Leaf

[Marko]

Any comments about this? Thx!

[MoinMoin]

Hmm – I think the backlight is a little bit too much. I am missing on the right side of the leaf the structures. I would try the burn tool.
But I am sitting at my office computer – maybe I don’t see it right here.

[Mad Aussie]

I'm torn actually. I think the backlit leaf needed to be larger in the frame to make it more of a feature. At the size it is now it is almost a distraction I think.

I would also have tried a harsher curves treatment here to really add some contrast and also make the blacks a bit more black. I think that would have hidden some of those branches in the background and made it a bit more vivid in general.

[AntZ]

I like the detail of the veins in the leaf, but like MA said it is a bit small in the frame. There is also light spilling on to other leaves, but only in parts such that they are distractions.

[Marko]

Interesting, I played with this for a bit and it looked better when I whacked the light balance really hard but I thought it looked too fake so I just dodged and burned and played and played.....- thanks everyone.