rocks and sky

[Jeremy Roussak]

Comments welcome, as usual.

Jeremy

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Too much Clarity (?) for me. The distant mountain shade of blue also kind of too much?

[RSL]

+1

[francois]

Too much Clarity (?) for me. The distant mountain shade of blue also kind of too much?

Exactly… but I like the framing a lot.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Too much Clarity (?) for me. The distant mountain shade of blue also kind of too much?

Fair points: I've reduced the clarity a little (it's an HDR image, which perhaps explains why it looks as if it has too much). I've also reduced the saturation on the mountains: they really were that blue (in that I've not fiddled with the saturation at al), but I suppose it appears excessive.

Jeremy

[seamus finn]

Lurid is a word that springs to mind.

[Bruce Cox]

I wasn't there, but this looks better to me.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I like Bruce's variant.

[Jeremy Roussak]

I wasn't there, but this looks better to me.

I can see that aesthetically it might, but I have to say that it doesn't reflect my memories of the scene: it has a greenish hue, and the colours were pretty lurid, particularly as the sun rose. Brighter is good, though.

It was taken from the ledge in Arches NP from which one takes the classic shot of Turret Arch through the North Window. The ledge was crowded that morning and I was fairly late, so I didn't get far enough to the left to get a clean view; I'll post later what I did manage.

Jeremy