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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

Greetings from Yellowstone! I’m here on a workshop with David and Jennifer and the weather isn’t so great, but we’re having a good time.

What comes to mind on your first glance at this? Is it curiosity at what it is or the mood or something else?

Other Information

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Technical Details

This is looking down on a small stream flowing off a thermal area.

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Specific Feedback

Mostly I’m wondering about the upper 1/4 or so where the water texture is different. Because it’s “behind” the little stick, maybe the difference in contrast to the “foreground” isn’t jarring? I can’t decide.

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Bonnie, my first reaction is “Carrie!”, or maybe the YellowstoneNess monster. Interesting that you chose b&w, because that does a good job of disguising what’s going on in the water.

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Hi Bonnie, You have shared quite a lovely image here. The B&W works nicely. Well seen and well processed.

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My first thought was similar to Mark’s – Yellowstone-ness monster! My next thought was, wait, is that ice? As I didn’t see any spray. The textures of the water contrasted with the branch and overall tonality are very nice. I personally would experiment with bringing the whites up a bit. Very lovely image, thanks for sharing!

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To your question about the upper quarter, I actually think this works well to make the stick pop more than it would if the background were as busy as the rest of the water.

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Thanks, @Mark_Seaver, @guy, and @Matthew_Chatham. A fellow in the workshop had the same reaction - he mentioned the Loch Ness monster.

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