Mother Nature - The birth of a tornadoby
SDWComment by HBunch: *Critique Club*
In response to your request, here is your in depth critique from The Critique Club.
You got 20 comments during the challenge, 2 after the challenge, 8 in the thread asking for opinions and you want an in depth critique too. Not asking for much are ya. *wink* That being said, there really isn't much I can add since it seems that everyone really seemed to cover things pretty well.
Your big downfall obviously was not using the traditional meaning of 'Mother'. When a person thinks of mother, what do they think of? Moms, the person who gave birth to someone. Next I think of Step mom, god mother, fairy god mother, a physical person. Mother Nature is in there, but not high on the list. A photo of a stick wouldn't cut it for me either, but I guess technically would fall into mother nature as well.
Anyway...About the photo itself, it's a photo of a tornado. Not something you see every day for sure, and definately not something you want to get that close to EVER. So it does have interest.
I like the diagonal of the light sky meeting the dark sky and think the photo has nice balance.
Hard to judge focus since it's clouds, but the clarity is really good. I like the detail you show us in the tornado.
There are some aweful cloning marks in the bottom left corner all the way to the tip of the first downward peak. Looks like sloppy editing there.
I would also like to see more of this formation, but I wonder if that would hurt the 'balance' I talked about. I guess it would depend on your positioning and surroundings if you could have gotten a different angle or crop and if it would have worked, but definately something to try.
A neat phenomenon for sure, and only suffered for the challenge interpretation in my opinion.
~Heather~
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