Meta: This is a lightly-edited, blog-ified version of this X thread.

1/8

This is a terrible goose picture because the geese are confined to the bottom right corner, but it’s an okay photo in sum. Too busy though, it will be much better with some cropping.

2/8

I like the symmetry in this photo. The two geese in the front are facing the same way and look almost the same, which gives it a nice surreality. I suspect it will look much better after cropping out the top part because right now the light grabs attention away from the geese.

3/8

Good subject but it’s out-of-focus and blurry :^(

4/8

I like this one quite a bit, but it’s overexposed. I think this will look much better after adjusting the brightness.

5/8

This is an odd image, it feels like two images spliced together, but I do like it quite a bit. It’s also overexposed though, and I think cropping out some of the places in which the branches are overexposed will make it better.

6/8

Almost great, it’s just slightly out of focus. Additionally, cropping out the tree on the very left will make it much better.

7/8

Too far away from the geese.

8/8

Better in terms of photographer (Amitav) positioning, but blurry and out of focus.

9/8

#1 cropped. I like this quite a bit.

10/8

#2 cropped. It feels better, but not much better.

11/8

#4 cropped, I decided cropping looked better than tweaking the brightness. Ideally I would crop out the top geese and tree entirely, but the image felt too short, as if you would bump your head on the top of it.

12/8

#5 cropped. I like it a lot.

13/8

#6 cropped. I like it quite a bit, but it would be ten times better if the focus wasn’t so bad.