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
Is the subject obvious?
If not, where does this image take you? What does your mind do with it to explain it?
In any case, do you find the image overall pleasing and balanced? Any suggestions to improve it in those ways? Does it bother you that the line between the darker and whiter tones is not horizontal?
Other Information
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Image Description
I was a bit miffed to forego my cross country skis and resort to snowshoeing on a global warming day, where the temperature here in central British Columbia was above freezing and the snow sucked… in January! But I made the most of it and took my camera.
My eye stuck on the gnarled trunks of thelarge aspens in the riparian zone: they were bi-colored, the green-yellow where it was wet contrasting with the lighter tones where it was dry. And I wondered what caused all the nodules on the trunk, are there stories associated with each one?
When processing, I experimented with different rotations and liked this orientation the best, for reasons I don’t understand.
Technical Details
Canon R5 + RF24-105 @ 65 mm
1/125 s, f/11, ISO 800
Critique Template
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