The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
I was inspired by the whiteness of this rocks amidst all the others. The tonal qualities were there naturally. I have done little post processing. I just liked the forms here and their relationship to one another. This was shot at the base of a cliff, a place where enormous rocks had fallen and rolled from the top.
Specific Feedback
Is this too simple?
Is this too centered?
Are the tones represented in the best manner?
Is it too bottom heavy or is that a good thing?
Technical Details
GFX50R, 45-100mm, f/11, iso 100, focus stacked
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I like it - it almost looks like a dinosaur tooth! I like how the pointed rock stands out from the rest of the scene due to it’s interesting and strong shape as well as it’s brightness. The brighter twigs to the right of it pull my eye away from the rock and it might be worth considering darkening them a bit. I wouldn’t get rid of them completely but rather subdue them a little bit more.
Hi Igor,
I like the range of tones you captured in this intimate landscape along with the luminosity of that dominant rock. It seems to have this wonderful glow and the shape reminds me of a Hershey Kiss. My only suggestion would be the same as @Tom_Nevesely about darkening those couple of twigs. IMO the rock is just off center enough to work. It is a simple scene; and I don’t mean that in a negative connotation. I don’t think all scenes need to be complex to work.
It’s funny, I was going through Guy Tal’s More Than a Rock book this morning and it made me come back to this image which I had not yet commented on. There are two quotes from different artists that I thought I would share with you because , well, it speaks of this image you are sharing:
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Edward Weston
And this one: Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it’s found. James Russell Lowell
You often photograph rocks but you always leave the reader or viewer with an emotional connection. Yes, they are just rocks but once you find these rocks, you expertly compose them in just a way to make them more than just rocks. They speak to you. It’s often their shape, their tones and color, their position amongst other rocks, and of course the light and shadow that can tell a story on their own. You have a way of making rocks tell a story with your compositions and everything just mentioned above.
Rarely does one come across a rock that stands out apart from its surroundings so strongly and yet that glowing bright snaggletoothed rock stands apart.
Absolutely Not. It’s the simplicity of the image that makes it so intriguing along with how you composed it.
Not at all. I think it needs to be centered because of the upper right corner and the complexities that would be revealed had you moved the rock to the left and there is not much room to move the rock to the right.
I think you nailed the tones. That bright white rock stands out because it’s bright and because of its shape and the texture on the front of it. I think the URC could be burned just a smidgen.
Nope. The composition works really well here. The image is nicely balanced right to left and top to bottom. I think you need a heavy bottom because that rock has the weight of the world balancing on its tip so it needs a solid base.
I’ve been loving your Hawaii series and this is a nice change of pace although I have to say that this can’t compete with Heart of Darkness. In fact I’m not sure if any of your images can compete with that one.
That’s what my son told me yesterday as well. He’s my biggest critic, and not only in photographs. It’s good to get honest feedback because even though I figure things out eventually I am too attached to an image to see it as someone else might. I also find it hard to compare b&w to color.
My only suggestion would be the same as