Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction
Please share your immediate response to the image before reading the photographer’s intent (obscured text below) or other comments. The photographer seeks a genuinely unbiased first impression.
Questions to guide your feedback
What’s your reaction?
Other Information
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Technical Details
ISO 100, 24mm, f/22, .5 sec. I took two images with some camera movement and combined them in Photoshop.
Specific Feedback
All comments are welcome.
Hi Don,
My first impression was “hmmm…?” I can see that you used ICM/multiple to create it, as well as some form of lighting (flashlight? Headlights?). It’s a treed mountain side. The longer I look at. it, the more interesting it is. My first view was on an iPhone. Needless to say it didn’t really show it well. Am on an iPad now—a little better. I think it works as an abstract. Thanks for challenging my seeing! PS The sky is very interesting. Painterly.
| Don Peters Abstract Moderator
April 8 |
Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction
Please share your immediate response to the image before reading the photographer’s intent (obscured text below) or other comments. The photographer seeks a genuinely unbiased first impression.
Questions to guide your feedback
What’s your reaction?
Other Information
Please leave your feedback before viewing the blurred information below, once you have replied, click to reveal the text and see if your assessment aligns with the photographer. Remember, this if for their benefit to learn what your unbiased reaction is.
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Interesting, but not my cup of tea, Don. It reminds me of something you might see in a horror movie (also not my cup of tea).
Susanna, Dennis, thanks for the responses.
My first thought, Don, was eerie or ghostly. I think that comes from two things: one is the sense of a ghost image behind the foreground, and the other is the lime green color, kind of slime mold, ghost busters effect.
I don’t know what your were aiming for (yet, will look momentarily), but if you hoped to create the impression of an uneasy dream state in the mountains, I think you succeeded.
ML
Thanks, Marylynne.
Although I like the image, I don’t have any ego tied up in it. There’s no “correct” reaction to it. It’s interesting to me that both you and Dennis got a sense of unease from this one. To me, the image is positive and hopeful.
I think you’re right about what creates the ghostly effect. I underestimated the power of color.
