The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This one combines four images.
Specific Feedback
I’m mostly interested in overall reactions but any specific comments would be welcome. I was exploring a few ideas and I’m not sure that all my choices were the right ones.
Technical Details
The primary image was ISO 100, 112 mm, f/36. 1.6 sec.
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Interesting, Don. It gives me the feel of looking through a very thin curtain at the river and the person on the bench. I particularly get that feel when I focus on the lower part of the image. When I let my eye rise to the upper part the foliage tends to reverse the feel to some extent. I like it.
Don, wonderful storytelling and creative image! I like the ICM background with good spacing between the trees. A few suggestions for the bottom portion of the image. I believe your intent was to create a reflection with a bank to anchor the person on the bench. I think some negative clarity and softening of that area would help unify the background and the reflected areas. I would reduce the opacity of the person and the bench and recommend a slight movement (motion blur) in Photoshop.
Those are very good suggestions, Alfredo. I’d already done some of what you suggest but perhaps not enough. I’ll play with it.
I suppose this is “storytelling.” The image was pretty blah until it occurred to me to add the woman on the bench. I already had a photo of a bench. My wife was willing to serve as the model for the woman sitting on it.
This is really engaging @Don_Peters. I like the color palette—natural, but also a bit ghostly with the greens blues and purples. It feels like twilight, or at least deep, cool shade, so a figure on a bench makes this feel very introspective.
