Mossscape

[Dennis_Plank]

Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

It finally quit raining yesterday afternoon and I had a whole hour before the plumbers were due. So I figured it was time to try to get something new for this challenge. I did half a dozen stacks in various places and this one was my favorite.

Specific Feedback

This scene put me in a rather awkward and precarious position and there were a lot of twigs and dead grass stems in the scene. I deliberately chose to trust the remove tool and it came through quite well in my opinion. Id you spot any anomalies from that I’d appreciate it if you’d point them out. Other than a lot of tedious work on that, I had to do a lot of local luminosity adjustments to put the focal point on the dark hollow instead of having it end up on the brighter yellow-green mosses in the foreground-did I succeed in that? Is there enough interest elsewhere to keep you attention for more than a nono-second?

Technical Details

Sony A7Rv, FE 70-200 f/4 macro @ 70mm, f/9, 1/200, iso 1600. 70 image focus bracket assembled in Helicon Focus. Mostly cleanup in PS and lots of local luminosity adjustments using LR’s masking tools. Cropped to eliminate another hollow in the upper right that ended up not fitting the composition.

[Mark_Seaver]

Dennis, this is a fine collection of mosses, where you got a great spectrum of green tones. The bit of darkness and the Lichen(??) to the right of center are good additions as they contrast well with all of the furry moss. When I look at the large view, in the lower left corner, I see some young sporophytes where the tips are soft. That’s often a Helicon artifact, where bright things behind something sharp get given preference over the continuation of the sharp object in front. (Or were those tips above the first plane of focus?)