woods

[Shane]

crop one

crop two

critique? does the natural border work better? any comments? thanks. from my first roll. im learning!

 

[LaFoto]

Well, the "natural border" might have been a cool concept in your mind, but it did not come out like you had hoped it would, technically, I'm afraid, for nothing in the second photo here is in focus. Just nothing.

And I am still debating if I like the narrow focus on that one tree trunk only and the rest of the woods out of focus - it makes me want to make sure I have put on my glasses this morning.

For the light/shadow situation inside woods given, you did well on the exposure. I know I used to struggle a lot with the filtered light and shadowed parts and used to get severely overexposed highlights all the time when I first went to photograph in the woods.