Walking in the Woodsby
levyj413Comment by alexzen: Greetings from the Critique Club :)
First impression is: great sky, boring foreground.
Composition:
The wide angle worked very nicely at making the sky quite dramatic. This is a unique composition by using it in portrait mode. I would be curious what the sky looked like horizontally. But in portrait mode the sky seems to be exploding upward. Wonderful.
Color:
Great color in the sky, good tonal range in both the sky and clouds. Focus in the sky seems good.
So why didn't it score better? Appears that the foreground really detracted from this image. The foreground does not add much other than a context. The trees are not particularly focused and they lack color. And since they are pointing into the center of the wide angle they in a way are fighting the exploding nature of the sky, almost trying to constrain the sky. It does create some interesting tension.
The objects at the botton of the image, by the road, do not add anything but clutter to the image and make it seem more like a snapshot. It is like the top 2/3rds of the image is a 6.3+ photo but as your eye moves down to the bottom it is anchored by a 5+ photo. Not sure how you can crop it to improve.
Execution and combining images is great. It is really only the composition and foreground that hurts this image.
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Ken
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