like the rocks, good detail and exposure...you might have thought about losing the little bit of plant in the lower right corner, just seems lost and out of place. The sky color is GREAT but the focus on the supject tree appears a bit soft.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 4
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 7
How well does it meet the challenge: 8
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 6
You focus is a little soft and the sky is grainy/noisy. Neat Image would have worked well for the grain problem.
Really interesting subject and good composition and colors. The focus seems soft all over the whole picture, don't know if this was something you were trying for or not.
Reread rules, rescored shot, revised comment. Nice shot well framed with perhaps a bit too saturated a sky for my taste. I find the grass in the lower right distracting, but if you cropped it above that the rocks wouldn't work nearly as well.
Lots of compression artifacts distract me from fully enjoying this photo. It does look like you tried to do a soft focus and it would look very good without the excessive compression. The sky is a very deep blue and I like that.
Concept, framing, and use of the rule of thirds are all good in this image. The image quality is not good and that is a major distraction. The tree, your main subject, is not well focused and there appears to be noise in the sky background. I don't know if it is true for this case but a scene like this sometimes is best taken near sunrise of sunset to give it more vibrant lighting and dramatic shadows. The idea of this image is definitely good.
The softness of this, which I'm assuming is intentional, detracts from what is otherwise a pretty and interesting scene, in my opinion. I like the balance in this picture, but crisper edges against the sky would really have improved the overall appeal of the shot.
Excellent scene and crop. I say crop because the tree looks like it's showing the end of the resolution for your camera--so I am guessing you had to crop at the full resolution to get this wonderful composition here. The loss of clarity is one small price to pay, but you did this perfectly otherwise, it's a wonderful shot.
Thisi s an awesome shot but looks either over-processed or just not quite in focus. There's a bit too much blur, combined with a bit of noise in the blue. Great colours and subject though. - 7