Greetings from the Critique Club!
Wow, love the way that the trees look almost like clouds! Wonderful alternating layers of light and dark, smooth fields and bumpy forests. Fantastic level of toning with no bleachy white expanses, though I do see true white in the foreground and areas of true black scattered throughout. Meets the challenge perfectly.
The one problem with this image is that there is just too much of it. There are too many houses, all competing for attention and all roughly the same scale, so there is no true focal point. However, if you crop the image so area where the two big swatches of field are broken up with light, you can see that they lead to that tiny little house all on its own on the far right. The treeline behind it leads to that same house as does the delicate fenceline. BINGO! There's your shot! You could even leave in some of the froth of trees up and above that house, as the squareness of the house breaks up all the flowing lines leading to it.
So take this pic, crop it as per above, and look at the difference.
Hope this helps!
Susan |