>>4082978I like this one the most amongst the posted, but I enjoyed them all.
Forests are my favourite subject. There's no audience for it, no profit, just walks, and trees, and nature constantly changing and evolving. As for general advices, just continue shooting, observe what you're getting, and constantly try to improve. You're already leveling things nicely, which is often a problem for beginners, but there's always room for even better compositions and conditions, even in the same patches of land that you've walked thousands of times.
Up the crests rarely works for wider focal lenghts, leveled and downhill is better. Watch what you put in the corners, use branches, leaves and trunks as framing devices to isolate highlights in the frame. Also, be observant of the light. It's constantly changing in the forest. Clearings will act as sky boxes, you'll get spots of diffused bright sunshine for select close ups, heavy foliage will darken everything considerably. Sensors are crap, hdr looks like shit. The goal is to get even exposures across the frame. Avoid the shadows, or shoot only into them.
As a side note, something that sped up my workflow considerably, is setting up WB on scene. Nothing precise, just going for a neutral look by the eye. I change it if conditions change drastically, but I don't do much with it. I very rarely need to change wb in post now. I quickly cook up a preset and it works across all my shots with very little adjustments needed. When I was relying on auto wb, I was constantly fiddling with it in editor.
