Have & Have Not.by
tryals15Comment by RiderGal: *Critique Club*
First of all does it fit the challenge? Yes... you have grain in there which makes it fit the challenge... and unlike some photos I came across in the challenge... I think it actually adds to this photo, making it more interesting, without it I think that it may have looked a tad bland. So nice job with the added grain.
Now on to the specifics...
I like the juxtaposition between the two trees, the one that has lost it's leaves, and the one that has not... I think it's interesting to see them side by side. I also think that I like the fairly muted colors here... nothing too bright (which I think is helped by the grain) and it makes it look like an older photo to me.
I think your photo takes an interesting look at nature which I really like, and you've also done an excellent job with exposure, getting a nicely colored sky in the background, but still having details to your trees.
Compositionally I kind of like it... I especially like the little bit of hill that is in the image... the added green at the bottom and the roundness just at the right... It gives some added interest to the photo, and also once again make the right side look so much more alive and lush than the left with slight (telephone poles?) and the building, whereas the right tree is backed by other trees... I think it's quite nice.
The one thing I might have like to have seen maybe would be some added human element here (a child or something perhaps...) running around the tree that still has leaves on it... or just laying against it... I think it might have given it that extra oomph of interest.
Overall I think you've done a good job with the comparison between the two, and I think you have a nice simple image here. It doesn't keep me extremely interested for long, although the more I look at it the more interesting details I find...
-Talya
Photographer found comment helpful.
