gritty, chunky layers

One of those abstract images from the Painted Hills. I like how the blue sky repeats the pattern set by muddy looking hills and the bit of life visible at the top. This does look awesome full sized as opposed to this small jpeg

1D2 with 70-200L at 70mm
ISO-100, f/32, 1/20 second

Cool, Ned! I think there is maybe too much of that yellow foreground, IMHO, a half inch off the bottom and right side would do it.

Ned, this is a great shot. The colors are super and the texture really grabs me as I view it. As Mark stated, you may consider a reduction from the bottom to eliminate a tad of the foreground. Nonetheless, this is a very appealling photo, great eye for this one!

Ned, I really like the light in this image. The contrasting color of the hills is quite nice. The composition is great. The small trees in the distance are great and the contrasting color of the blue sky gives it impact. Well done.

Thanks for the comments, guys.... I totally agree with the crop, and wanted to get some confirming views. There is also a landscape orientation I like as well, and I will try to get that posted in 24.

I woudn't have said this if others hadn't, it's such a minor nit.....but a side-crop would probably put the trees in a stronger position.....lovely work.

Ned,
this looks great. We talked about the crop while out there, didn't we...for art reasons, the crop is the way to go on this...

Ned,
Like this image for the layered color effect. Very nice. I have a question though. You shot this at 70mm with a zoom. Why didn't you zoom in a bit more and resolve the crop issue in camera? It didn't look as though the scene was going anywhere.
That would give you all of your mega pixels for the final image.

Jim,
Although your question is aimed at Ned, I hope you both dont mind me chiming in, as Ned and I spent a little time working this scene together (we need a floating heart emoticon). I think Ned did shoot that crop as well, but we kinda didn't want to lose the width on the scene. It was kind of a tie between heavier bottom, and centering the trees too much...I personally like the off center trees.

Yes. that is a good point Jim, and I didn't.... I flopped to a landscape perspective, and actually liked it more, and it helps a bunch with the foreground weighting.. I guess it is just one of those things that keeps me learning everytime I go out...

Thanks for your answer. I didn't know if there was any other reason, terrain, garbage, or such limiting you.

I like the image as is, but the crop idea would work as well. Good eye.

Select the crop tool and in the menu bar select "front image" to keep the crop at the same aspect ratio. It doesn't give you anymore pixels but it keeps it in the same aspect ratio.

Pretty cool Ned, I like it.

Looks pretty cool in small JPEG too, Ned!

Kevin

Thanks for the cropping tip, Mark.. I will give that tool a try...

Yeah, I tend to like the pano version better. This one would work great if there was something in the forground to break up the repeating pattern of the slope material. Love the colors in this.