would do is crop out slightly on the left hand side to remove the tree trunk

Agree with cropping out the trunk on the left hand side. Maybe use a smaller aperture like maybe f11 or more so the sun doesn't look like a huge splotch...unless you already did so

What was the Exif?

Nonetheless, great photo Arthur. Keep it up.

great photo, my 2cents..

there appears to be a bright green glow at just below of centre, is that lens flare?? its distracting because its not a circular flare.

and also not very misty?

The top half of the photo looks overexposed to me, lots of blown highlights, but that might be my monitor...
If you shot in RAW, then you might want to combine two images at different exposures to improve it... The lower half of the photo is well exposed...

You might also want to clone out the bright green lens flarein the lower middle of the shot... I don't think that it enhances the photo...

Like all I like it arthur, though not too keen on the lens flare

When I do these I try and position the sun (okay, position myself so that the sun) is behind a tree and only it's rays are visible. I back light effect and the rays of the sun take on more character.
This is a nice picture though and the most important thing is that you've found a spot that works.

i agree with Dooda's technique with getting the sun behind a big tree to only have the rays as the highlights

regardless i love this shot, and you found THE perfect spot to capture this forest...alos agree on a small crop on the left

Hi

Thanks everyone. All the tips and suggestions are spot on. Thank you. I will try to do some processing in PS.

The picture was taken at Sherbrooke Forest. The sun was going down - I think it was 4 pm thereabout. I was hoping to photograph the "waterfall" there - but there wasn't one. It was just a small creek running down a slope. No wonder it was call "Sherbrooke Fall".

regards,

Arthur

Fairy-tale forest picture. Very nice!

Yes - that is Sherbrooke forest alright! I remember visiting it as a child once.

Your photo captures the cool forest climate and feel beautifully.

From a photographic point of view, putting the sun behind a tree might have inhibited the lens flare and added a 'sunlight streaming through the canophy" effect.

Thank you for sharing this photo Arthur. It bought back some fond memories for me!

Cheers

Graham

Yeah you should of asked Arthur, I could of told you that it's more of a trickle than a waterfall Been up there heaps and while it's a great walk it's nothing more than a bit of water run off. There is another walk on the other side, go up Grantulla Rd. All of the tracks off of there are quite nice.

Hi Graham

Thanks and you are most welcome.

Hi Kipper

Thanks. I won't hestiate to ask next time.

cheers,

Arthur