Fantacyworld under the iceby
lastefComment by fotomann_forever: ::: Greetings from Critique Club :::
Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.
First Impression - the most important one:
Wait! This score what? Nooo.. there is no way! I really admired this shot and gave it a high score. Wow! I'm just speechless at that score.
Composition:
It could be stronger, but it's not at all bad. I like to see the crack in the ice run diagonally across the photo pulling the eye from top to bottom. Leading the eye is a strong tool. You force people to look at what you want them to look at.
Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
Focus - it's very nice and sharp on the ice hanging below. I'd like to see a bit deeper DoF so that the snow above were a bit sharper.
Colour - Not a lot of use of colour, but this photo didn't need it. Your whites are white however, so this tells me you got WB correct.
Light - A bit overexposed on the top part of the photo. But, going darker you risk loosing detail in the crack.
Compromise? Not sure if you shot this in JPEG or RAW, but in RAW you may have been able to have the best of both worlds, by processing two seperate TIFFs from one raw file. One would be overexposed and one would be underexposed. You then use the best parts of both files to merge a single image with deeper tonal range.
To grow its vote?:
Not sure all the voters saw this as fitting the challenge. I do, but I'm also not very strict on what I see as fitting the challenge. But, to get the high scores, you have to try to please as many people as you can.
Summary:
It's a good photo. Needs a little bit of work on the technicals, but it's not by any means bad. Keep up the good work.
Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy
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