The geese weather is back

LJ, thanks for posting - I always learn more from critiquing than I "teach" (not that I'm qualified).

First reaction: desert. Then, far in the background, shrouded in mist: geese. I might almost have missed them had it not been for your title.

So, these questions occur to me, and you may have an answer for all of them, and if not then it's just me, asking what occurs to me, for whatever use you might find it.

Also, I purposefully haven't yet looked at the rest of your portfolio - will do that later.

1. Why that much foreground? Do you find it appealing? Do you find it adds to the "story?

2. Why that much mist? Well, I know, that's how much mist was there, but you can adjust it with the histogram in post. The geese are "the" subject, so I wonder whey they are largely obscured.

3. Why is nothing in focus?

I'm going to try to post an edit of my own, if possible.

Charles

I have submitted so many closer up shots of the geese over the years I decided to try something new.  check out my 2011 section and/or Canada Geese section.  A few have been published, one on the cover of More of Our Canada magazine Jan 2013 put out by Readers Digest.

another was on National Geographic's Daily Dozen

I have just submitted another closer up shot now.

to me, the fog makes the picture... otherwise it's just a bunch of geese.

Tough call ... I looked back at your earlier posts back to 2011 and indeed I like them ... a lot.  Indeed the earlier shots are all geese and no other foreground than the geese themselves but in different tonality.  So ... I asked myself what it is about this shot ... is it the amount of foreground or the tonality differences?  I tend to believe that I would prefer a higher tone for the foreground and maybe a bit darker for the geese.  I did see your post with less foreground but it fits the comments above even more since the foreground is even darker ...

I do like your body of work and thank you for your continued sharing with the PN community ...