Was determined take some pictures this weekend after bad weather and work commitments had got in the way for the last few weeks. The weather did not look like it was going to come out to play unfortunately, but remembered a spot 30 minutes from home that I had noticed when exploring a month or so ago that a flat overcast day would work with.
Just a short bit of road but with amazing overarching trees that were intertwined, framing the road really nicely. Pulled out the 100-400 to get the reach and compression I wanted (ended up shooting at about 160mm) and a pretty slow 1/15 of a second shutter speed to push the aperture to f11. Other than that no filters or anything special.
The final image was cropped down to 5x4 (still trying to decide if I should have made it square and lose a bit of the road in the foreground) and then into Lightroom for some base adjustments and to warm it up slightly. Photoshop for some luminosity masks to add brightness and contrast to the branches and saturation to the greens. A bit of a vignette to focus the interest down the road and finally a light Orton affect to add a bit of glow to the trees and leaves, masking out the road and foreground. And that was it. No day is bad when you can get a nice picture like this.
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM, 158 mm ISO100, F11, 1/15