Hello everyone,

I would truly appreciate your thoughts on this photograph. I'm trying to understand what works visually and emotionally, and more importantly — what could be improved.

Do you think the composition, color tones, or lighting could be enhanced in any way?

Also, I'm considering converting this image to black and white. In your opinion, would that add to the mood and storytelling, or would it take away from its impact?

Any constructive feedback — whether artistic or technical — is more than welcome. Thank you in

advance!

Hello Valentin

Thank you for sharing your Training the Mind photo with us. It's an interesting capture of the moment and for me it's well composed. I do feel that the red is rather strong and distracts us from the figure, and before I read your comments I was wondering about converting to black and white. As well as a black and white conversion I'm also posting an edit with a slightly subdued red tone where I have also cropped the right side and the lower frame a little.

Good light, Elizabeth

Hello, Valentine

Welcome and thank you for sharing your image with us. My friend Elizabeth gave us an idea how your image would look in black and white. Thanks for her valuable input. Looking at your image. I can say that the composition is not bad, but it could be better. Especially the bottom 1/3 could be adjusted to the edge of the platform the man is walking on the rope. I also think that the red fence catches the viewers are but I tried to convert its color with color range adjustment in Photoshop and it did that change the effect much. I think that if your image did not good in  the curation, it might not have attracted  much attention. An image does not  have to be published to mark it as good. It is quite fine. I recently have an image rejected that startled me as well. Yet I still love it and would not change it. I wish you good light...Cicek

 Thank you for the feedback! I decided to convert the image to black and white, and I think it looks much better now. I'll also check my computer to see if I have any stronger compositions — I remember taking around 20 shots with different angles.