Even though this is not my POW, it is still one of my favorites from the shoot. i love the contrast of the soft features of the feather to the hard jagged lines of the leaf even down to the urban grittiness of the concrete. For this shot i didn't want a lot of bright colors because it took away from the deeper impact of the details within the shot. As a side note i like to associate fall with colder weather therefore the picture needed colder colors. The original leaf was very bright orange but i felt like that wasn't the most important part of the picture so i brought down the saturation and boosted the contrast to bring out the detail lines and the dark dots on the leaf. Increasing the contrast also brought out the shadows throughout the picture but specifically in the lower left of the leaf. i also really treasure how the focus of the photo trails off as you get farther away from the camera. it gives perfect detail to the leaf, the concrete and the shadows, but trails off just enough that you can tell there's an edge and other leaves but it doesn't demand attention it just co exists in the background.
Then for My POW i felt that the image is really pulling your focus up into the canopy of the tree since there are no branches for most of the trunk. So to enhance that, i enhanced the focal point to be right in the middle of where all the first branches coincide and removing some of the detail of the trunk with a bit of blur outside of the focal area, thus drawing the eye to a more detailed portion of the shot. The original colors of the shot were kind of muted so i increased the vibrancy and saturation just a tad and then increased the contrast to bring out more of the shadows along the trunk and keep a sort of shady appearance.
All images were taken on my Samsung Galaxy S4 4.4.2 KitKat and edited using the PixlrExpress app version 1.6.1
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