Thanks everyone, it is always good to get all your feedback, as I wasn't sure that even though I liked the image a lot (but then I would wouldn't I?), whether my esteemed fellow photographers on here would agree with me, so thanks for all your confirmation, it is always very much appreciated
It's very good. What is the f stop, if you don't mind. DOF looks very shallow; even the trunks look soft, but it works.
JR
I very rarely shoot handheld or with autofocus, as I like to take my time and work through things more deliberately if I can, but for this image the wind was blowing so much, that I knew that if I wanted to freeze the movement of the leaves and branches, I had shoot it with as fast a shutter speed as I could get away with and which also meant that using the tripod and manual focus was pointless.
The shot was taken handheld using autofocus, with my old, beloved and now long retired Canon 5D Mk II, combined with an even older Mk I 70-200 f/2.8 L, maxed out at 200mm, f/2,8 and ISO 200 at 1/500th of a second.
Very good. Sometimes circumstances force something on you for a good reason, like here. Stopped down and with more DOF it wouldn't be as interesting.
I totally agree, as we often get so deeply into our methods and mostly wanting to create shots with the deepest of Dof and the sharpest of detail throughout, that it takes circumstances such as unhelpful weather (or perhaps that should be helpful) to change how we capture a particular scene, as farbschlurf correctly points out above.
I also took several more images at the time of course, but as the light was changing so rapidly as the clouds scudded by overhead and the colours kept lifting and falling in intensity, none of them seemed to be quite as successful as the first image. So in a complete break from tradition, I am now going to happily show you another one of my shots from the same shoot, but that didn't quite make the cut as it were
Thanks again guys
Dave
