Critique Style Requested: Standard
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Summer in Crested Butte
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Is the foreground strong enough for the image? Are the flowers on the right middle a distraction?
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24mm, f/9, 1/100, iso 500
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The foreground works for me. The arch the white flowers make sets a soothing quiet tone for the image, as does the subdued light. The repetition of the orange flowers with the orange highlights on the distant mountains is a nice touch.
That one orange flower touching the right frame edge is a bit distracting. The balance feels off to me, also - the almost equal proportions of sky and land don’t feel right. Perhaps going to a 4:5 ratio, taking a bit off the right and top would work. At any rate, it’s just a lovely photo.
Stunning image! I’d suggest taking a touch off the top to better balance the image, and cloning out that one orange blossom mentioned. The leaning pose of the right trees distracts me a bit, since all the others are straight
I love the foreground wildflowers and I love the sky. At first, I wasn’t sure about the mountains with them being kind of hidden behind the hill but the more I look at this the more I actually like it as is. There’s that bit of mystery and anticipation and it makes me want to run into the scene to get a better look at the mountains and the fact that you captured this feeling in a photograph is great.
Welcome back Mario. How many different flowers in a single landscape photo, you know that I love flowers! For a more balanced composition my idea is to crop from bottom till almost the whole stem of the white umbelliferous plant with two flowers. So also we can have a nearer look at the nice small flowers and of the far mountains. For the flowers in the right-middle I note that there are many others flowers and leaves cutted in the borders but that disturbs just for its color that is really exiting.
I would crop the sky and make this more about the flowers by giving this a 4x5 aspect ratio. The foreground is pretty bright for that type of light but it still works because the eye compensates and doesn’t see reality.
A very nice wildflower meadow with an equally appealing sunrise / sunset sky beyond.
