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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: David Eckels on April 05, 2013, 11:35:59 am

Title: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: David Eckels on April 05, 2013, 11:35:59 am

Adjusted in LR, SEP2 Neutral for conversion.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: nemo295 on April 05, 2013, 01:06:59 pm

This image doesn't work for me. The foreground is underexposed and uninteresting. The tonal values of the sky are nice, but it's limited to the lower and mid values everywhere else. Except for the sky, the scene looks like an expanse of middle greys to me.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: cjogo on April 05, 2013, 01:20:18 pm

Tighter ...> The clouds are there > the rock form is majestic ..Move In  ;)

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: RSL on April 05, 2013, 03:33:41 pm

I don't agree. Looser, and get the arches farther to the right so there's a sweeping diagonal from the upper right of the picture down to the lower left. I can't see what's to the left, but maybe there's a slope over there that'll carry the diagonal even farther.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: wolfnowl on April 05, 2013, 04:41:24 pm

One or the other, I agree, but unless the OP has already cropped this image, then I don't imagine even Content Aware Fill can fill in that much detail, so for this image I'd try moving in tighter.

Mike.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: Harald L on April 06, 2013, 11:16:45 am

Even in B/W this picture tells a story to me. My first thoughts: John Ford is sitting in his famous chair behind the camera, John Wayne is waiting in the left, outside the picture and will ride along in a few moments...

I like pictures which are inspiring me to day-dream a little bit.

Strangely enough, a color picture wouldn't do that.

Harald

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: francois on April 06, 2013, 11:35:34 am

Quote from: Harlem22 on April 06, 2013, 11:16:45 am

…Strangely enough, a color picture wouldn't do that.

Harald

Color photos rarely have this timeless look.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: Harald L on April 06, 2013, 01:09:48 pm

Quote from: francois on April 06, 2013, 11:35:34 am

Color photos rarely have this timeless look.

Perhaps because the missing information engages our brain so we start to think about.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: luxborealis on April 08, 2013, 08:30:59 pm

Definitely "looser" on the top as the top of the rock almost meets the edge cutting off the the feeling of this "soaringly-big" edifice. to my eyes, anyway, the bottom third including the foreground shrubbery that's been cut off could be eliminated in favour of more sky - any chance of you having made another image along those lines?

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: David Eckels on April 10, 2013, 09:11:57 am

Thanks for the comments! Just got back into town and will digest these.

Title: Re: B/W rendering, Arches, Moab Utah
Post by: David Eckels on April 10, 2013, 06:20:24 pm

Best I can do with cropping and moving closer and repositioning. BTW, this is a combined as metered and +2 HDR merge, processed in LR. Hopefully the rendering is "acceptable." Appreciate the feedback as always.