*Hello from Sid and the Critique club*
An interesting image that contributes to the open challenge.
Thank you for your interesting comments that enable a fuller understanding of the scene before us, it brings home the senseless destruction and futility of war. Shooting at full aperture works well here to illustrate the endless rows of sacrificed lives that were lost. I like your composition that is using diagonals to help increase its dynamic appeal.
I think you could have improved the end result by getting much closer to the front rows of stones so that we could actually read some detail on one or two of the stones, in that way it makes it much more personal and increases its impact, you can now identify with an individual. You would probably have needed to use a smaller aperture, you would have raised the camera above the front stones so that you could include just the rows of stones without any other background scene but with a similar soft focus effect and again using stronger diagonals.
Apologies for the delay. Thanks for your submission, Sid |