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ltaylorComment by nards656: ==Greetings from the Critique Club==
Composition
I really like the layout of the shot. The horizontal line at the far end of the porch breaks up the flow a little bit, but obviously it was beyond your control.
Camera Technicals
You've obviously benefited from the point&shoot capability for extremely deep depth of field, even with a large aperture. With an SLR, this shot would have a tremendously different appearance at f/2.8. This does work well, and you've got a great exposure. The shadows are there, but there is detail as well. The lighting is nice and even.
Post Processing
I think I would have desaturated the greens just a little bit, or used selective color to change the tone from that bright green that digital cameras so often substitute for the real green of nature. The green is just, well, in a way "wrong" for the tone of the shot. It distracts me. Muting it in some fashion would have really improved the shot for me.
Challenge
I don't personally think of log cabins as architecture, but I would not have voted you down for that. This comes across well as a "building", but not as the creative work of an architect. That's just my personal definition, and you may have suffered some from others thinking the same way.
Overall Impression
This is a nice image. It makes me look twice, but it doesn't seem to have a clear "subject", just a lot of nice objects in it. We don't see quite enough of the building to really get a feel for the "architect", but we do have a good idea of his construction methods. The distraction from the green hurts this image more than anything else I see.
Not a bad score, but a very nice image. Keep up the good work.
Please feel free to contact me by PM if you have questions. These are just my thoughts and impressions and are meant to be entirely constructive as opposed to insulting. I hope you find them to be beneficial and instructive!
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