A walk in the woods

Took these whilst walking in the woods a couple of weeks back.
C&C welcome as always.

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i love the colours of the berries in that second photo

Hi Father Ted,

Looks like an enjoyable walk, plenty to take in!

I see exactly why you took the first photo: the intersection of the trails, the inviting pathway, the verdant greens, and the dappled light. Lovely.

The light also poses a bit of a problem, though: the very bright area at the top of the photo (which could be cropped out without any loss to the image) and the slightly blown highlighted area near the bottom of the image (by lowering the contrast I was able to rescue that area slightly - you could probably do better than I did with a little more time and effort). Always such a hard balance to not blow the highlights from dappled light, but at the same time not have too many darkened areas.

That being said, very inviting and pleasing!

Cheers,

Thanks guys!
The berries are straight off the camera, just resized for here.

I tweaked the brightness and contrast a bit on the second one, but just quickly. As you say, it is difficult to rescue the bright part at the bottom, without darkening the rest too much. But I might give it another go, selectively darkening that area.