Nature Reclaiming Silver Minesby
pmichaudComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
Well first of all, I want to say this shot is pretty good and I had probably given it a 6 if I had voted. That´s a huge compliment cause I really really really detest selective desaturation when it´s done without any apparent reason. It´s almost not noticeable so it´s pretty well done, I didn´t quite get that you selectively desated it at first, just thought the sky looked very odd. I can say for sure I still would have preferred the sky to remain as it should be, blue but that´s maybe just me, have a feeling it cost you somewhat with the voters though, possibly a 6+ score.
Anyway, the shot is nicely composed and got good tones everywhere so it´s well lit and processed too. I personally think the foreground could stand to be a bit darker though and would have darkened it in post processing had I taken this photo but it´s not something that is bothering me, just thought I´d mention it.
The scene is interesting, mostly for that dead tree wich was a good find. All in all I think this shot is above average in the challenge and I see most voters agree with me.
I am sort of surprised you had to reduce noise in this image, I also have a 30D and at iso 100 it´s crispy clean unless you underexpose and then bring up shadows, the shadow areas then have noise in them but that would never be apparent in web resolution.
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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