First, congratulations on entering your first challenge and achieving a very, very good score. Second, I have to compliment you on your choice of camera. And now, on to your challenge entry. I scored this one a 7 because I felt it was a strong subject choice for the challenge and that you executed your idea very well. I've never shot infrared and have seen very few of these types of images but if you scan through the challenge archives, you will see that infrared images are not the norm at DPC. Comparing your entry to some of the other infrared images submitted in other challenges, your image doesn't have nearly as much contrast as the higher scoring images. I think if you could have made the leaves look a little whiter, it would have met the infrared expectations of the general DPC population a bit more. Is that possible in this image without blowing out the sky? If not, then shooting during a different time of day may have produced a stronger infrared result.
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The viewpoint is very grand. The tree trunks come at all the right points around the rectangle. It's a clasic composition. But the IR does not add much, IMO. I wonder what an original colour version would look like, taken from a tripod at various speeds.
I love this...I thought I would see heaps of these kind of shots in this challenge, and there are a few, but yours is one that really stands out. One of the best...love the atmosphere of this, well done
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