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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

What kind of reaction, if any, do you have to this one?

Other Information

Please leave your feedback before viewing the blurred information below, once you have replied, click to reveal the text and see if your assessment aligns with the photographer. Remember, this if for their benefit to learn what your unbiased reaction is.

Image Description

There’s a natural tendency with an abstract to ask “what is it really?” It’s really a pictorial event, not a replica of something else.

Technical Details

This is a composite of two photos. One was ISO 160, 371mm, f/32, 1/5 sec. The other was ISO 100, 234mm, f/36, .3 second.


Critique Template

Use of the template is optional, but it can help spark ideas.

  • Vision and Purpose:
  • Conceptual:
  • Emotional Impact and Mood:
  • Composition:
  • Balance and Visual Weight:
  • Depth and Dimension:
  • Color:
  • Lighting:
  • Processing:
  • Technical:

My first impression is Spring Garden. The pink and green pastel colors and soft textures are what make that come to mind for me.

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