Frozen Delightby
KHoltComment by dsidwell: Hello and greetings from the Critique Club!
This is an image full of colors and texture. It certainly is abstract, and I find it lovely and engaging.
I like how you've used various diagonals here, which give the photo some dynamism and increased interest. The colors also work well. The red in the middle is framed by the berries at upper left and corn (?) at left.
Your depth of field creates an area of sharpness right in the middle, then it slowly tapers off. It might be more evocative to decrease the depth of field by adding some more drastic blur. At F13, that's a small aperture, and it might be fun to experiment with a larger one. Often, blurry areas seem to help the mind go beyond the photo, as it were, and think of profound things....that's the thought behind it, anyway. In any case, your choice here isn't enthusiastic either way, so we have a sharp area and an area that's not sharp, but also not very blurry. Sorry to make a big deal out of this, but with no negative space to speak of, it would be nice to experiment to see if you can either create some negative space by adding blur, or make everything perfectly sharp. Starting to ramble. Sorry!
Your sharpening here shows some good skill, and this is a difficult photo to sharpen with all those white ice specks.
I also love the various shapes and textures here--it really is a good offering for an abstract with so much to look at and experience.
Nice work!
David Sidwell
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