Land and water

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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

Which emotions evokes the image? Emptiness? Beauty? Power?

Other Information

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Image Description

This images represents solitude for me, but although the landscape is mainly empty, it doesn’t feel empty to me. This is a primeval (is that the right word?) world, but I feel connection. It brings calm and peace.
It is the maximum contrast to the region in which I live.

Technical Details

Pentax K3 Mk. III, Pentax 55-300 @100mm, f/8, blend of 3 exposures because of the high contrast.

Specific Feedback

Any comment is welcome, as always. But I’m most interested in the emotional feedback.

Critique Template

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I don’t have a first impression, mine is an impression that will last: it’s a beautiful photo! I love everything: the shades of the neutral colors, the delicate lights in the sky, the shades of gray and white in the river. I like too the unusual composition. Just splendid for me.

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Thank you Giuseppe for your comment. I chose the panoramic format to have balance between the heavy mountain at the right edge and the empty space at the left. Glad that you like it. With a 3:2 ratio the image was too heavy to the right for me.

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I echo @Giuseppe_Guadagno comment, but do have a first impression: beautiful! I love scenes like this, and wish I could have experienced this one.

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Initial reaction was that the bright water foreground was excessive and distracting and hurt the overall comp. Liked very much the blue/gray sky gradients and the soft light is beautiful. Crop one third off the bottom. Some nice muted tones.

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Thank you @Stephen_Stanton @Jim_Gavin for your comments. Much appreciated.