# Confluence #2

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** abstract\
**Created:** [January 16, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121 "2024-01-16T21:20:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Bonnie\_Lampley](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/bonnie_lampley/32/4825_2.png) [@Bonnie\_Lampley](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Bonnie_Lampley)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121/1 "2024-01-16T21:20:13Z")

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![Whiskeytown_011424_1194 copy.jpg](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/4/a/4aceffef62a31a85f31121943bbb710d2a6d20f2.jpeg)

> **Critique Style Requested:** _Standard_
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> The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

### Description

Another ICM from the confluence of local creeks. The light was very flat as the day was totally overcast (what I call a one-shade-of-gray day).

### Specific Feedback

Is the movement in this adequately impressionistic or just annoying? It’s difficult to get just right amount of movement to make a scene impressionistic vs. things looking just OOF.

### Technical Details

 ![Screen Shot 2024-01-16 at 12.16.38 PM](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/8/a/8ae99e720f0246b296f0b5905b6e16aefa66bf53.png)

Local dodging/burning to even out exposure; subsequent saturation/hue adjustments.

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**Author:** ![Dennis\_Plank](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dennis_plank/32/27033_2.png) [@Dennis\_Plank](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dennis_Plank)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121/2 "2024-01-16T21:53:22Z")

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The large image looks good, Bonnie. That’s a problem with this kind of thing: the larger/closer it is, the more impressionistic it is. On a phone it would probably look sharp. There’s a slightly darker patch in the middle of the bottom edge that you might want to remove.

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**Author:** ![Alfredo\_Mora](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/alfredo_mora/32/42826_2.png) [@Alfredo\_Mora](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Alfredo_Mora)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121/3 "2024-01-17T15:18:45Z")

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Bonnie, initial impressions are that it needs just a bit more movement to achieve that impressionistic quality as your other images have. Sounds like a difficult balancing act with too much movement making things too out of focus. The image could be rotated slightly clockwise to level it out.

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**Author:** ![Diane\_Miller](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/diane_miller/32/27391_2.png) [@Diane\_Miller](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Diane_Miller)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121/4 "2024-01-17T15:57:43Z")

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Without seeing similars it’s hard to say you got the ideal balance, but it certainly looks good to me! I love what’s going on with the water at the bottom, and the vegetation is very nicely suggested. It’s sort of where ICM meets pictorialism.

Keep at it!! A very nice technique I’d love to see more of!

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**Author:** ![Bonnie\_Lampley](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/bonnie_lampley/32/4825_2.png) [@Bonnie\_Lampley](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Bonnie_Lampley)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/confluence-2/39121/5 "2024-01-17T19:39:30Z")

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Thanks, @Dennis_Plank, @Diane_Miller and @Alfredo_Mora.

> [@Alfredo\_Mora](#):
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> initial impressions are that it needs just a bit more movement to achieve that impressionistic quality as your other images have

Yes, I thought that might be the case. My husband agrees with you, too.