In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful texture and color study of a rusted door on an abandoned building and discusses:

- working aperture relative to depth of field and overall image sharpness

-  the potential visual power of working with complimentary color pairs

- simplifying and containing color by presenting colors as shapes and shapes as colors

- digitally gardening small high contrast areas of the image that don’t contribute to the message of the photograph

- using the curves adjustment layer to manage value and contrast and making subtle local changes by painting on the layer mask with 0% hardness brushes at very low opacities