Yes, John, you are right. Yours brings the white and grey of the snow out more realisticly, and then the color of the plant jumps out more. Mine has a slight warm cast to it. Thanks for the hint, I'm going to play with it a little more too, see you soon.
I know what you mean about the softness. You don't want to lose that. I took the liberty of applying a manual colour changing tool in Paint Shop Pro. I just selected the lightest higlight I could find in the snow and converted that pixel to pure white. That gave a subtle shift to the whole picture and hopefully makes the colour in the plant stand out more without changing the contrast any. What do your think?
Thanks for the comment John, I can try to beef up the midtones some, the total softness of the scene was what made me post this one, but you are right, thanks again.
I really like the play of shadow and light in this photo, but I feel that it needs a solid black somewhere in the image. Perhaps the berries. I'm not sure, but the softness of the plant itself keeps the impact level low in this otherwise excellent shot.
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