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
Where would you step?
Does this image draw you in to look closer or does it make you cringe and move on?
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
Walking through the desert on is always on the lookout for critters that can harm us, rattlesnakes, scorpions, etc. But the desert plants, even in their decay, can be a painful reminder that they have a defense system also. This desert detritus is at the edge of a collapsed saguaro cactus, damaged years ago by one of the wildfires in this area. Part of this cactus avoided being burned but enough damage was done to result in its loss.
Technical Details
Nikon D850
Nikon 24-70 mm, f/2.8 lens
70mm, 1/40 sec, f/22, ISO 1600
converted to monochrome, cropped, and processed in LRC
Specific Feedback
This image is not meant to be visually appealing, but, how does it work in telling its story.
Does this color choice work? would you choose a different tone?