A Country Dreamby
jbirkmanComment by LalliSig: Greetings from the critique club :)
Well I didn´t vote in this challenge but if I had, this shot would have gotten a 4 from me. I am sorry but it just isn´t appealing to me, it´s not aesthetically pleasing and not interesting either. First off, the lighting. I want to go so far as to say you took this shot completely during the wrong time of day. I say this because of the shadows in the frame, the sun is somewhere to the left/behind the subject and obviously quite high in the sky wich results in these strong shadows from trees to your left wich I don´t find appealing at all. I don´t know wich heading you are facing when shooting this but try taking this photo either around dusk or dawn, whatever works best for this subject, that would lead to much softer shadows and a much more pleasant color tone to the whole scene.
Just compare this shot to this one Ursula took, the biggest difference between them (besides the backround of course) is the lighting/time of day it was taken at.
I am also not really fond of the composition, you cut off the right part of the barn and in the lower left corner there is then a straw, I would much rather have wanted to see you rotate to your right and included the whole barn and excluded that straw. I have often gone to the length of just plain picking up straws like that and reshooting the image if they intrude in my photograph like that :)
To be not so totally negative I do like the location and photograph seems pretty well exposed and the colors are nice (although I would much rather prefer dusk or dawn colors).
Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.
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