A Bow on a Boughby
CitadelComment: Greetings from the Critique Club
The first thing that pops into my mind when looking at this, is what is the subject? Is it the branches of the tree, or is it the bird? In other words, it was not immediately obvious which possibly hurt your score.
I didn't vote on this one, but probably would have only given it a 5. Although it is quite well composed, I found the branch sticking in the top left of the frame to be distracting, as it invades what would be some negative space, and also it is out of focus. Given that this was an advanced editing challenge, I do not think it would have been out of line to have cloned that out.
The sky is not a particularly interesting colour, it is not intense enough to give the impression of a sunset, but tends to look grey and a bit murky. Given that the tree and bird are in silhouette, I may have been tempted to try this one in black and white (but then, I am a big black and white fan).
My critique sounds a bit harsh, apologies, I was just trying to explain the lowish score. It is not a bad image, I just think it could have been a bit stronger with some extra editing steps.
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