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apergamentComment by Bear_Music: Greetings from Critique Club
I pretty well understand what you were after here, the sense of misty, otherworldly enchantment of a pasture in the early light. I applaud your ingenuity in experimenting with the filter. And the image definitely meets the challenge, "Country Life".
The image as a whole, however, falls a little flat. Literally. There's no sense of luminosity, and what mostly works well with misty scenes is that sense of inner luminosity, that eerie, glowing light. So it was a good experiment, but in the end it didn't transcend, as it were.
Some other reasons why:
1: the composition is pretty static; one of the nice things about mist pictures is that they encourage a journey, visually, into the mist usually, and the very, very strong foreground anchoring of the horse precludes such a journey, there's no BG glow or light to pulse us deeper.
2: it's unfortunate that the horse's back is tangent to the fence line; crouching just a bit to make the shot would have solved this.
So, overall it's a pleasing shot but in the end it's nothing more than that, no wow factor, no sense of involvement or mystery.
R.
ETA: FWIW, I happen to have a mist shot with softness and sharpness, mist and luminosity, foreground and depth, all integrated reasonably well, if you wish to look: it's #4 in my portfolio. I have almost never pulled off a really nice mist shot, it is hard.
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