Tooele Valley Morning (Utah)

Just wanted to share a couple of images that are very close to home.

#1 Nice sunrise light over the Oquirrh Mts.

#2 Moonset over Pockets Fold in the Stansbury Mts. This is about a 50% crop just to try and get the moon looking huge. It was originally shot at 450mm

Also, when I post an image they seem to lack the punch as seen on my home monitor. Is is because of compression to save for the web? Thanks for looking. C&C welcome.

They both rock, but that is one fine moon shot!

Awesome colors in the clouds, Jeff. I have to agree with Mr Caudle, that is a really great shot of the moon!

Both nice, but that moon shot just bowled me over. Nice work!
As far as the images looking different, you might have a look at Marc Adamus' web sharpening technique. I'm assuming that you convert to sRGB for the color space.
http://pacificnw.naturephotographers.net/tips/photoshop.htm

Very cool moon shot!
sRGB and Jpeg compression can rob subtle detail from web posts. But if you have a good looking master, the web version will usually be OK. Be sure to sharpen for the web.

Very nice Jeff! Love that big ol moon!
John

Great shots! If you used the save for web option, all sorts of things are going on in the background; all with intent of minimizing the size of the file. As I understand it, this also means reducing the color space to the old VGA standard, 256 colors. This would explain the loss of punch in your pictures. I also understand that it strips off the EXIF information, again, to keep the file size small. Not so good if you are using the EXIF information to records your information with the intent of making the file easier to trace in the event of theft.

I would try making sure that you had converted to sRGB and flattened the layers before making the conversion to JPEG. If you do a straight save to JPEG, you have some control of the size of the file and you have the full sRGB color space imbedded in the picture. Good luck!

Those are both fine shots. The cloud formation is very cool in the first shot and the moon in the second is very cool in the way it fades out to blue.

As the others mentioned, if you tried to post an adobe RGB file, most browsers are not color space aware and just post the image in sRGB (which tends to make things look flat or dull).

Marc Adamus' sharpening technique is quite good, but you might also try just using USM after you've down sized your image to the web posting size. All of the resampling algorithms will cause you lose some sharpness (though the Adamus technique makes beneficial use of this).

Mel-

Those are great shots, especially the one with the Moon. Thanks for sharing.

I'm a big fan of that gigantic moon shot as well. It's perfectly nestled in that V groove.

I also love the moon image. Really like the color and the clouds in the first image as well.