Kinda weird focus. It looks like Photoshop blur to me, but not quite. In any case, I din it distracting. I think part of the problem is that the focused area is right smack in the middle of the image. That's the same thing as putting your subject in the middle. You know about the "Rule-of-Thirds." And this is a good example of why. I find that my attention gets trapped in the middle of the image and I can't travel around and look at the details.
On the positive side, I like the subject. Barb wire fences are classic, meaningful, iconographic, North American photo subjects. I think it's a theme that can be expored indefinitely. And I think I like the overall scene in this image. Although, as I said, I am very distracted by the blur and the composition.
Hope that isn't too harsh and negative. But you've been here a while, I know you're serious, and I figured you could take it
Photo-John
No prob John, thanks for the comments. I posted it because I wanted the feedback. This is the original without the cropping (below). It was slight off-center compared to the original but I don't think it really made much difference. I tried to tighen up the crop.
I got a new lens and was playing with the depth of field and intentionally wanted the focus limited.
The rule of thirds point is well taken and I wanted to know if it was just me because I justified the upper part of the fence being in that upper third. I also know that is not a strick rule only a general rule.
I think critic is good in that sometime we look at a pic long enough and we have the original scene in mind that we can lose track of the impression it really makes on others.
BTW, that blur is not photoshop, it's the 2.8 lens at f-200mm...very short DOF.
Now that i'm rambling, I should have posted this in the forum critic.
