Creatures?

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Creatures?
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A close up of an iced over puddle in a county road. The color is dirt and use of cloudy setting in camera.

Type of Critique Requested

  • Aesthetic: Feedback on the overall visual appeal of the image, including its color, lighting, cropping, and composition.
  • Conceptual: Feedback on the message and story conveyed by the image.
  • Technical: Feedback on the technical aspects of the image, such as exposure, color, focus and reproduction of colors and details, post-processing, and print quality.

Specific Feedback and Self-Critique

I am not sure that I like the dark area on the left.

Technical Details

5DIV; 24/70 at 62; 6.3; iso 400; 1/320th; spot and cloudy; some dehaze. about 5% cropped off top.

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Jim, this is so cool. It looks like a topographic overhead image from a drone or something. I was sure that’s what it was till I read your post. Wow. Great catch.

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Jim, this is indeed an excellent job of seeing. I was thinking that of rocks, but having a hard time with the overlapping “bubbles” near the center left edge. It’s way better than rocks finding out that it’s and iced over mud puddle.

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Jim, this makes me aware that I need to look at mud puddles in a whole different way! Who would have thought!

The textures and lines, the shapes and all the shades of brown makes this a delight. When I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was an aerial view. Very nice.

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David, Thanks. As kids we were reminded to “stop, look and listen” at railroad crossings. When I have a camera, I try to remember that; especially to look everywhere. In this case I was looking at a hillside for sheep. Seeing none, I was headed back to the car when I noticed the puddle. I didn’t notice it before.

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Jim: Really well seen and since there is no sense of scale this is a terrific abstract. I love the textures, lines and color palette especially. As for the dark area on the left edge, it really doesn’t bother me. I would definitely not crop it away because you would lose sone of that nice circle adjacent to it. Perhaps dodge it a touch but it’s not incongruous with the rest of the colors so doing nothing suits me just fine. Very nicely done. >=))>

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@Bill_Fach @Shirley_Freeman @Mark_Seaver Thank you for you comments. They are much appreciated.

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What an intriguing abstract! Completely wonderful, and double the points for seeing it!! Congratulations on the EP – so well deserved!

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@Diane_Miller Thank you. Been a bit of a down week. The EP, which was totally unexpected, certainly made things a lot brighter.