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 is your initial emotional response?
What overall mood or atmosphere is conveyed by the image?
Are there any questions or curiosities evoked by the image?
Other Information
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Image Description
I was drawn to the minimalist, comical, almost abstract posing of these seals as they tried to stay on their sandbar as long as possible while the tide came in. For me, the B&W processing, with a decent amount of contrast, seemed to draw out these qualities best.
Technical Details
Canon EOS R7, 1/1600 sec at f/6.3, ISO 400
Canon RF100-500 f/4.5-7.1 at 400 mm
Processed with Adobe LR and PS
Specific Feedback
Any feedback welcome. Some questions I have for a viewer would be:
– Does the contrasty, B&W processing appeal to you/work for you in this case?
– Is the shallow depth of field, and the somewhat out-of-focus seal on the right, a distraction?
– Where’s the 5th seal’s head? (Answer–hidden, not removed :))
Critique Template
Use of the template is optional, but it can help spark ideas.
- Vision and Purpose:
- Conceptual:
- Emotional Impact and Mood:
- Composition:
- Balance and Visual Weight:
- Depth and Dimension:
- Color:
- Lighting:
- Processing:
- Technical:
I wonder to what extent you brightened up the heads and I wonder what happened if you had darkened the heads a hair, but it works the way it does, it brightened up my day, so mission accomplished. Thanks for sharing.