Love the composition Ishbel! You don’t see mountain ash on the east coast anymore because of the ash disease. From the image on the post, it is a little hard to read the leaves below the berries. The three leaves in the center that hang down are getting lost. I think they need more definition to separate them from the leaves behind them. Darkening the leaves behind them would help. Play up that those three leaves would be casting a shadow on the cluster of leaves behind them including the small cluster of leaves at the very bottom, which could use some more toning to give them some contrast and definition. Great job!
Love the composition Ishbel! You don’t see mountain ash on the east coast anymore because of the ash disease. From the image on the post, it is a little hard to read the leaves below the berries. The three leaves in the center that hang down are getting lost. I think they need more definition to separate them from the leaves behind them. Darkening the leaves behind them would help. Play up that those three leaves would be casting a shadow on the cluster of leaves behind them including the small cluster of leaves at the very bottom, which could use some more toning to give them some contrast and definition. Great job!
I also love the composition and beautiful colors!
Agreeing with the above. We had a mountain ash in my childhood home and I always loved the orange berries. You captured them beautifully.
Thanks – I’ll work a bit more on the leaves and repost!