Long, cold, wet, winter
Waiting for spring to arrive
Just like every year
Type of Critique Requested
Aesthetic: Feedback on the overall visual appeal of the image, including its color, lighting, cropping, and composition.
Conceptual: Feedback on the message and story conveyed by the image.
Technical: Feedback on the technical aspects of the image, such as exposure, color, focus and reproduction of colors and details, post-processing, and print quality.
Specific Feedback and Self-Critique
Should I take out those brown grasses at the bottom ?
Beautiful image to look at while waiting for spring, Ben. As for the brown grass at the bottom, I was so focused on the lush green tree I hadn’t noticed it. A slight crop from the bottom would eliminate it but then it would be more of a pano unless you chose to crop from either side, which I wouldn’t want to do. Just depends on your vision of the scene. I’m with you, waiting for spring.
The fact that you’re asking leads me to suspect those bits are a distraction for you. IF that’s an accurate assessment, then I would lean to thinking you should. (In the end, your opinion is the one that counts.)
They are not distracting for me. And given they’re something of a variant in the yellows elsewhere in the image, I think they contribute a bit of variation in the grassy foreground area.
This is a wonderful image. Had you not mentioned the brown grass I wouldn’t have noticed it, and I usually key into things like that. In this case, it simply isn’t a distraction to my eye. The colors and the various levels of subtle luminosity are quite lovely. Nice work!
This one sings springtime. The brown grasses don’t bother me at all. Like Bret, I would not even have noticed them if you did not mention it. I would be inclined to clone the larger horizontal dark branch coming in from the left edge, the one with the fork at the end. No other processing nits.
I would say yes. But make it a minor crop so as to change the aspect ratio as little as possible. Another words leave some of the upper browns in the patch alone.
Indeed a lovely image. Certainly speaks spring or even summer to me. Winter - not even close, so the message doesn’t resonate - but then for me most of the time I don’t associate with the message…
Count me for not caring about the bottom brown grasses. If anything I don’t see a need to crop or clone. Maybe, perhaps a slight burning of the part of the browns that touch the bottom edge.
Lovely image, but for me doesn’t have that special quality that most all your other images do. You have a high standard!
One thing I noticed on my second pass is that the tree trunk is brown part way and then it turns green up higher. Was that natural or due to processing?
@linda_mellor , @Lon_Overacker , @Igor_Doncov , @rjWilner , @Harley_Goldman , @Bret_Edge , It was my intention to show color and spring. And my Haiku as a reminder of the wet, cold winter we are in the middle of now. And the reassurance that spring will come every year
About the grass I asked to start a small discussion . And maybe to get some possibilities. It didn’t really distract me. But taking out a very, very small part at the bottom is a maybe or burning some of the brown grasses. @Harley_Goldman , Harley taking out that forked branche on the left gives to much light colors in that spot to my taste. @Igor_Doncov , Igor the tree trunk brown to green is natural. @Lon_Overacker , Lon keeping up that high standard becomes more difficult. But I am honoured you see it as such.
