River Dance

I forgot to mention, as I am forced to process on a laptop I would greatly appreciate any constructive criticism regarding this image.

Andrew:

A spectacular sunset. My daughter has made it down to Patagonia for a number of climbing and ski trips. Certainly a place of the big weather! My personal tastes run toward a little less saturation as I feel the popular style is running somewhat toward a garishness. Maybe the subtile difference between effective makeup and tartishness. Solely my preference and not mainstream.

I wish you a great season, it will be a time you always treasure. I was privileged to live in a remote area of Alaska for a number of years, your time there is quite special. As to the laptop, I have had for similar reasons done much photo work with them and it shouldn't slow you down at all. Looking forward to many more images! Thanks for sharing.

Regards: Tom

Tom, I certainly like to create an accurate looking image. I hoped this looked as realistic as possible, the colors that evening were amazing, shortly later the sky was much redder, if it's over saturated then it's an error in my screen calibration.

If this were mine,( I mean if only this were mine), I might nudge the shadows a tiny bit, but very minor. I have no problems with the saturation, but I would also think about taking a slight amount from the top, to just above the main cloud. There is something about the space above the cloud that wants to pull my eye. What a totally awesome place to spend a year, most excellent.

Saturation looks good to me, sunsets can be very intense after all! A gorgeous view anyway, what a sight. I do think I would crop just below the orange "bow" in the sky, as the part above that seems a bit distracting to me. Other than that, this is spot on! Good luck with your photographic expedition and keep the Patagonia-pics coming please!

This is lovely. I agree with the suggestion to crop from the top as it brings the mountains more into play and they are spectacular. sounds like quite an adventure. enjoy

Andrew, this is a great looking sunset with the stream and reflections adding some fine interest in the foreground. While I can see cropping the top for more focus on the colors, I'm fine with the darkness up there as it shows a more extended environmental view. Getting accurate colors on a laptop is challenging. You need at least a dim room and then you want the reflection of your eyes centered in the screen. That sets your viewing angle so that you see the calibrated colors (assuming that you've calibrated your laptop). It's amazing how quickly laptop colors and brightness change as you move your eyes away from that centered, perpendicular position.

Magnificent landscape. The S curve river works well taking us from the close river all the way back to those incredible peaks. Interest is maintained through this entire visual journey. I like the sky as is without any cropping. On my monitor the land looks a little too dark. A slight curve adjustment for the darks for the land just below the range of peaks could possibly bring added interest by exposing more details.

Gary I appreciate your suggestion, I'm not a big fan on cropping unless it's a scaled crop, i.e. taking an equal amount of the side. I hear what you say though. I will look through the many other images I have on file for one that has less gap. Also I'm taking in what you say about the shadows.

Mark Seaver, Thanks I have calibrated my laptop with the Spyder 4. It's as good as I can get it, it would be great to have a large monitor but I just couldn't bring one out to Patagonia with me.

A year?!?! Damn you are a lucky mofo. Look forward to see what you come up with. Nice shot here :)

aF

beautiful image of a beautiful place. Nice leading line and great colors. I have taken some sunrise and sunset images that I desaturated because I knew it would look like I had boosted the saturation way up. You were the one there and this is a great image.

I have been wanting to go there forever, your photo has inspired me to start searching for a date! The light on the river is wonderfully subtle and sexy.



Rusty Childress
Phoenix, AZ
www.maineventimaging.com

Andrew: The sky is spectacular but really competes with the FG details. As much as I like the sky I can't see giving it almost 50% of the frame. I would definitely crop this to 4:5 or even more radically to 6:7. The stars of the show for me are the mountains and the wonderful reflected light in the river. I'd like them to occupy most of the frame. >=))>

Nice job Mr Waddington! Great light!. See you out there in a week! :)