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mseawell

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High Uintas
« on: July 04, 2016, 04:39:33 pm »

The mountains. When I'm there the days seem like moments and the months like days. I regain my inner balance as I observe the things hidden in plain sight, things we should never lose sight of. Like the clear mountain waters running wild through the land, skies that threaten a new rain and the sound of my breathing as I hike nature's labyrinth. Here I stand closer to creation than at any moment. The high uintas unleashed.
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2016, 04:18:50 am »

This one does not work for me. It looks oversharpened, and the white rocks somehow too "aggressive" in their tonality.

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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2016, 05:59:25 am »

Nice but not as magical as some other images you posted. I find it a bit flat in contrast…
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2016, 09:25:21 am »

Nice but not as magical as some other images you posted. I find it a bit flat in contrast…
I'm afraid I agree.
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2016, 10:03:17 am »

At first I couldn't decide whether the foreground was water or grass. I am afraid it is a candidate for re working.

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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2016, 12:54:50 pm »

I'm normally a member of your fan club, Mark, but this one doesn't work for me either. Perhaps you had to be there.

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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2016, 03:06:19 pm »

Well, I can find some depth in this photograph. It's not what you accept at the first glance but I can "feel" the place from it. (Never been there.)
This is a picture I could have framed somewhere behind my desk. Meditating for a while - sitting on those stones, feet in that cold water and observing clouds...

It could be also 3:2 without the bottom part.
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2016, 09:52:11 am »

I wonder what the colour version would have looked like - people may like that more. You have the advantage of being there so you already have a sense of the place that some of us find hard to sense/capture in the B&W.
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2016, 10:03:46 am »

There you go, Mark. Here we have the same bunch that often complains that certain landscapes pictures are not realistic enough, complaining here that this one is too realistic.

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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2016, 10:07:48 am »

I wonder what the colour version would have looked like - people may like that more. You have the advantage of being there so you already have a sense of the place that some of us find hard to sense/capture in the B&W.
As a big fan of B&W, and of Mark's B&W shots in particular, I have been thinking exactly the same thing.
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2016, 10:33:20 am »

There you go, Mark. Here we have the same bunch that often complains that certain landscapes pictures are not realistic enough, complaining here that this one is too realistic.

Ha ha! Well thanks to your comment Slobodan and Mr Biker, I re-examined the image several times. It is a good photo and conveys the isolation and a harsh aspect of nature. I can almost hear the noise that running water makes as it goes over the rocks in the stream.  It reminds me of a picture that I took in an isolated part of the Pacific Coast of British Columbia along a stream. I shot the picture in colour but I was the only one who liked it...my version was probably much more boring that what Mark has shown us. There are elements to Mark's picture that may affect people; the bare parts of dying trees, the (dead) tree trunk laying across the stream, the apparent lack of detail on the rocks. All of these elements adds to a sense of isolation and perhaps even...desolation. These could act as distracting elements or they could reinforce the realism of the photo (everyone is different so I cannot be certain). I wondered if the brightness/whiteness was a bit high? Pictures affect us in emotional ways and so people are reacting to what they see. For instance, the isolation conveyed by the photo could be a negative feature for some people. But it could also be a positive feature and as Biker suggests, give the viewer a sense of peacefulness and being part of nature. Despite their reactions, Mark is a great photographer and even the people who do not like the photo acknowledge his skill.
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Re: High Uintas
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2016, 12:01:04 pm »

I agree.  Not really a keeper.  Competent, but uninspiring. I live in an environment rife with images like this, so I might be biased.
I'd try cloning out the fallen birch, just to see if that helped. I might also go to work on the foreground to see if there was some more drama available there.


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