About the Image(s)

Our two maple trees dropped most of the remaining leaves last week during a heavy rain. Several fell on the back deck and this one I found interesting. I placed it on the black door matt as a background. It was late afternoon and windy so I used a high 1000 ISO, 1/400 sec at f3.5. Processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2025, adding some sharpening and dynamic contrast just to the leaf. Gave the leaf a good boast in vibrancy since it had faded a little on the tree. As a final touch a texture was blended into the black background.