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@Tobie The original shot is much wider, so I am going to try your suggestion on the landscape crop as well as the other crop suggestion.
@Kent DuFault this is a place aptly named Driftwood Beach located on Jekyll Island, Georgia. It’s about a mile long stretch of beach covered in these trees standing, toppled, and twisted all over the place. It’s less than a 30 minute drive from my home. There are so many opportunities there, I’m planning to do an entire series in that location once I feel comfortable with my abilities.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Original before post-processing other that crop
Thank you everyone for the excellent insight and advice.
Mistyisle, I was experimenting with exposure stacking on this one, I think the issues in the sky are an unintended result of that process.
Thank you Kent. Those two rocks in the lower left were not even on my radar, but now they stand out like crazy. I agree on the focal point placement. The bridge is a railroad trestle, I am trying to get a train schedule, so that one day I can catch the locomotive emerging from the woods on the right and coming down the track about midway on the trestle.
The power lines even work in this shot. Beautiful!
On the left of the frog where the light background meets the darker, there is an unnatural rectangle that looks like it was patched in. I would suggest blending those lines.
I would crop out the light, flip the whole image and then reverse it to make the viewer’s brain work a little harder.
I would suggest cropping on the left so that the back two arms of the light pole are gone (yes even those two birds), that would leave one arm almost guiding the viewer’s eyes towards the birds on the roof.
I agree with admin. I would suggest straighten and crop to get rid of that top left light.
Oh how wonderful it would have been if that one woman was sitting up in the diagonal line as her counterparts.
I agree with Erik’s suggestions and edit example.
Hi Colleen, I want to preface my comments by saying that I am just learning the art of photography myself, so my critique is coming more from an “eye of the beholder” standpoint as opposed to anything highly technical. With that said, I still hope my comments will be of some use to you.
When viewing your photo, I find that the stem and two leaves on either side of it at the top center of the photo tend to draw my eyes toward them instead of allowing me to focus on the flowers. In the bottom right corner of the shot, there is another white flower that is barely in frame. In my opinion, if the whole composition would have been shifted down and to the right so that flower would be fully in frame and the flower on the left would have been closer to the top left corner of the frame, the image would be more balanced.
