These are fabulous - don't remember seeing anything quite like these before. For me #2 has the slight edge due to the simplicity of the composition and the tones in the sky. The salt looks like it's aglow. Great stuff.
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on December 6, 2011 at 1:31 PM
I love the texture you've brought out in the salt.
The forground detail in #1 makes it my favorite.
Posted by Howard Cihak on December 6, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Jeff, thanks for a couple of beautiful images of something we all know about, but seldom see used as a landscape photo subject. I like the low to the ground (salt?) approach, but I think that one prominent mountain ought to be more prominent in the 2nd image. Perhaps something between the 1st and 2nd images in terms of the size of the mountain.
Posted by Todd Caudle on December 6, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Really nice, Jeff! That first one is the sort of thing I was hoping for when I was there this spring, but it didn't work out for me. Are those the Silver Island Range? The starkness of #2 is appealing, but I really like #1. The way you framed that round line in the salt really send the gaze towards the mountains, and it works well with the vignette.
Posted by Bill Bean on December 6, 2011 at 3:21 PM
Make mine Numero Uno. The texture in the salt is incredible in both but in #2 my eye keeps trying to make the itty bitty mountain bigger. Both are nice though.
Posted by Ken Wyatt on December 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Well, I'm afraid I'll have to give you a rather salty critique....I like 'em!
Posted by Bret Edge on December 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM
These are both amazing. I'm partial to the first one because the salt seems so luminous against the darker earth. Fabulous work!
Posted by Robert Park on December 6, 2011 at 9:06 PM
OH!
That's cool. I like the first ones dimensionality.
Posted by Doug Koepsel on December 6, 2011 at 9:21 PM
Jeff, I like the first for the sky, curved salt pattern in the foreground, and mountain on the horizon. Maybe correct the distortion if you wish.
Posted by Anne K. Rusk on December 6, 2011 at 9:53 PM
I'm loving #1! I like that you gave my eye something to travel towards with the mountain in the bg. Beautiful colors and glowing salt!
Posted by Jeff Hackett on December 6, 2011 at 10:05 PM
Thanks for the comments!
Howard and Bill - To make that mountain bigger in the second I would have had to walk a loooong ways, twenty miles round trip minimum.
Jackson - Yes, that is Silver Island.
Doug - I see the slight distortion as well. I corrected it in the second, and I have no explanation why I didn't in the first. If I print it I will most likely correct it.
Posted by Kane Engelbert on December 6, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Both are stunning. Boy that's one way to make a cloudless sky just perfect. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Stan Rose on December 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Nice! Both are winners
Posted by Kurt Bowman on December 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM
I like both a lot, but I actually like the simplicity of the second one better. the textures and colors are terrific in bot of these.
Posted by Joshua Hardin on December 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM
These rock. I like #1 a bit better because the mountain adds an additional element of visual interest to me, the clouds are more colorful and the curve of the salt in the low foreground really draws my eye into the scene.
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17 repliesHere's a couple from the Utah salt flats last evening. C&C if you want and thanks for looking!
The forground detail in #1 makes it my favorite.
That's cool. I like the first ones dimensionality.
Howard and Bill - To make that mountain bigger in the second I would have had to walk a loooong ways, twenty miles round trip minimum.
Jackson - Yes, that is Silver Island.
Doug - I see the slight distortion as well. I corrected it in the second, and I have no explanation why I didn't in the first. If I print it I will most likely correct it.