Your Photo: Our Critique

This tree shot has been sent in by Alex Crawley. This is a perfect example of one of those times you have to think for the camera. The camera, set in program mode, has overexposed the image.  With some work on the levels you can achieve a better exposure and deepen the color of the sky.  As a visual photograph this is a start. With bare tree branches it is hard to isolate a specific set of branches resulting in random distracting branches.  For example the branches sneaking in on the left of the frame are distracting and I might clone them out and if possible include the remaining part of the branch that is in the bottom right.  This can sometimes be accomplished with a step one direction or the other to improve the framing of the shot. 
—Melissa Macatee
Contributing Blogger

This photo gets two stars on the PopPhoto Flash rating system.

The PopPhoto Flash rating system.
*= This part of the camera is called the lens
**= Don’t quit your day job
***= Good, but not yet great
****=So close you can taste it
*****= Yes, a thousand times yes!

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Comments

[Alex]

I thought this was an infrared image at first. I think it's interesting but again it might just be a mere snapshot, with most of the rest of the tree being cut off. it would work to next time try to shoot the whole tree with a wide angle lens. If you don't have one, stand as far as possible with your normal lens-view so you have the entire tree in your viewfinder (or lcd screen) and then crop out later in post processing to have the pictured focused close in on the tree.

I give it 1 star.

[Luca]

Sorry to have to be blunt once again, but I see nothing special about this shot, it did have potential because of the partially backlit branches with the sun creating sort of an aura. Identifying a single branch would have helped. I'm going with Melissa on this one and give a generous 2 stars.