Storm Over Black Hills

[David Eckels]

C&C welcome

[degrub]

A little hint of greenish would make it more ominous imo.

[John R]

I like this image quite a lot. What I would to try and improve is to see if you can create two different tone between the mountain ranges. I try to do that a lot when I convert to BW. It helps create depth and flow within the image. If it can be done and looks right.

JR

[Bob_B]

I like it too, but feel it needs more tonal variation, as John R. suggested. (Maybe in the  clouds as well?)

[David Eckels]

Something like this?
Thanks for the comments. I have a 10% cooling filter on it and tried to open up some of the layering in the mountains and sky. I will have to see what a green filter does.

[John R]

Not sure you got my meaning. I am referring strictly to the two mountain ridges. The way to lighten one of the ridges is to create a brightness-contrast mask and paint in one of the ridges as lighter (sort of like selecting and brightening the ridge.) You can try both alternately. But I am thinking the sky has many alternating bright and dark areas, so the bottom ridge should be lightened up. The resulting image should be mixed dark-light sky (as is), dark mid ridge, light bottom ridge. It will give the scene depth and give a sense of layers in the scene.

JR

[David Eckels]

Thanks, that's is what I thought you meant, John. I did lighten that foreground ridge and going any further, it ended up looking wrong. I could push it, of course, easier to push all of the hills than dodge one or the other. That foreground ridge has a bit more luminosity than the hills in the distance but not much. I will have to see how it prints.