Taken on a hike earlier this week. My favorite part of this photo is the dramatic lighting on the path due to the evening light filtering through the trees.
I decided to tone the b/w image because I thought it gave the dirt a nice warmth to it.
Post Processing in GIMP included basic levels and sharpening and quite a bit of dodging and burning.
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Composition, focus and PP are nicely done. The lighting is really tough and it would have been nearly impossible not to have areas of blown highlight outside the path.
I could quickly tell this would be at the top of my 4.5-5.5 scale. I think the biggest issue simple pertains to what enough people considered "desolate". Perhaps the "nice warmth" you added with the duotone worked against you in this regard. I don't think it was a biggie though, but I'm not looking for "nice" in desolate...
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