Ég held að þú hefðir átt að finna annað subject en vatn í DOF keppni því vatnið gæti alveg eins bara verið á mikilli hreyfingu en ekki úr focus. Skemmtileg mynd engu síður.
From the blue tones to the subject, a very cool image. However the choice of shutter speeds here is unfortunate. IMO, higher or lower would have helped the image, but which one depends on what you were trying to achieve.
A slower shutter speed to smooth out the water, removing the business of the background -- but also increasing the confusion between the motion blue and the shallow DOF. Or a faster shutter speed to stop the motion of the water and provide a solidness in the background and remove the conflict between blur and OOF, but at th expense of adding to what is already busy.
In any event, a much shallower DOF would have helped the image -- but would probably not been possible in the avialable light. As it is, there is little to seperate the in-focus subject from the OOF background, resulting in a competition for my attention. That competition between the two is, IMO, why this image finished squarly in the middle of the pack. It holds my attention, and thus gets the longer view desired, but fails to do anything with that attention once acquired.
I see that you picked some of the ice as your focal point. I'm left wondering, why this piece of ice? Why not the water or a different piece of ice? Essentially, I don't know the why of this image. It is called creek but there is not enough of the creek for me to 'grab' on to. You have fulfilled the short depth of field challenge and the image is technically sound but I don't think much was accomplished beyond that. 6 - good luck in the challenge!
Very fresh scene - great movement and choice of focus. Nature delivers the wonders as usual - you are but a player briefly on-screen. You are though a quality extra in the stop-motion adaptation.
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