The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
We made a trip to the s0uthern Oregon coast last week. While the sea stacks were lovely as always, I was more taken with the morning sun shining through the dewy cobwebs on the tattered Queen Anne’s Lace plants.
Feedback Requested
This was about the beauty of the backlighting through the cobwebs and plants. I wasn’t thinking about a certain mood, but I’d be interested in what you see. Any other comments on composition, etc. are always welcome.
Technical Details
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM3
Lens: FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
Focal length: 105mm
Shutter speed: 1/250s
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 100
Processing software: ACR & PS
Major adjustments: Targeted adjustments to get rid of weird color casts from shooting into the sun. Dodging to bring out the backlit bits a bit more.
Blending/stacking: No blending or stacking.
Other notes:
I see much as you intended. The glorious crepuscular rays caught beautifully and perfectly exposed to communicate early morning sunshine - displaying cobwebs and other plants in this gorgeous light.
I like crop such that the semi-circle of light is central to the top of the image. I dont mind some of the mild flares and chromatic aberrations that remain after your tweaks - as for me it tells the story of the strong light breaking through.
It conveys the emotion of morning , just need a bit of mist and dew … but you cant have everything
I like the centered rays, Bonnie, and I can put myself behind the camera in this scene as I really like first light, fog and spider webs. It does feel to me as if you tried to take in too much territory with this one and I can’t really find a point to lodge on in the image: is it the rays, this flower head, that flower head, this spider web, that spider web? It may well be that you intended the image to have that kind of ambiguity, and that’s fine. We all have different ways of looking at and photographing a scene.
