Hello. I have submitted this photo and it has not been accepted, so I understand that it has little interest and / or obvious shortcomings that I am not aware of. And here I ask for your most sincere and crude opinion about it.

I do not put you in context because the intention is that the photo has interest by itself, if it is not the case tell me ;-)

It is made with the SIGMA SD14 camera and an 8mm Peleng.

Thanks for the effort to comment. Greetings.

Hi Josep and thank you for posting this fine image in " The Real Critique "

Good looking image Josep full of colour and happy dance 8mm wide angle lens that's some wide ange image complete with bendy horizon.

With all images in selection it all comes down to impact and appeal at the end of the day - Many many great images fall away it don't mean there is anything wrong with them - Just better images on the day went through.

Your image - It might be just me and my old eyes but your image looks on the tilt to me. So I tried to make it more on the level also a little burn here and there  using the burn tool with Opacity set at 20% - That's about it 

Looking I 'm still not sure it's straight I bet you had the same trouble Josep -

As a viewer looking Josep I feel I want to see faces - I can see what you are trying to do to get the whole dance in the shot - I want to see many mnay faces in full happy mode and the wide view has taken that away - Just my point of view - thank you for sharing..

Thanks Daniel. Just what I needed, a fresh and unbiased point of view. As for the tilt, I chose to keep much of Peleng’s character sacrificing stability.

Josep,

I like the photo for the beautiful light, exciting colours, and the wide-angle feeling of being right there in the celebration. 

As for the tilted horizon - there are two Photoshop tools that could make it more level without losing any of the picture area.  The first is the 'Warp' tool that's found in 'Edit>Transform>Warp'.  You need to make a Duplicate Layer first, then, with the Warp tool, pull the middle-left 'handle' upwards and the middle-right one down. 

A simpler solution is to use the 'Perspective Crop' tool.  Outline the entire image, then pull the top right corner up until the horizon is more level. 

When I first saw the photo I guessed that it was a customary festival or celebration of some kind.  It wasn't important to know which festival - or which country - because this is something we do all over the world in one form or another.  Human celebration.  Because I saw the theme as 'All around the World', I don't mind the curved horizon.  It makes the world seem smaller, and your subjects linking hands together help that theme along beautifully. 

All just my opinion, of course. Thanks very much for sharing your photo here.  It's delightfully fresh!  It's polar-opposite to the bleak- winter day here.

Steven, senior critic

. . . . . example of 'Perspective Crop' correction below

Thanks Steven. Your words are a balm for my doubts 🙂