The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
After the recent storms, when the sun came out, I ventured into the backyard with the long lens to fool around. I was deliberately looking for fantasy compositions “shooting through” various plants towards the light. The bright sun lighting up the many water drops on the plants made for lovely bokeh.
Specific Feedback
I’m pretty happy with this, but I’m always open for suggestions.
Technical Details
Single frame, processed in ACR & PS. Basic dodging & burning, conversion to b&w in PS.
Interesting, Bonnie. I like it a lot, though it does feel a bit unbalanced with lots of empty space on the left, but as Don mentioned, I can’t think of any other way to present it and I still like it.
I agree on the slight unbalance. My feeling is that there was too much on the right, not the left, though. My intent was to be a bit surreal, though, so I left it feeling (un)balanced. I’ll live with it awhile and see if I change my mind.
Hi Bonnie, I love the “brush strokes” look of the reeds, and I love the overall softness. This is a wonderful suggestion of a scene. Congratulations on this!
Hi Bonnie,
Wow. This has the ethereal and fantastic quality you were trying to achieve. I do feel the imbalance, but it also gives it a sense of movement (like the moon is moving left to right). I love the other “planets” in the image, the circles echoing the moon. The plants make it feel like we are getting a kind of worms-eye view, which is an unsettling but also illuminating way to look at the moon.
Beautifully surreal! It suggests to me shock-horror, hair standing on end! While unbalanced vertically, there is balance of dark top side with light bottom side, which perhaps adds to the overall edgy imbalance. Love this.
I hadn’t considered a vertical imbalance, more left and right. Maybe it’s the way the “reeds” are tilting. 