Forest of Trees

Canon Kiss Digital X & Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USMISO100 at f11 for 0.8 seconds, 70mm

This photo was taken in a forest an hour west of Sendai in Northern Japan. What I liked about this scene was the continuation of all the parrallel lines is these trees. The first photo I took had the green bushes higher up into the photo but after looking at the photo on the on camera display, I realised that they would be better balanced with the greenery above if I put them in the lower third of the photo. So I reframed the shot and this is what I ended up with. Being inside this forest on a cloudy day made the lighting softer and not so contrasty but there was less of it. This ment I had to use a tripod. I also stopped down the lens to get a lot of depth of field.

In post processing, after making some standard adjustments to get the photo looking reasonable, I also adjusted the colours a little. There was a lot of yellow in the photo, so I shifted some yellow towards green and some other yellow towards orange so I could get some stronger colour contrast.