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Park in Northern Germany in December and a little PS

What attracted me to look here is just the beautiful colors and tones. I really don't think you have over or underdone anything here, it is beautiful. I particularly like the restraint you have shown with the sky. Sometimes the tendancy is create a "full"sky which often loses the delicacy that can be there. I think it would be easy to think that maybe there are too many dark tones, but this makes this photo work so well and nothing is really blocked up. It appears that the photo may be a little soft, focus-wise, but I think it works at this size. (Maybe it got soft as you sampled down to a size that would fit the posting requirements here.)

 

So that was my initial cut on what is here. As I looked at the photo more, as a photographer, I wonder about the little plants that are popping up in the foreground. They do distract a bit, but it is still a nice photo. I do wonder if you lost the one on the right, by cropping, if you would feel you were losing anything important to your vision. If not, cropping it might also help contain that side of the photo a bit better.

 

Nice photo.

nice

Thanks Bilgo.

Thanks for your detailed critique Mona Chrome. I thought of cropping the little plant in the foreground. But I like this wide format. So I decided to leave it. Indeed this picture is rather soft. I did not use a tripod and a rather open lens. In my opinion not every photo has imperatively to be very sharp. Regards Rina

I definitely agree with you regarding focus, it just sometimes limits the size an image might be presented as it can fall apart as it gets larger, but then again, so can a sharp photo!

what i like about this image is that it wokrs well in the context of german romantic paintings of the beigning XIX century. similar treatment of light. i would not worry about the focus; they didn't. may be darkening the sky a bit, to continue the romantic metaphor?..

Lovely tones. The composition, appears to me, would have been improved with a step back and a slight turn to the left -- to include the full measure of the foreground and the border on the left. All the same, this is pleasing...