Father-Daughter Sleddingby
EmerauldeComment by Harz_Joerg: Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
Great scenery, very well captured and presented. Action needs to be made up in my mind including the title and thinking about how father and daughter are sledding town the hill.
Content/Composition
Not much to say other then wonderful: the huge trees build a awesome frame (therefore not adding a boarder was wise), the road is a wonderful leading line and the high position of the camera strengthen the "uphill-impression": father and daughter a really going upwards. Also their small size relative to the rest of the image fit very well.
B&W was good choice too.
Thumb up for all that!
Camera work -technically
Also not much to say other than very well made: exposure is great, especially considering that snow images are always hard to take. Focus and wide DOF are well set also.
Digital Processing - Technical
Cropping, sharpening etc. are great, no flaws I can see.
Fits the challenge
That's probably the point where many voters had problems with: it does not show the action itself, rather the upcoming action in the near future. So the viewer has to make the action by him-/her-self. For me that was not too much of a problem, but envision someone from Australia, Indonesia or just Southern California or Florida who never did a sledge ride with some kids: for those the action can not be foreseen.
Anyhow, it's a great picture and I would have submitted it too, even knowing it might come short in "fitting the challenge", just for its beauty.
Good luck for your further submissions
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