The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This was shot from a ridge overlooking an area that had been scarred by previous wildfires. By this point the trees had turned to pale ghosts. This was shot in 2019. I’m trying to post old images while I’m home rehabilitating. This didn’t make the grade due to the lack of a longer lens forcing me to make a severe crop.
Specific Feedback
The crop is pretty severe. How big of an issue is that? Does it look crunchy?
Igor, I hope rehab is going well. A forced slow-down is rarely great for the soul, but revisiting older images can make it a little more bearable.
I’m really enjoying this one. There are so many diagonals, triangles and strong verticals. There is a strong, quiet mood that tells a story. The white branches and subdued colours have a touch of sadness about them.
I might have been tempted to look for a tree that didn’t exit the frame, but in this case it works beautifully.
At first, I hope you get well soon!
It is a good picture, with wildfire in the back of my mind, the branches look a bit like the flash of a lightning. I´m waiting for the thunder now
I think the crop is not an issue. On a 4k monitor, the picture takes about the half of the display, which is fine (at least for me). I´m not looking at pictures from centimeter/inches away, I want to see all at once. If you come close to the screen, you can see that some details are blurry or missing. But again, I wouldn´t mind.
I hope your rehab goes well, Igor. First, I really like the composition of this image with the reminder of a fire in the foreground and the forested mountains behind it. The crop doesn’t seem to be an issue when I look at it. I’m not seeing any significant pixelization. An excellent image, well worth reviving.
I find our burned forests fascinating. There’s beauty in that ugly, but I often find it a struggle to capture. I think the way you’ve backed up the burned trees with that beautiful, unburned, valley works very well.
When I click through the various steps it takes to get to the actual full-size version you posted, I think it looks fine (at least at this resolution).
I’ve been home sick with an upper respiratory illness this week, and it was a good excuse to clean up some of the images that were never going anywhere. I did decide to keep a couple and work on them though, the Wizard’s Hat image I posted being one of them. I hope your rehab goes well, and you are able to get out and capture new stuff in short order.
Thank you for noticing that. As I recall that was one of the features that excited me about this scene. The ridge I was on had been burned but the fire had not expanded to the opposite one. Furthermore I had the opportunity to shoot downwards and thus eliminate the sky. This allowed me to use the opposite ridge as a pictorial background and bring out the composition more strongly. I wanted this to be an artistic statement more than one about a wildfire at a specific location.
I now remember why I never posted this. I had always intended to go back and shoot this with a proper lens. However the 8 hour drive was an obstacle. Maybe this year.
I Igor,
First off, I hope your rehab is going well! Wildfires are a devastating part of nature, but the starkness and destruction left in it’s wake can have a sense of beauty as well. At first I was not sure about the lone tree exiting the frame, but after a few minutes of studying I think the crop was needed to help keep the focus on the rest of the shorter burnt trees as well. I also think your BG of untouched trees serves as a reminder of what once was. At this size I am not really noticing any crunchiness. My only suggestion would be to remove or include more of those white limbs sticking into the frame on the right edge. Very nicely done.
