The Needles

Wow Stan
this is really amazing
Perfect

Great Shot!!!

Looks great to me, Stan!

Looks pretty majestic Stan - like a castle! The sky works great here - I like the how it glows in the centre. It gives the scene a magic touch. An image with great impact!

Very nice Stan. I like dramatic feel, the tones, and the details!

Well done my friend!

Fantastic mood Stan! I especially like how the sky is radiating around the needles. Excellent detail and tonal range.

Very dramatic and unusual Stan. You certainly have a knack for capturing of original images of often photographed places. If that's a trail coming in from the left - I'd consider cloning it out. I like this a lot. The web sharpness and tonalities are very strong.

Michael

Wow, the top 2/3 is about as good as it gets. In fact, I like a pano crop to right below that great dead tree on the left. Superb choice to backlight the needles for this conversion. That needle on the left leans a little hard, maybe a bit of perspective correction?

This works great for me . . . a bit spooky, very dramatic, very effective. I visited Chesler Park about 10 years ago and loved it. I'm surprised more photos from this location aren't posted on NPN.

Love this, Stan! Great work!

Fantastic Stan! The Needles are very imposing and the darkness adds to it. High thumbs up from me.

The sky and needles make a beautiful B&W composition. I would like the LRC a little bit lighter.

Looks pretty good. Black and White works nicely here. I'd consider small crop off the bottom to eliminate the two bushes on the bottom left.

Fantastic Stan! The back lighting is great!

Superb work, Stan.

pretty wild shot. Looks like need a little bit perspective correction if you care - but otherwise good as is

Well done Stan. As I've commented here many times I'd love to see more B&Ws posted (I'm getting ready to posted another of my own) and this is a good one. Darkening the sky and your angle on the needle gives it a gloomy castle-like look.

I really like this Stan and I like it even better with the bottom cropped off to just above the fg stone (which effectively removes the trail too). Super b/w subject!

Thanks folks, i was wondering if my intentional dark processing would work and it looks good so far...
I kind of like the lens distortion but ill try a correction and see how it looks. I didnt even notice the 'trail' until i read the comments--since there really isnt a trail here--its just a series of cairns marking the route. But i guess that part of the route got well-trodden...

:::KLUNK:::

"HEY, somebody want to hand me my jaw over there?!?"

Great shot buddy, you hit it. The tones are great, this needs to be printed huge with all grayscale ink in the tanks.

There are suggestions about cropping out the FG rock. I covered it up and to e a complete removal makes the scene feel unreachable. If you must crop (which I'm fine with it as is), I'd leave at least 30% of the FG rock visible. It would help anchor your position "in" the image as you view it, if that makes sense.

Any chance you'll be doing a downloadable PDF eBook on your B&W conversion process? Ian Plant does some things like that. Seriously, I'd spring for that one! Either that or I drive up your way and peek over your shoulder!

An epic shot if I ever saw one! Very medieval and gothic looking. Outstanding work.

The arrangement of the needles in the comp is fantastic, I love the strong triangle formed, with the pinnacle highlighted by the bright cloud. Wonderful image Stan! Only nit, the bright spot in the lower right is a tiny bit distracting.

This looks great, Stan. I think I prefer this to your last post. Loving the little bit of light from behind.

Brilliant, Stan. The needles look like massive cathedrals, and that sky is just awesome! B/W conversion is excellent as is the overall mood and presence that is just majestic. Wonderful shot!

Has the look of a medieval fortress at night, silhouetted by the rising moon. Absolutely awesome. Amazing how you transformed a midday image into something that really is epic.

Stan,

This is simply fantastic. Can't think of anything to nitpick (and I'm really good at that!) An impressive setting, glorious conditions and just a well crafted and captured image.

Lon

Great angle, great tonality, great drama - great shot, Stan.

The conversion is pretty much perfect imo....

Very dramatic and eyecatching!

Excellent wow-inducing B&W. I like this perspective- the needles appear to be piercing the sky in the most dramatic and forboding manner here. Very cool and slightly scary too.

It really has a cool fantastic feel to it! Your already great vision is growing with each new photo you show us, Stan! Superb!

Outsanding comp! It is a little too dark for my tastes, but I'm viewing it in a bright room right now. I'll look again after dark.

Very dramatic!

Amazing picture!

wow

VERY NICE B&W

Stan,
I like the processing with the little bit of vignetting in the sky. The comp is also nice with the flanking needles and the primary group in the middle. Nice detail too in the needles.

A very powerful composition.

Thanks for all the comments, folks!

Excellent, Stan. Reminds of Adamus' work.

Great shot, beautifully seen!