Evening Falls.

One of my favorite places, I visit often in the summer. Took a couple backpacking trips here this last summer, was lucky enough to have witnessed these fantastic clouds this evening, I've never really seen anything like them before. I know there is a lot going on in this one, might be to much, especially with those clouds. Been staring at this way to long trying to get things right, not sure what looks correct anymore, so I'll probably be reposting this one as well.

Hope you guys don't mind me testing these out here before posting them over on ess.

Any critiques are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

looks a bit saturated, I'll have to take a fresh look at it tomorrow.

Man, I sure am diggin' your backcountry pics. The lit peak and clouds look too magenta to me, but that's it.

I also notice the magenta in the sky.
Fantastic composition and just enough light in the foreground.

Just re-calibrated my monitor and yikes that is pushing quite a bit of magenta up top. Just renewed my membership still can't upload new photos, I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks for the input, its greatly appreciated.

As has been noted the magenta cast is quite heavy. Fix that and you're going to have a KILLER photo. Where is this? Looks like an amazing location to visit/photograph/camp.

Wow! Pretty much what Bret said. What a amazing shot.

Such a strong comp! Also great conditions with the clouds. I like the contrast in the foreground area, but the middle ground and sky seems to be lacking in balance to the foreground. And a little color correction, but this one would be on my wall and hoping to be on others.

As others have noted, the feeling of depth in the image and interesting sky/peaks make this a fantastic image. I agree with Morris, correct the colors, print it large and hang it up on the wall.

Comp looks good. We'll wait for the repost.

Very dynamic. I'm ready to go backpacking.

Looks awesome! Id cut back on the magenta and brighten the sky slightly (just the blue portion), otherwise looks great.

Simply gorgeous! What a fine display of clouds.

"..but the middle ground and sky seems to be lacking in balance to the foreground.

I think that Morris nailed a concern I share. After you color correct the image, the shadowed areas get even brighter. If you're using Tony Kuyper's Luminosity Masks, try choosing 'Shadow Darks' and then changing the Blend mode of that layer from Normal to Multiply. Big difference!

Thanks for all your replies, I'm still getting a hand of processing correctly so your comments are incredibly useful. That first one is a testiment of why not to work on photos when your really tired and without a calibrated monitor.

Here's another version, any better? I seem to be having a hard time with this one.

and another.......

Yeah, that's better.
Part of the problem here is that you don't have a color space tagged onto the image.
There's a change when I open this in PS and tag it with the sRGB color space.

*EDIT*
I like your second one even better with the richer shadows.
Now you're cookin'!

Where would I go about doing this? Thanks a ton.

Edit: just noticed I accidently had uncheck the embed color space option on save for web.

Great image! Love the cloud formation and the motion in the water.

Like it alot, Jeremy. The third one is best for me. I can see why it's one of your favorite spots.

The third one is a pretty good mix. Nice work.

I went back and looked at this one again today as I was never really happy with any of the aboves. Used a friends newer/better monitor and made some adjustments, I think part of my problem was that I accidentally used two exposures that were not perfectly aligned the first go around and somehow I missed it. Anyhow I think this is much closer to what I was going for, probably will still need a color minor tweaks but I'm hoping its close. Thanks all for the help, I really appreciate it.