I personally like the lighting and angle on the very first photo. The sun shining down through the leaves and the shadows give it more of an effective composition.
Great photos!
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Those are quite some remarkable mushrooms! I've never seen anything like that, so big and... BIG. That's awesome.
Now first, for a quick overall comment, I want to commend you on getting nice focus. Forests can be difficult lighting wise, because it's so darn pretty and so darn dark. But, the first two had great focus, so great job.
1 & 2 These are pretty similar, and share the same elements that I'm going to be talking about, so I'm going to be lazy and lump them together. I hope you won't mind too terribly. The streaming of the light effect you managed to capture is wonderful in the first one, and really lends a "Oh, this is really cool" tone to the shot. I found the leaves in the foreground pretty distracting. I think that maybe if you were to capture them in better detail or closer up, it mind lend another element of interest, but as it is, it's mostly detracting from the focal point, which is definitely supposed to be the mushrooms. Now, speaking of "closer up", I think that you could work on the perspective. Photography, in a lot of ways, isn't really about documentation or even artwork in a sense. It's about presenting something in a different perspective. You want to share with the world how you see it, share your rose-colored glasses for a bit, and let loose your worldview. If you really want to make these photos interesting, get up close. Explore your subject, and look at it from as many different angles as you can. Obviously, that's difficult when it's higher up, but you can walk up the hill a bit, maybe climb a tree. Get the textures and the markings and what makes THAT specific thing UNIQUE. Then your photography will really bloom.
Last one: It looks like you used flash with this one- personally, I don't usually recommend flash, because it often takes away from the colors and vibrance of whatever you're taking a picture of. Here, it's kind of washed out the picture. But, I like that you got closer and played with the perspective a little, so nice job.
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Perspective and textures. Once you get those down, I think that you'll be excellent. Great focus and colors though, and I love the mushrooms. Definitely keep taking those pictures.
Wow, these are beautiful. The colours so vibrant and the lighting is perfectly captured in each picture. Though might I suggest you try different times of day. May provoke some different colouring of your surroundings and create a more magical feel. Really gorgeous images. You have a talent. Well done!
I love these pictures! They're absolutely gorgeous. The first and third ones are definitely my favorites. I really like the lighting and perspective on them.
The second is nice as well, and I think that the first kind of makes up for what it lacks. Which isn't much! Just lighting, I think. I really liked the way that the sun shone through the trees.
Back to the third one for a moment - was that a water puddle inside of the mushroom? It was really cool! ^_^
