Vallation

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 9, 20166,343 views12 comments

Spent a wonderful morning exploring some new empty country. Hopefully came back with a few keepers.

iso 100, 17-40mm @ 33mm, f/11, 1/30

I greatly appreciated your comments and critiques.

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Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Paula LeVay on August 9, 2016 at 3:34 PM

A fabulous sky draws your eye toward the strong line of eroding mesa. Love it in B & W.

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Comment posted by Ken Smith on August 9, 2016 at 4:05 PM

The comp, leading lines, lighting and processing in b/w makes the foreground seem to float up to the sky. This is special. Well done!

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on August 9, 2016 at 4:07 PM

Wonderful range in tones - the buttes have a silky smoothness to them. Low angle sun on the cliffs shows off the textures. Your processing of the image has brought out a 3-D feel to the sky.Not much to suggest from me on improving - looks great to me.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on August 9, 2016 at 5:32 PM

Looks awesome, Gary. Great sky and excellent formations. Nice and dramatic.

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Comment posted by Dan Kearl on August 9, 2016 at 8:30 PM

Great processing here, the clouds are a big plus, but whatever you are doing in PP is certainly working....

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Comment posted by Marylynne Diggs on August 9, 2016 at 11:50 PM

Wow. Fabulous...what more can I say? I agree with Harry on the 3d effect. Beautiful work!
ML

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 10, 2016 at 8:52 AM

Gary, the left to right eye movement here following both the monuments and those awesome clouds is is wonderful. Because of all the subtle tones in the buttes, I'm wondering how reducing the contrast in the top left of the sky would look. Love the 3D waffle pattern in the clouds.

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Comment posted by Dave Dillemuth on August 10, 2016 at 1:26 PM

Very nice, Gary. The cloud formations and framing really pull my eye through the frame. Processing looks great.

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Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on August 10, 2016 at 11:42 PM

I'd say you came back with at least one keeper. Interesting landscape, wonderful texture and great clouds really make this one sing. Great processing as well.

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Comment posted by Igor Hoveijn on August 11, 2016 at 4:30 PM

Very nice to see how this eroding ridge is accompanied or even counterpointed by the clouds both in direction and in 'crumbling'. Great spectrum of tones. I only would have liked to see a tiny bit more in the llc. But that is very minor, beautiful image.

Registered on November 2, 2015, 18 Posts, 192 Comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on August 12, 2016 at 6:18 PM

Wonderful b&w image, Gary. Excellent processing too and I'm just totally enjoying the larger view. Nice work!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on August 15, 2016 at 1:02 PM

Amazing sky Gary. It really does give the image a 3D appearance. Wonderful tones and textures on the buttes.

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