The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
Scene shows a heavy snow in a lowland forest. Spring has sprung as you can see by the light greens in the tree tops and along water’s edge. I was drawn by the haunting look of the tree trunks in the forest filtered by the snow and it was kind of a reminder of how things move from old to new, having some refection of what has been but also knowing something new is just ahead.
Specific Feedback
Just first impressions and general reaction to the quality of the composition and if it succeeds any in invoking a connection or feeling.
Technical Details
Settings: ISO 100, f/16, 1/10 sec
Lens: 24-70mm, f2.8, @65mm, No filter
Processing: LRC, minimal basic adjustments and tone curve
Welcome to Landscape Michael, and this is a great image for your first tag in that category. It’s fascinating how black and white the trees are; it almost looks like you merged a color bottom with a black and white top.
I love snow streaks in an image, so well done there. I think the composition works quite well, and I like that nice s-curve leading through the foreground..
Hi Michael,
I love this image. It’s a wonderful scene, well shot, and fittingly titled. I like the black and white contrasting with the spring green. It all works. I can see a tiny crop off the left (that tree arcing into the frame grabs my eye a bit). But otherwise, nothing but a welcome and a well done from me.
ML
I really like the composition. I get the sense that the main tree in the photo is reaching out to catch some snow. I think the lean of the tree and the angle at which the show is falling both lend to that sense of trying to catch the falling snow. The gentle curve of the shoreline helps lead my eye to the BG and the other audience of trees just waiting for the main tree to catch the snow, to give their standing ovation. Anyway, that’s the impression I get.
Wonderful image Michael! The composition is quite nice and I like the contrast of the darker tree trunks at the top of the tree limbs covered in snow. I think you nailed the perfect shutter speed with the falling snow as well. I wouldn’t change anything.
Michael, this is a great catch, showing off the vageries of early spring, with the hints of green and heavy snow. I’m very much taken by the sense that the trees on the right are reaching out to catch the snow. Because of that sense, I think that cropping to 4x5 from the right enhances that feeling. The subtle greens in the land and water contrast well with the b&w of the trees and distant hillside.
First impressions…Great! Beautiful scene well captured. The edge of the shoreline ( and the more concentrated colour) is a perfect, and subtle lead in line. I love the snow fall on the limbs of the hero trees.
I’m just wondering if the image needs a very slight smidgen of a CCW rotation??
I really like this.
I love the atmosphere and the soft light, and I think the shutter speed is perfect.
I realize it’s very difficult, and maybe I’m being too picky, but if it were my photo, I’d try cropping a little off the left side—that last tree really catches the eye.
