Critique please: Rule of Thirds

Title makes sense to me,

Rule of Thirds:

Wow! I love the colors! I was kind of expecting to see the middle in focus with the upper and lower out...Nevertheless, I like the picture.

Just offering an opinion
I would love to see more of the leaves to be in focus. But that's just me

Too much saturation in the blue for me.and I agree, there is a great amount of it....but I get your play on words in the photo.

Added some contrast and tried to lower the saturation in the sky without distorting the rest of the image:

I like that version better.

Great visual example of what the 'Rule of Thirds' is... I like the colors, and the fact that not all leaves in the foreground are in focus, doesn't detract from the photograph, IMO. It's a very artistic photo to begin with and in art not all 'rules' are followed. I like the crisp edge to separate the leaves from the background.

My 2 cents.

man, my eyes must be failing me, because I don't see the same crisp edges you do. I see some contrast lines, but areas that are in focus, I think the DOF is just way too shallow. With the foreground so close, and the background so far away, you could have easily stopped down a tad to get more leaves super crisp. But as it is, there is just so much of this shot that is out of focus (at this size), it really strains my eyes to look at it. I love the concept, the colors, the angle and all.... but there is no clear subject, and what there is is so thin, it doesn't come together for me. Really close, but not quit.

Crop about 1/2 of the top blue out.

Broncobear wrote in post #6554375
Crop about 1/2 of the top blue out.

Yes I agree, this photo doesn't follow the rule of thirds. The horizon line isn't even at a 1/3 mark and the out of focus reds should be at the upper 1/3 point which means cropping out half or most of the blue area.

I am still undecided -- I like the colors and patterns, but the image as a whole doesn't quite grab my attention the way that I think that it could. I am not sure if it is that so much of the image is OOF or the super saturated colors which on my wide gamut monitor sort of nuke my eyeballs.

BTW, if you were wanting to reduce saturation, then the step in which you increased contrast was counterproductive towards that goal.

I would agree that the blue needs to go, doesn't even look real. Looks like a background from PS or something.
You can still get the rule, with what would be left without the blue

droberts wrote in post #6564204
I would agree that the blue needs to go, doesn't even look real. Looks like a background from PS or something.
You can still get the rule, with what would be left without the blue

Yeah, I would agree actually, I still like the shot though.