Originally Posted by
polyglot
Thanks guys; it's appreciated. I was considering cranking the contrast a little (bring the white-point down to the trees' highlights) but the left crop didn't occur to me. I'm intrigued that you both cut the dirt from the foreground whereas I would have kept it as a "floor" to the image. Any particular reasoning for cropping it there?
I've uploaded a new version now, taking into account your suggestions. It should appear in my old post.
Critiques can stimulate us to see as others do, and there are many ways to make a nice photo. If you've been opened to a different option, that's probably time well spent.
(I like to put my photos away for a long time, to forget all about what I experienced at the scene, before printing them. That way I'm more likely to see the photo as others do.)
Some people like to explain how and why a particular crop of change of tones affects things. I prefer to let the eyes do the talking, so to speak. This is akin to the way Edward Weston used to give critiques, according to Merg Ross, one of our esteemed forum members:
"Edward Weston... would shuffle through a group of prints separating them into two piles. All of this was in silence. At the conclusion, he would point to one pile and utter: These I like."
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