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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Help with a composition at Christmas Meadows | |
sbeme wrote:
I am totally with Karen on the alternate crops of the first image.
However, I also am a fan of symmetry and the original crop does not bother me as an alternative. Nothing wrong with serene and beautiful.
Last year's image is overprocessed to my taste. Too much contrast, too much saturation, especially in the grasses and water.
Scott
Thanks Scott and I agree on the processing of last years image, I have changed my work flow a lot since then. That copy is from my FM archives. Do you think this years version is still over processed?
I also think my longer FL from this year works better than last years. In that case, I was trying to get all the color, but in the process, I diminish the mountain. One problem with these valleys that are leading to a mountain is that wider angle lenses tend to make the sides of the valley more prominent than the mountain.
Another thing I have noticed is that often the cloud color is not as intimately connected with the main subject as it needs to be. I have a Grand Canyon shot with fantastic clouds but way too much sky between the canyon edge and the color and it has been impossible for me to make that shot work.
There is an Oxbow Bend shot at the Landscape forum with the same issue. To get the color, they need to include too much sky.
Nobody said anything about the second image here. I sort of like it, but noticed I favored the sky over the water when I cropped. I wanted that bit of cloud at the top, the water that I cropped was pretty featureless.
Edited on Jun 26, 2014 at 04:07 PM · View previous versions
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