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
I’m really interested in your initial reaction to this.
Overall, what do you think?
Is the image too simple?
Other Information
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Image Description
I spent the Christmas period in the Peak District and had one day I could get out to take a few pictures, I was incredibly fortunate with the conditions - the valleys filled with fog and the sun breaking through. The kind of conditions you so often hope for only to be met with overcast skies and horizontal rain… in the UK at least! There were many other photographers out that day, all of us rushing around desperately trying to make the best of the conditions. This isn’t really the sort of thing I normally shoot so after a while I scurried away to take pictures of a nearby quarry.
Technical Details
Fuji GFX 50Sii
150mm f3.5 adapted Mamiya lens
Specific Feedback
I’ve looked at this image quite a lot and I’m drawn back to it, but each time, probably because I took it, I can’t evaluate whether it’s actually interesting or not. I like the light, fog and the sillouetted trees but I feel too close to it to ‘judge’ it. I also think the edit could use a few tweaks.
Critique Template
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