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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on April 21, 2014, 03:19:45 pm

Title: rocks and sky
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 21, 2014, 03:19:45 pm
Comments welcome, as usual.

Jeremy
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 21, 2014, 03:41:03 pm
Too much Clarity (?) for me. The distant mountain shade of blue also kind of too much?
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: RSL on April 21, 2014, 04:30:14 pm
+1
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: francois on April 22, 2014, 06:26:43 am
Too much Clarity (?) for me. The distant mountain shade of blue also kind of too much?

Exactly… but I like the framing a lot.
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 22, 2014, 03:02:25 pm
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
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: seamus finn on April 22, 2014, 03:38:32 pm
Lurid is a word that springs to mind.
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: Bruce Cox on April 22, 2014, 05:55:36 pm
I wasn't there, but this looks better to me.
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 22, 2014, 07:25:04 pm
I like Bruce's variant.
Title: Re: rocks and sky
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 23, 2014, 04:13:45 am
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