Input asked for on my photo

I am pretty new to photography and would appreciate any input I could receive on my photograph of the Keeper of the Plains.
Thank You

i like it. did you try any with the camera in landscape (wide vs tall)?

putting the artwork and at the right 1/3 line might have produced something with a bit more interest.

Very nice

Chase216 wrote in post #17490285
I am pretty new to photography and would appreciate any input I could receive on my photograph of the Keeper of the Plains.
Thank You

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Beautiful and sentimental. There seems to be a weird noise, like trees and buildings below his knee on the left side. Also, what is you're aperture setting?

Nice concept but you seemed to have missed focus. The image is very soft. Also I don't know if you added the clouds in post but there is some ghosting going on.

Was the picture taken behind glass ?

There are no windows around the keeper. Here is one I did last year to show the setting.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/f6RR​bk

smaeda wrote in post #17491477
Nice concept but you seemed to have missed focus. The image is very soft. Also I don't know if you added the clouds in post but there is some ghosting going on.

same thinking...

cool idea, but it looks like some technical stuff was glossed over. as others noted there's noise, some weirdness in the clouds, and also some strange artifacts in the shadows of the clouds too.

cool pic though.

The concept is good, but it's poorly executed: it's soft, for starters. Now, whilst the softness can in some instances be acceptable, the ghosting already mentioned is not: I can see shadows of buildings and trees on the clouds in the lower left, betraying the picture as a fake of sorts.