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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: mtnmanjc on February 07, 2009, 01:35:37 pm

Title: Ancient Giants - Armstrong Woods, CA
Post by: mtnmanjc on February 07, 2009, 01:35:37 pm

Hey Everyone,

Here is another image from northern California. We didn't have the time to trek up to the Redwoods National Park, but we took the time to go see the Armstrong Woods. This is a smaller park with a smaller grove of redwoods, but they were incredible and inspiring!!
Hope you like it!

Ancient Giants (http://mountain-man-photography.com/wordpress/?p=41)

Comments and Critics are greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Joel

Title: Ancient Giants - Armstrong Woods, CA
Post by: Robert Spoecker on February 07, 2009, 02:13:13 pm

Quote from: mtnmanjc

Hey Everyone,

Here is another image from northern California. We didn't have the time to trek up to the Redwoods National Park, but we took the time to go see the Armstrong Woods. This is a smaller park with a smaller grove of redwoods, but they were incredible and inspiring!!
Hope you like it!

Comments and Critics are greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Joel

Hi Joel,

Very nice picture. I lived in the Bay area for years and used to get up to the redwoods often but found that there is no photographic way to convey what they are. How do you photograph a tree hundreds of feet tall and with a girth that makes them a short hike to circumnavigate?

Title: Ancient Giants - Armstrong Woods, CA
Post by: dchew on February 07, 2009, 03:18:24 pm

Joel,

Nice image!  I wonder if the white balance could be warmer?

Dave Chew

Title: Ancient Giants - Armstrong Woods, CA
Post by: Josh-H on February 07, 2009, 05:18:53 pm

Quote from: dchew

Joel,

Nice image!  I wonder if the white balance could be warmer?

Dave Chew

Agreed - Lovely composition, but the white balance to me looks looks screwy and 'wrong' [if a white balance can actually be wrong!].

I would very much like to see this with a neutralised white balance, or warmer as the image is very well seen and composed and the current white balance detracts from the image to my eyes.

Title: Ancient Giants - Armstrong Woods, CA
Post by: mtnmanjc on February 08, 2009, 12:34:21 pm

Thanks guys, I'll mess with the white balance and see what I come up with.

Thanks!
Joel