Beech beauty

[David Paterson]

Autumn colours here are the best I've seen for several years. This was earlier this morning at my favourite location down by Loch Tay.

[Mikes]

Sublime colours, beautifully captured. I like the contrast with the already leafless trees on the left. Neat little sunburst, too.

[ColinM]

It's been a great autumn hasn't it Dave?
This is an excellent example of what the trees are starting to do down South too.

[David Paterson]

Thanks, Mike and Colin. We have several days of rain forecast, so I've been trying to catch these great colours before the rain knocks most of the leaves down.

[Mike G]

Yet another cracker Dave!!!

[Akira]

Beutifully contrasting groups of trees.  Thanks for sharing this pleasant image!

[David Paterson]

Thanks, Mike G and Akira.

[Frank Fremerey]

Plenty of them and so wonderfully colored.

difficult to create a picture of them as attractive as the impression.

you found a good solution.

[David Paterson]

Plenty of them and so wonderfully colored.
difficult to create a picture of them as attractive as the impression.
you found a good solution.

Thank you, Frank. And I agree - it is very difficult to shoot any popular landscape / nature subject without a) repeating yourself, or b) imitating something you've seen, or c) producing cliched or hackneyed postcard-type images. Most of my attempts fail by being a) or b) or c) but NG members don't get to see those.

[Frank Fremerey]

See a pictorial answer. I cannot scale that appropriately. It is so nice in 100% (34,5 Megabyte JPEG):

http://fotokontext.de/ZENTRALKRAFT/beech_OBF_6545_v1.jpg

[Akira]

See a pictorial answer. I cannot scale that appropriately. It is so nice in 100% (34,5 Megabyte JPEG):

http://fotokontext.de/ZENTRALKRAFT/beech_OBF_6545_v1.jpg

Frank, the image is indeed very detailed.  But why is the file size this big even as jpeg?

[Frank Fremerey]

Akira: I guess the file size corresponds with the amount of non compressible non repeating high frequency portions. Noise is not a topic here because I chose to work at ISO100. Noise can be an important contributer to file size in

[Akira]

Akira: I guess the file size corresponds with the amount of non compressible non repeating high frequency portions. Noise is not a topic here because I chose to work at ISO100. Noise can be an important contributer to file size in

Okay, I understand.  Thank you for the explanation!