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[Jeremy Roussak]

Thoughts?

Jeremy

[luxborealis]

Interesting. Very magenta.

[francois]

I like how the shadow seems to point to the boat's wake.

[PeterAit]

Is that the Colorado River in or near Canyonlands? I was out there last year and it sure looks familiar. The boat adds a great sense of scale.

[francois]

Is that the Colorado River in or near Canyonlands? I was out there last year and it sure looks familiar. The boat adds a great sense of scale.

I was not with Jeremy but it looks like it was taken from Dead Horse Point (near the Canyonlands as you rightly guessed).

[stamper]

I see two images in one here. The top half could stand alone as an image and also the bottom half? As it is it appears it is top heavy? The blue shadows seem to me a little saturated. I like the bottom half better. Overall an interesting image that draws your attention more than once.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I see two images in one here. The top half could stand alone as an image and also the bottom half? As it is it appears it is top heavy? The blue shadows seem to me a little saturated. I like the bottom half better. Overall an interesting image that draws your attention more than once.

I agree with Stamper. I liked the original but also felt a bit unsettled about it until I read Stamper's comments.

Here are my suggested croppings for top and bottom versions (sorry, Russ):

Eric

P.S. I also find the bottom version more interesting.

[RSL]

Arrrrggggg. . .!

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Compromise: printing it as a diptych?

As Henry Kissinger said, "Compromise is a solution that leaves both sides equally... unhappy." 

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thanks for the comments, all.

Here are my suggested croppings for top and bottom versions (sorry, Russ):

Eric, I have as you know a much more relaxed attitude to cropping than Russ and you and I usually find ourselves in agreement. But this time, I'll echo his comment: Arrrrggggg. . .! and add one of mine: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Your photographs are both interesting, but they're nowhere near what I was aiming for, as my title implied. I wanted a tiny boat, dwarfed by huge cliffs. Your upper crop removes the boat; and your lower, the scale. Your crops are a noble attempt to salvage my failure, if such it be. Sorry.

I was not with Jeremy but it looks like it was taken from Dead Horse Point (near the Canyonlands as you rightly guessed).

Spot on, François. It was a bit late in the morning for the best light, but I'd just been at Mesa Arch and I had to allow time for my hands to defrost.

Interesting. Very magenta.

Not on my screen. I'll recalibrate it when I get a chance. Easily fixed with LR's tone slider, if true, though. Stamper's point about the shadows might end up getting fixed at the same time.

Jeremy

[RSL]

Eric, I have as you know a much more relaxed attitude to cropping than Russ and you and I usually find ourselves in agreement. But this time, I'll echo his comment: Arrrrggggg. . .! and add one of mine: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Your photographs are both interesting, but they're nowhere near what I was aiming for, as my title implied. I wanted a tiny boat, dwarfed by huge cliffs. Your upper crop removes the boat; and your lower, the scale.

+1. The solitary boat threatened by the humungous cliffs is what the picture's about. If you remove either there's no story and no picture.

[Jeremy Roussak]

How about this? I've warmed it up a bit and lowered the magenta (Terry), removed some blue (stamper) and shifted the black point. It seems to have more punch.

Jeremy

[francois]

The shadows are much better - less blue. I didn't see any serious problem with magenta - but it may be my eyes or display…

[Iluvmycam]

IT is OK OP.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Better... it was too magenta, btw.