Silhouette
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Comment by strangeghost:
Greetings from the Critique Club
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COMPOSITION
Silhouette shots against a sky background or sunset are usually crowd pleasers but yours suffers from some drawbacks that probably doomed it to obscurity in a large challenge. Your primary subject, the large tree on the right, is awkwardly cropped on all three sides. The right side is clearly intentional since you were not trying to capture the entire tree, but the crop on the top and left just seems haphazard. The other major compositional quibble I have is the other foliage visible on the left and squeezed in between the trunk and right edge. The result is a shot that feels cluttered and somewhat aimless. Where do you want the viewer's eye to be drawn? What is the focal point of the image? I think you would have done much better to find a single isolated branch, or the much-sought "lone tree" where you could really isolate your subject and give a clear point of interest. Now, take that single subject and wait for the sky to really glow at sunset with vivid oranges, pinks and purples, and you'd have a real eye-popper. As shot, you have barely a hint of color right at the horizon - just not enough to draw the eye - and your blue sky is a dull blue.

TECHNIQUE
Technically not bad, but you probably could have pushed the saturation a little to bring out some of those colors mentioned above. The focus is good.

OVERALL IMPACT
A serviceable shot, but not very memorable. In a challenge this size, you really need something that's going to make the voter stop and look. Your shot probably generated a quick 5 vote and move on, as reflected by your fairly middlin' score.

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Comment by stek:
wow that's kind of scary.. intresting though.

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Comment by TheresaA:
Nice clean image with lots of good perspective. Good Job!

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Comment by FotoMunki:
Nice spin on the typical building shot!

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Comment by patrinus:
interesting part of the photo is too small and uninteresting is too big (lower part), good perspective but I might have done a different crop

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Comment by sestevens:
This is suffering from a lack of proportion (wold suggest applying rule of thirds here) and also nothing is lining up...the entire photograph is tilted.

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Comment by Jutilda:
CLEVER. I love it when someone finds a living action (or appearance thereof) of an inanimate object. I'm hoping you are thinking the two holes at the bottom are eyes? Not the most interesting photo, but your ability to see something other than what it is, peaks my appreciation and I'm voting accordingly.

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Comment by stam:
THis photo is one of the coolest ones so far!

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Comment by hitendra:
more cropping at the bottom? maybe?

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Comment by Caine:
Too tight a crop to be a well shot tree, and too loose to find any particular branch.