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stantheman1313Comment by docpjv: Greetings from the Critique Club,
Stanley,
You are a very creative and gifted photographer. Your portfolio in general shows a man with a special talent.
Looking at a picture in the top 10 with a score of 6,5622 is most difficult to critique depending on approach. This critique will hopefully give you a little bit of how others may have seen it.
First of all, the photograph fits the challenge, is very creative and the monochrome works very well. The feedback from all the members who took time to comment was very positive and rightly so.
I considered a number of points looking closely at this picture.
In my opinion this work would have had a bigger impact if it was landscaped and not in portrait. That would also have given you the opportunity to play with the Rules of Thirds. That definitely would have had an impact on your composition. You have three points of interest IE the lighted mansion, the moon and the fog. The foreground gets lost as the eye diagonally from the house through the mist to the moon, hence my suggestion for a landscape.
It is also a fact that a little sharper house and more visible trees would have enhanced the appeal. The house should also have been horizontal and not sloping to the back for a bit more of the realism you worked into this picture.
Finally, I would have played with a little more contrast and then neat imaged the whole photograph to take the graininess out of the mist.
In Summary;
A clean, smooth spooky mist, a sharper,level house, more tree visibility and a tad more contrast on a landscape would have made this more of the winner it already was.
Congratulations on a well placed and scoring photograph.
docpjv
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