The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
Fall is a great time to visit Tim’s Pond, a small recreational fishing pond on the White Pass highway. Lots of color and usually very little wind in early morning. It’s a little cold, but rewarding.
Jim, the glow of the backlit shrubbery and its reflection look great. It’s easy to imagine sitting here, contemplating whatever… Cloning out that brighter bit of shore touching the right would remove a minor distraction.
What drew me to this image was the great backlighting, but I kept finding my eye being directed to the red foliage on the right side of the frame and couldn’t understand why you left that part of the image. I found the lowest part of the image on the left side and matched it to the right side, then cropped. It’s a thought.
Appreciate the likes on the edit. One thing I have gone back to as per my own edits is to set them on the shelf for a few days, then have a second or even third look as if seeing the image through another’s eyes. Often, this leads me to eliminate extraneous elements. When I was teaching Photo101, I suggested to my students, that just like a novel, if there is a character or scene that isn’t moving the story forward, those elements had to go- the quicker, the better.
