enhanced by the light
by violeta

Comment by _eug:
**** Greeting from the Critique Club ****

Challenge
- Relevant to the Challenge? Yes, however the foreground lighting overpowers the backlighting effect. The best area to find the backlighting is in the top middle where the shaded flower contrasts nicely with the lamp light. This is how the whole image should look.

Compostion
- Good or Bad? How can it be fixed? I like the composition the flower up front fills a good portion of the image.
- Good use of Depth of Field? Yes. The light is nicely out-of-focus.
- Good focus? The focus as commentor mention is a little soft. I think it works, but I'd apply a little bit of Unsharp Mask in your editor.

Lighting
- Good use of light? As mention before the foreground over powers the image. Less light up front for this challenge.
- Good use of shadows? Yes Yes Yes. Beautiful.

Aesthetics/Artistic Appeal:
- Colors and Contrast. The lack of color is great. You can see a little camera noise, but it works for this image.
- Sharpness. Needs to be a little sharper.
- What is my reaction or feelings? It's a very strong image, and it's too bad that others didn't appreciate it more, but you had very heavy competetion in this challenge.

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by mycelium:
would've liked to see this with better focus and the figures farther in the distance. a wider angle might also have been appropriate, or a zoom from a greater distance.

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by judy c:
a little too blue

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by sherpet:
Not much of a road but what a place to go walking.....

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by Zigomar:
I like this shot a lot, it gives the impression of freedom, however those yellow-red marks on the rocks in front are a bit of distracting

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by treenode:
Wow, where is this?

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by riccardino:
Nice place. Unfortunately the light was not the best when you shot took this pic.

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by GrayGhost:
Nice idea and composition. Needs more DOF, might have to crank up ISO to avoid additional motion blur.

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by Alain:
Can we really call a trail a road? ;-) Don't worry, I'm not removing any points for that, I think this is a beautifull picture. Good Luck.

mountain road
by violeta

Comment by justpeachy742:
very cold tones on this one, i like the feel