Through the Treesby
angela_packardComment by Matthew: Critique Club
Hello from the Critique Club!
I think that this is an interesting image, and I think that it has been a little under rated in this challenge. I like the idea: silhouetted tree branches against a pretty sunset are an attractive proposition.
I disagree with those commenters who suggested that you have more light on the trees: I think that you were right to go with the full silhouette.
My criticisms are as follows.
The trees are quite dense, and you might have been able to choose some trees that allowed a bit more light through so that more detail of the great sky lighting could be seen. Alternatively, you could have walked closer to the trees, and used a wider angle lens: that has the effect of making things look further apart, and might have opened up the image a little for you.
The most interesting area of sky solour gradation is in the lower half of the image, and An interesting alternative might have been to have had more trees in the frame, with a landscape orientation to maximise the amount of that area of the sky in your image.
The horizon is fractionally off - no-one commented on it, and it is marginal, but it needs a 0.5 degree clockwise rotation, I think!
In post processing, I think that you might have tried to obtain a little more sharpness in the image. This is difficult with complex and detailed subjects (such as the pine needles here), but I think that this image needs a fraction more sharpening.
For this site, given the strict limitations on image size, I must admit that I tend to avoid choosing images where the fine detail is important but simply cannot be represented clearly at the required resolution.
Good luck with the next challenge!
Matthew
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