Nice contrast and use of grain here. I think you probably meant to enter this in the Image grain challenge, not in "What?!", because I don't see the "What?!" here.
General suggestions to improve the photo: it might have been good to find a more interesting pile of leaves to use here. This may have made a better color photo. The problem I see with it is that it seems to look a little flat. Perhaps increasing the depth of field would make it better? Also, I might be mistaken in this, but I think telephoto lens settings tend to flatten pictures, and wide angle settings tend to increase depth. You may want to play around with this, too. |