Forest Hesitation

very sensuous and mystical...

David said everything. A very beautiful photo. Good work. Warm regards, FR.

Light, pose and post-processing are all excellent, Doug.

Would have been nice to see a landscape orientation (more expansive view) for comparision; it might have offered an alternative equally effective as this.

A gear wonk question: it looks like a heavily overcast day shot which I would have expected a wide aperture setting, yet the DoF suggests otherwise. Really nice effect.

Michael, the exposure was 1/40 sec, f/5.  Lens was  a zoom, set at 56 mm.  The depth of field was pretty deep, so I softened in photoshop. I wish I'd used a longer lens so it would have been soft naturally, but I think I would have been standing in a creek if I had, and also, I didn't think of it.  Creek or not, in baseball parlance that would be called an error.   Also, I started out with a horizontal concept, but this worked out better.  In response to your question, maybe I can find one worth a few minutes of finishing to show you.  I actually had to toss my original idea because I couldn't quite get it to work. Long story. 

Well, not too long, but not really worth going into. 

Michael!  I take it back.  I took one of the horizontals and smithed it into my Psyche project.  It's in the same folder here.  (one for critique forum, one for ratings forum)

Off to take a look...