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Thumb-up    from allegronontroppo/Michael (1,874) This user is a Premium Member Send mail to this user on April 15, 2012 11:48:34 AM CDT (10) Early critique

Your image has great clarity and sharpness. Overall, I think the composition is good but could be better. The main areas where I think you could improve this scene is by eliminating the large dark area at the bottom since it adds nothing to the image compositionally; there are no lines that lead the eye there and it's essentially wasted space. The tone of the scene is too muted and needs lightening (dodging) and possibly some burning in the super-bright areas to regain some detail there. I imagine that you reduced contrast overall since it looks like the play of light was extreme but in that process, a lot of the dramatic nature was lost. Maybe cropping from the lower right and eliminating most of the large dark area and some of the right-hand side of the frame might retain the balance between the dark areas in the lower left and upper right, but also reduce some of the negative space in the image.

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