Deadhorse for critique.

[Ben Egbert]

I am trying something new here in an attempt to get some action at this forum. But nobody seems to visit this form so I will also add a link here from landscape to see if it gets more draw.

This image might be pretty good with a decent sky but as is, it's just a practice image. As such it can be critiqued for composition, crop and processing.

Feel free to critique anything you see, and even download and play with it.

 

[Timmeh]

Hi Ben,

I don't think I've ever stepped into this forum... You have nice interplay between the left and right and the river gives a natural way for the eye to flow from right to left. All the light seems to be guiding the eye to the river except for the one light spot in the bottom middle which takes you out of the bottom. I would burn that down or even clone it out.

Tim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hi Ben,

I don't think I've ever stepped into this forum... You have nice interplay between the left and right and the river gives a natural way for the eye to flow from right to left. All the light seems to be guiding the eye to the river except for the one light spot in the bottom middle which takes you out of the bottom. I would burn that down or even clone it out.

Tim

Thanks Tim, good eye and I will definitely do that. Check back in a while and after I get a few more comments, I will try to incorporate the ones I can and post the results.

This is a good place to put images that are not quite presentation quality.

 

[JimFox]

Okay Ben, I have a few minutes break between grandkids jumping on me, let me download this and see what I can come up with.

 

[JimFox]

Hi Ben,

I don't think I've ever stepped into this forum... You have nice interplay between the left and right and the river gives a natural way for the eye to flow from right to left. All the light seems to be guiding the eye to the river except for the one light spot in the bottom middle which takes you out of the bottom. I would burn that down or even clone it out.

Tim

Hey Tim, glad you found the Critique Forum! I had the same initial thoughts on this as you did.

 

[Kyle Jones]

My first thought was the bright rock bottom middle as well. I'd probably try a content aware fill to remove it as I think burning it down will still draw too much attention. I like the composition a lot and wouldn't want to mess with it. I'd work on toning down the highlights in the top right area and probably do some dodging in the areas where the sun is kissing the landscape in the lower left just to bring some more depth and texture into that area.

 

[Ben Egbert]

My first thought was the bright rock bottom middle as well. I'd probably try a content aware fill to remove it as I think burning it down will still draw too much attention. I like the composition a lot and wouldn't want to mess with it. I'd work on toning down the highlights in the top right area and probably do some dodging in the areas where the sun is kissing the landscape in the lower left just to bring some more depth and texture into that area.

Thanks for the detailed critique Kyle. I think I am ready to try a rework.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is my first rework based on the comments about the rock and from Kyles detailed critique. Let me know if this is enough.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ben, here is my rework. Basically I lightened the shadows and darkened the highlights, added a bit of red to the highlights. And then reapplied some contrast.

Though looking at it now, I think I needed to darken the blacks even more, that now seems too flat. But here is a first go at it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Jim, I see where you are going here, but it does look a bit too bright to me in the shadow areas.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks Jim, I see where you are going here, but it does look a bit too bright to me in the shadow areas.

Yeah, it's funny how you sometimes don't notice something until you post it.