Morning

I've finally got my new computer/monitor all set up and calibrated correctly (I hope) so I'm starting the long overdue process of going through all my photos. These first post are from when I started getting serious so please bare with me until I get to my more recent work.

This is from four years back. There were numerous fires burning in the area that turned the sunrise alpen glow quite a different hue than usual. (at least from what I've seen the numerous times I've been up here, still haven't gotten a good sunrise or set in the summer though)

I ended up really liking the softness the smoke provided.


Any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated, really hoping I've gotten everything calibrated correctly.

This is a nice shot Jeremy. My critique would be that the background sky looks a little noisy. I would also clone or crop out the little black stuff coming into your mountains on the left.

Hmmmph, so you consider this your "not so good stuff"? Looks damn fine to me and colors look good too on my calibrated monitor. I really like the SS, light, comp and color only a fire can give I see a small dust bunny in the upper right sky

Looks great on my monitor. Very nice composition.

Nice color. LIke the sense of motion in the water.

Beautiful shot, Jeremy! I agree about the slight crop on the left, but otherwise this looks fantastic. I've seen a lot of that smoke light in Idaho, and this looks like a very nice rendition of it. If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious where this is (Beartooths?).

Lovely scene perfectly composed and 'developed'!

Beautiful effort. I agree with the other suggestions. The only other thing that I notice is a bit of a halo along the mountain ridges on the right side. Dialing back the processing a little may reduce that.

Thanks for all the suggestions, appreciate it.

Koveh, thanks for pointing out that branch, don't know how I missed that...I also forgot to mask out the sky when doing my web sharpening so that's probably the noise your seeing.

I'll have to clone out the dust bunnies as well.

That Halo is there in the original, I'm thinking it might have something to do with the smokey skies? I'll see if I can do something to reduce it though, thanks for the heads up.

This is Black Mountain in the Western Beartooth/Absaroka mountains.

The light is sublime, the color nice, and a good comp. Works for me with the little adjustments suggested.

Nice color.

Great to see some pics from you Jeremy! Looking forward to more of the hidden gems you've gotten in the Beartooths. I've always liked the creek coming out of Pine Creek Lake. Nice comp with great balance. I see a little bit of what I think is a branch protruding into the left side of the image, easy fix. Nice one!