The Snowy Range

The summer is quickly passing and with fly fishing guide season winding down. I have been able to frequent the forum more often and have time to make more comments. During the summer it was tooooo crazy and often too tired. Although I did lurk alot :) You guys are still doing awesome work. I'm always amazed at the quality and expertise of you guys on the forum.

I made a trip to the Snowy Range a few weeks ago and got out of my box a little. Tried a little Landscape work. It's not as epic as the work on the forum but wanted to share and hopefully learn what I can do to improve in this area.

Keep in mind it's afternoon with one shot being late afternoon. I only have one polarizer. Having said that I can see some things I need to work on after having put them on the computer and processed them.

I wanted to get some expert opinions from you all however and learn as much as I can.

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Lynn, your compositions are nice looking, but to my eye the images seem a bit oversaturated.

I think the compositions are pretty good as well, the saturation is a taste thing and I think it works fine in #1. I like #4 best, very nice job on that one.

These are so small that it's really hard for me to comment accurately.
Remember, you're allowed 800 px. on the long edge (300kb limit).

John--repost--I did the 800px

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Thanks for the comments Paul and Howard.

I get comments on undersaturated and oversaturated. Really not sure on what side to error on at this point. I do appreciate the comment though and always good to keep me thinking. I know I still need to work on the image and post processing.

thanks again

John I hope you come back and comment again and would really love others thoughts.

Lynn

Much better, Lynn...thanks!
The first is my favorite. Very nicely composed, and I like the kisses of light throughout.
I prefer #3 over #2 as it's less 'busy' and focuses on the best parts of the scene (water and stone). I like the light better, as well.
I like the low angle of #4, but the light is a bit harsh.
All in all, a pretty good series all things considered. Much more thoughtful work than from a 'weekend warrior'.

You say, "..I can see some things I need to work on..". I would be interested to know what those things are.
Also, you say, " I only have one polarizer.". Hey, me too! What are we missing?

I also like that first repost the best. It has a really good comp, nice light, and the processing looks good. The others appear oversaturated and too much contrast, but that's just on my dinosaur of a monitor.

Thanks guys on the comments and info. I will watch on the sats and contrast in the post processing.

John--good questions--and lengthy discussion some time. I do appreciate the feedback and encouragement. :)

Lynn, the reposts are certainly much easier to see with my so so eyes I actually like the comp in the first one best with 3 right behind. I do agree they look a touch over-saturated also. I find when I am learning something with processing I always have a tendency to under do it in the beginning, then over do it and finally settle on something that works...that has just been my personal learning experience.

Very nice series. I like the first and third re-posts.

I don't remember who said it, but (I'm paraphrasing) process your photos to satisfy yourself, unless you are being paid by a client to produce photos that need to be depicted as close to reality as possible.