Waving limbs

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

I was photographing creosote bushes, which are homely from a distance but interesting up close, and I decided to try some camera movement.

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Is it interesting?

Processing consisted of tonal tweaks. I had a hard time getting this one into balance and I may not have entirely succeeded.

Technical Details

ISO 100, 155mm, f/40, 1/4 sec.

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This is really cool, Don. I like it a lot. There are a couple of substantial branches on the lower left that didn’t get the message to dress up for the shoot and you might want to crop to remove those contrary critters. I really like the predominantly gold look to the image. Excellent work.

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Don, this one is very dramatic to many camera movement scenes. It almost makes me wobble or wanting to hold on to something here…well done.

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Dennis, Paul, thanks.

Paul, it kind of looks like the camera had been drinking.

Dennis, I think you’re right about the crop, if I understand which branches you meant. Here’s an attempt at a fix.

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Again, I appreciate the feedback.

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That does it for my taste, Don.

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The overall branch structure is so nice, and so cool that the size of the “squiggles” matches the size of the branches! The gold/brown against blue/gray is wonderful!! No suggestions except keep this one near the top of your collection!

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Thanks, Diane. I’ll keep this one with the other odd ones. :slight_smile: