Snow Man Treeby
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I've looked through your portfolio before, and judging by your work am fairly sure that you can probably pick out anything that you may not like here yourself. Either way, you asked for a critique from the CC, so I'll give ya one :p.
Like mffnqueen, I appreciate/like your zoom technique here - you definitely used it well in order to emphasize the snowmen on the tree. It even gives the viewer a bit of a three dimensional feel. Unfortunately, for this to have worked, you had to cut the lights... and by cutting the lights, you ended up underexposing the tree and surroundings. I'm not sure if there's much of a workaround for this, considering your choice of technique. I would say to possibly try flipping the lights on for a split second, but at this aperture it may end up blowing out the effect of the zoom. Possibly a smaller aperture would allow this, but I've never really tried anything like this so I'm sorry to say that I can't give a definitive idea on that.
I tend to like the fact that there isn't a snowman in the bottom left, as it throws a bit of tension into the image that I like. But, not sure how everyone else felt about this.
Hope some of this might've helped. Happy Holidays!
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