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
What is your response to this? Is there a mood?
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
This is a single frame, composited with an edge mask of itself. Rotated to vertical orientation so that it looks like an upright tree (I could see that in the field). It is a horizontal snag in the river next to a bush. Shot with a Lensbaby Sweet 50.
Technical Details
Minor adjustments in ACR (noise, sharpening); most done in PS. Here’s the layer stack:
Specific Feedback
Mainly looking for your reaction, whether aesthetic or mood.
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:
