River red gums in flood

[Diny_Jones]

Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction

Please share your immediate response to the image before reading the photographer’s intent (obscured text below) or other comments. The photographer seeks a genuinely unbiased first impression.

Questions to guide your feedback

Do the reeds provide a barrier to the eye?
Is the light too harsh?

Other Information

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Image Description

River red gums are majestic trees that line waterways in outback Australia. They can live up to 500 years. To see a skeletal tree gives a sense of time and place. These trees are unaffected by flood waters and are an indicator of water nearby.

Technical Details

Nikon z
80-200mm lens 2.8
F22, ISO 31, 1/10 sec

Specific Feedback

Aesthetic and technical feedback please.

[David_Wallace]

Hey Diny! Good to see you over here! I’m really enjoying this one. I’ve said this many times here but the way some of you can handle these high contrast blue sky scenes has me amazed. You’ve got a really interesting subject here in these three trees. If the image were mine, I’d be looking at a way to remove some of the brown water at the bottom. It doesn’t add much (if anything) and has some distracting elements with the sticks. Personally, the reeds don’t bother me one bit!

Im going to check your comments and then I may add some more!

[Diny_Jones]

Hi David,
Thank you for your comments. I will see what the image looks like with some of the brown water removed. I had left it in because of the tree reflections but I think it may give the image more of a frame.

[Diny_Jones]