Mushroom Manor

Image Critiques Weekly Challenge
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Mushroom Manor
Mushroom Manor1200×1500 226 KB

A pale-spore mushroom serves as the throne for the Mushroom King.

Type of Critique Requested

  • Aesthetic: Feedback on the overall visual appeal of the image, including its color, lighting, cropping, and composition.
  • Conceptual: Feedback on the message and story conveyed by the image.
  • Technical: Feedback on the technical aspects of the image, such as exposure, color, focus and reproduction of colors and details, post-processing, and print quality.

Specific Feedback and Self-Critique

I was drawn into the bright mushroom sitting in front of the gnarly knot of the tree branch. I looked like a throne for some woodland creature.

Technical Details

Canon EOS R
1/30 sec. @ f 4.0
ISO 100, 191 MM

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The exposure of the mushroom is good. But I find the brightness of the throne at the top pulling my eye away. I feel if you had stopped down for this (and changed the angle a bit), the story, with throne in focus, would be more compelling. Maybe you could go back there in less bright conditions? It’s a beautiful mushroom, deserving to be a throne!