Original Post:
Black and White interpretation:
Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
We spent some time on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula in October and visited the North Shore road of Lake Quinault one day. There’s an old homestead there that’s under restoration and when walking across a small bridge I noticed the leaves and the mud left underneath this one after the previous day’s rain.
Specific Feedback
Anything.
Technical Details
Cell phone image with a Google Pixel 6a (the cheap version of the 6, so the camera has very low resolution by today’s standards).
Fascinating!!! I wonder if, after getting a good shot as found, that you carefully lifted the larger leaf to see if more of the ghostly leaf print could be seen. And if so, then progressively cleaned up each one, just to see what might be revealed…
I wish I’d thought of that! It would probably have been very cool. I suspect the bridge was very dirty when the leaves fell and the rain cleaned up everything around them. I was just playing with the file and did a B&W that might convey some idea of that. I’ll stick it below the original.
Nicely seen, Dennis. The color version works best for me because the “shadow” of the missing leaf is more apparent as an impression. In the b&w, the impression looks a lot like the other leaves.
