Green River Overlook

Here's another Green River Overlook image. An incredibly iconic place, I wanted a different perspective. Instead of the striking Soda Springs Canyon perspective, I used the beautiful lighting and clouds to capture the intimate details of the terrain further south.


This is a 3 image vertical stitch.


How’s the comp feel? I cropped the iconic Soda Springs canyon to keep the perspective.

Kane,

For me, this is very compelling. The mood you set is great, and conveys the scene nicely. I'm drawn to the rim of the canyon via the foreground rock, which IMO is not too much of an issue, although it may try a crop from the bottom to reduce some of its prominence.

I'm seeing one thing that is a little odd - and its along the canyon wall on the left edge - it appears that you have some 'falloff', or distortion in the rock faces. They tend to 'lean' towards the top left corner - not exactly a dealbreaker, but you may want to consider transforming the image a little to see if you can resolve it. At this small scale its hard to notice, but if it were a large print I think it would be far more noticeable. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Of course the clouds add some great drama to it all - this combo is rare, so I think you were quite lucky to see this come together!

Beautiful Image Kane, love the light.

Composition looks terrific to me. The shaded twisted canyons provide enough relief to keep that large area from being a 'blank page'.
Knowing what's further to the right sort of makes me want to see more, but I think you chose a good point for a crop. The foreground rock is just right, IMO.
And that light....wowza!! Sure is nice to see a unique point of view from this place. Well done!

Great image. You sure hit the light on that one.

There is such depth to this image that I feel I could jump off the rock and glide down into the canyon (with hang glider, of course)! Nicely done!

Great clouds and light

well i disagree with JM on the fg rock--but im rarely fond of big fg rocks, they usually seem distracting/unecessary to me. But i love the bg light here--awesome!

Great combo of the stormy looking clouds and golden light here Kane. Nice shot.

It's hard to argue with clouds and light like this. I'm on the fence about the foreground rock. Visually, it stops my eye, but there is so much beauty beyond that pulls my gaze past it, so in that sense it works.

I agree with Stan on the big rock. However, the light and comp overcome that small deficiency (in my mind) and makes for a great image.

To me the show is in the clouds and the lit rim. I seem to scroll-crop the rock out automatically.

I'd hang this one on my wall!! I would agree with what a couple others said on the rock though. I'd crop it to right where the shadow stops on the left.