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Description
This is a gut shot. That is it’s shot from the gut without much consideration at what I was shooting. It just felt right. The snakey lines felt right. The dark vs light felt right. The colors felt right. The composition felt right. The title was thought of after the fact. There was never a thought of making a statement. The whole thing is unorthodox but feels right somehow.
Specific Feedback
I’m wondering once again about the exposure. Is this too dark, too light, or about right. It seems natural to want a crop off the left side but when I try it I lose the sense of space somehow and the image becomes about the yellow branches more. So I don’t know. I’m anticipating that that will be the main criticism of this image. I don’t want this to be a composition of branches as people do with trees. I want them to be within an environment. I also didn’t want this to be about body parts and yet I do want the reference to exist. After all that’s what drew me to this scene from the start/
Technical Details
GFX50R, 32-64mm, f/11, focus stacked
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Hi Igor, What a beautiful image you have presented us here. Certainly a great argument for trusting your gut! I think the exposure is spot on. Well seen and captured.
Igor. I think this one is outstanding. Trust your gut! One of the first impressions that came to my mind was “lost entrance to the Garden of Eden.” The misty dark trees in the BG stand as sentinels. The mossgrown downed branches look like an overgrown and broken down gateway. It has wonderful depth and color and you’ve captured an amazing natural work of art. Not too dark not too saturated.
My wife says this would make an excellent book cover. She suggested that you clone in a small fawn with bright spots.
Great image, exposure and processing. Before I read your comments, I too felt a crop from the left might be needed, but I didn’t try it so maybe you’re right.
Absolutely exquisite, Igor. I really don’t know what to offer with an image that is so profoundly beautiful and, as your title suggests, luxuriant. I understand your thoughts about cropping from the left. I think you probably could, - a touch - but at the same time, I’m perfectly happy with it as is and really only noticed at all because you mentioned it. I find the image very cinematic in the sense that there is so much movement, which I think has to do with the light and the depth as my eye begins its journey with the illuminated yellow green moss and into the mist. Your use of colour for this image is marvellous. How conscious were you of contrasting the chartreuse and yellow green with the red/violet-purple of the forest floor? For me, that contrast is just perfect. Really, one of your very best.
Drop dead gorgeous!! All of it – composition, light and processing – all said above. Saturation looks perfect to me. Crop? Yeah – 1 pixel off the left and add one on the right… It’s that perfect, for me. I would hate to chop anything off. With classic beauty like this you want things to be comfortably contained in the frame. This is a sit and meditate scene.
I like this as presented Igor. I feel as though I am looking at a primordial forest with the BG fog being the icing on the cake. no suggestions from me.
Just wonderful. With the talk of cropping, I initially thought some off the left, but after looking at it for awhile, nah. I think some of the (very slight) feeling of imbalance is because of the much darker LRC. Maybe lightening that up just a tad to make it less heavy could be tried. Or not.
While the colors are rather saturated, they don’t feel over the top.
The only teeny nit I see is that bright spot at the top of a straight stick in the LL quadrant. It looks like a metal t-post to me:
This is just beautiful and pretty perfect. I’m having a rough morning with work and when I saw this I just felt calmer. The colors are soothing, the softness with the fog/humidity is very nice, I love it. I did notice that tiny bright top of the stick in the lower left area, that’s the only thing I would touch. The cropping is fine. Grats on a wonderful shot.
Igor, the brightness and colors all look great. The big swoop of the three fallen, moss covered trunk do an excellent job of adding depth and eye movement. I do find the foggy area in the upper left somewhat distracting and think that a modest crop from the left and top would lessen the attraction of that area.
This is a perfect example of following your gut. Great image, Igor. Personally, I like the exposure/light in this photo. If I were to change it, and not sure I would, I might crop it in just a bit from the right, as Mark O suggested. perfectly seen.
Well, you’re just on a roll, aren’t you? Sorry, I’m viewing your images from the most current to your earlier ones, so my comments probably seem backwards. As for composition, I like it as is. Cropping from the left would drastically affect the overall balance in my view. The exposure seems a wee bit flat to me. I wonder if just a slight touch of contrast to render the fog a bit brighter and the greenery a little darker would help there? I love the dense layer of moss and the details within that. I would love shooting in this location!
I’m late to the party so will say, I agree with 99% of what @Bill_Chambers says except for the exposure part. I think the exposure , saturation and contrast are dead on.
