Need some critique

Quenten · May 3, 2014

I like this photo but still there is something which i don't like in it, which my eyes can't read. Could be the colour could be the light, don't know exectaly.
Your help will be appreciated.

Raj_55555 · May 3, 2014

I feel the red is too vibrant as compared to the green of the field, but I could be wrong. But a beautiful photo indeed, I really like the low angle on this, with the big trees background.

limr · May 3, 2014

The light gradually changes from the left of the frame to the right. I wonder if this is bothering you? It doesn't look like a definitive sun burst - no rays or hot spot gradually fading. It almost looks like you started to go for a slightly matte, desaturated, dreamy look on the left, but then by the time you got to the right of the frame, you changed your mind and wanted vibrant colors, clear light, no "fog." So you end up with half the photo looking like it got one kind of processing, and the other half with different processing.

There's also a bit of a yellow-green tint to the left side sky and the right side sky is a brighter, clear blue.

Mind you, it's still a lovely picture and it took me several minutes of studying it to figure out what I was noticing. And someone else might notice something different.

AlanKlein · May 3, 2014

I agree with limr above. The colors and contrast become more washed out from right to left. That also draws the eye to the right of the picture unbalancing it. The fact that there's more flowers on the right adds to the unbalance. The picture is too 'heavy" on the right for these reasons.

Quenten · May 3, 2014

limr said:
The light gradually changes from the left of the frame to the right. I wonder if this is bothering you? It doesn't look like a definitive sun burst - no rays or hot spot gradually fading. It almost looks like you started to go for a slightly matte, desaturated, dreamy look on the left, but then by the time you got to the right of the frame, you changed your mind and wanted vibrant colors, clear light, no "fog." So you end up with half the photo looking like it got one kind of processing, and the other half with different processing.

There's also a bit of a yellow-green tint to the left side sky and the right side sky is a brighter, clear blue.

Mind you, it's still a lovely picture and it took me several minutes of studying it to figure out what I was noticing. And someone else might notice something different.

First of all thanks for ur comments, what i tried to create from the left hand side is some sort of rays of the sun which i think i didn't come very realistic as u correctly said. What i used is the gradient tool from colour to transparent. I have to look for something more realistic editing on photoshop to make it look better, thanks again.