Two images from the archives; I'm looking for feedback before I send them off to be printed. The first is from Bryce in the summer of 2010; light and clouds from a summer sunrise and rainstorm. Also available larger.
On the first one, you might consider darkening the left side of the sky and, to a lesser extent, the right side. As it is, the middle of the sky is darker, which could make the print a little less impactful.
I'm not sure if there's much I'd change on the 2nd one, but to be honest the photo doesn't do too much for me, especially compared to some of your other images. The light is good but not great and the foreground doesn't quite grab my attention.
And just to let you know, there is a way to enable color management in chrome, detailed at:
Mark, to be honest, the 1st image doesn't do that much for me. Is the subject Bryce Canyon or is it the sun on the horizon? The dramatic sky on the right side is what draws my eye, but it's such a small part of the entire image. Just on a hunch, why don't you see what a 10 wide by 8 high crop from the right edge looks like?
I agree with Grant's keen observation of the Bryce image. Very beautiful and dramatic scene!
Colors look fine in IE9.
I have to agree with him on #2 (&3 ) , especially when it apperas right after that excellent Bryce image.
Hi Mark, I love the pano idea for Bryce. In my opinion it's the best way to shoot that scene, although I do like zoom shots of the hoodoos. I think you had really nice conditions and you captured it perfect. Your processing is spot on too. My only nit pick is I wish there was more hoodoo action and a bit less sky. It reminds me of a few times I've been out in the field and had the ultimate conditions and forgot about what I was really there for. So it's a comp thing for me. I still think its a keeper. BTW, we need to hook up again this season.
Apologies about the double-posting of the Zion image; I swear it didn't do that last night when I was posting...
I agree that the Zion image isn't as good; it's a personal print. I'm about to get married in that spot (!) in a few weeks and wanted to make some smaller prints for the guests. For all the time I've spent at Zion, I don't have anything from there that I consider fully worthy of the location, but that's the best I have so far, especially given the duplication of the position/location.
Grant and John, here's another of the Bryce image with some subtle tweaks. Thanks for the input.
Kane, you're right -- at the time, I was just starting to get heavily into pano's, so I wasn't as careful with composition as I would be today. At the time, I was just thinking "please let me not screw this up", trying to capture this amazing sky over Bryce. I remember hearing the rain on the tent when the alarm went off that morning and dreading heading out to get wet. It proved worth it, though. And yes, it would be good to meet up again. I'm just finishing up teaching and trying to pin down my summer schedule. Some of it depends whether I can get a passport quickly, but I'll definitely be around the southwest for monsoon season, and up in the Wind River Mountains. I've got my eye on a scramble in Zion that should pay off, and then some alpine stuff, too, I hope.
Your adjustments look good, Mark.I'm sure when this is printed larger, the landscape itself will be much more emphasized.
Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials!!
When a comp is half landscape, half sky it usually doesn't work for me. However your Bryce shot is an exception. We want to see hoodoos but it would have been a shame to not include the pink glow in the clouds to the upper right. I think you made the right choice in putting this image together and it will look good printed large.
What I like about the Zion image is that it's an angle we rarely see from there and it has some pretty darned good light.
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10 replies(I will say that the shots look a little garish in google Chrome, which is not a profile-compliant browser.)
Thanks for any input.
I'm not sure if there's much I'd change on the 2nd one, but to be honest the photo doesn't do too much for me, especially compared to some of your other images. The light is good but not great and the foreground doesn't quite grab my attention.
And just to let you know, there is a way to enable color management in chrome, detailed at:
http://www.binaryturf.com/enable-color-management-google-chrome/
I've compared it to Firefox and the images look the same.
Colors look fine in IE9.
I have to agree with him on #2 (&3
Kane
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I agree that the Zion image isn't as good; it's a personal print. I'm about to get married in that spot (!) in a few weeks and wanted to make some smaller prints for the guests. For all the time I've spent at Zion, I don't have anything from there that I consider fully worthy of the location, but that's the best I have so far, especially given the duplication of the position/location.
Grant and John, here's another of the Bryce image with some subtle tweaks. Thanks for the input.
Kane, you're right -- at the time, I was just starting to get heavily into pano's, so I wasn't as careful with composition as I would be today. At the time, I was just thinking "please let me not screw this up", trying to capture this amazing sky over Bryce. I remember hearing the rain on the tent when the alarm went off that morning and dreading heading out to get wet. It proved worth it, though.
Thanks for the comments.
Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials!!
What I like about the Zion image is that it's an angle we rarely see from there and it has some pretty darned good light.
Congrats on your upcoming wedding.