-20 In the Tetons

Partly sunny days have been hard to come by in the Tetons this winter. The morning was very cold, but that's what happens on cloudless days. I find the Tetons to be difficult to photograph. Finding a perspective that has an interesting foreground and middle ground to compete with the sublime Grand Teton, is hard, in my opinion. The teton Range is so different from the many excellent compositions that come out of the Colorado Rockies. I chose this view, on this day, because of the shadows cast across the Snow and the sparkles in the snow, adding interest in the foreground. I'm anxious to read your comments. Thanks in advance

The first image I desaturated the blue shadows across the snow. They were very blue. #2 is from the same area with blues as they came from the camera.

#3 is a Horizontal of the same view. I desaturated the blues a little on this one as well.

Thanks

Hey, I think you did pretty darned good considering the time of day, temps and blue sky conditions. I prefer #1, or #2 cropped up from the bottom almost to a square format.
I like the dappled light in the foreground and the trees that border the image.
These would also make pretty good b&w images.

These Unsharp Mask settings (Amount-20; Radius-50; Threshold-0) give these all a bit more clarity.

-20? Ugh. #1 is my favorite. I think these are all calling for B&W.

I think all of these work really well. I agree that they may work well as conversions, too. I do like the one with the blues a bit more than the first, but not by much.

Rohn--these are really nice, really capture the cold condiition on a bright sunny day. My 2 cents: IMO, the trees are unecessary here and the shots would have been much stronger without them. These shots are all about the great shadows in the fg snow, balanced with the distant hazy peaks in that bight sunlight--the trees just complicate the beautiful simplicity of that nice balance. Simpler is almost always better.

You chose a wonderful, foreground, and I like Stan's suggestion about losing the trees, however these are great with the trees as well.