Mt. Saint Helen Haze

[maddogmurph]

So I'm having trouble deciding whether full size, or 10x5 crop, or 15x5 crop suits this photo best.  Opinions/feedback?

[KMRennie]

10 by 5 for me.
Ken

[spidermike]

I prefer the proportions of #2 but in #3 I like the way the hint of darker sky at the top emphasises the 'banding' in the sky to match the receding hills.
Overall #3

[mbaginy]

Difficult choice, but I believe I prefer the uncropped image.  I was about to vote for the third image, but found the bottom needs darkening a tad.  It could be, that the darker upper and lower portions of the uncropped image provides more depth overall, hence my preference.

Nice photo for sure!

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

All three work fine. My preference would be for shots that are more "grounded," so #3 and #1, in that order.

[louoates]

15x5 for me. This crop makes the tree line foreground more important as it reflects the shape of the hills behind. I find this crop helps draw my attention to the serrated tree tops as well. I don't find the wide swath of sky that interesting and it detracts from the nice shapes below.

[tom b]

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Four things:

I think Slobodan's preference for the foreground is correct.

There is too much light space above the horizon, if you can create a mask and compress the sky you will get a more dramatic image.

The sky seems to have too much magenta in it  I'm not too sure what palette I would use for the sky but cooler seems better to my eye.

The rendering of the image should be your major focus.

This is just a quick and dirty rendering of your low res image on my 11" MacBook Air. Good luck.

Cheers,

[mbaginy]

This is just a quick and dirty rendering of your low res image on my 11" MacBook Air. Good luck.

I like your rendition, Tom!

[Jeremy Roussak]

I think #2 works best. I find the colour of the upper part of the sky odd.

Jeremy

[Paulo Bizarro]

#3 for me.

[thierrylegros396]

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There is too much light space above the horizon, if you can create a mask and compress the sky you will get a more dramatic image.

How do you compress the sky?

Have A Nice Day.

Thierry

[tom b]

How do you compress the sky?

Have A Nice Day.

Thierry

Using Photoshop, Edit/transform.

Cheers,

[MattBurt]

I would take the third one and crop out the top half of the sky so the sky ends up being about 1/3 of the frame.
I also agree the sky is a little too purple but it's a nice image.

[polaris-14]

I like the purple sky, and tom_b has a really nice rendition of the image.