The Unwanted

Image Critiques Weekly Challenge
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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

I didn’t know what to think when I first saw these trees on our trip to New Zealand.

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.

Technical Details

Focal Length 105.0 mm
Aperture f/16
Exposure Time (1/90)
ISO 100

Specific Feedback

Please give me you initial and emotional response to the image.

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:
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  • Vision and Purpose: I agree with you. I am not sure what to think, but there are some evergreen trees here which was the challenge.
  • Emotional Impact and Mood: This composition puzzles me and intrigues me at the same time.
  • Balance and Visual Weight: The green is sprinkled throughout, but the dark areas in the scene almost outweigh them.
  • Technical: It almost looks like you did intentional camera movement with this scene.
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Thanks for your impressions. I appreciate you checking it out and offering your critique. While hiking I saw this stand of dead pine trees which seemed so bizarre . Not a burn scar like I’m used to. I had to take a image of it without showing the entire scene, I later found out this evergreen was not native to New Zealand and the stand was sprayed with a herbicide to stop the spread of them.

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Cool image, but puzzling…
105mm ? (my 105 is a macro)
Looks almost like a piece of flannel

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Hi Sandy, thanks for sharing your impression. The image is cropped. Viewing in person I wondered what happened to the trees so I took a shot that later didn’t seem that interesting until I cropped it to try remove some reference surroundings.