I think this is a great shot. Too bad I wasn't much into photography when I was there years ago....
I think the crop suggestion implied a bit off the bottom, not the clouds. I am ambivalent about this.
I am seeing maybe a little magenta color balance and might play with this some. Maybe also even out the brightness and contrast between the mountains and the reflection. Looks like you had a break in the clouds for the majority of the middle part of the mountains which makes it a bit too bright and without contrast for my tastes. With your fab camera, you should be able to recover all of this.
Just my 2 cents... I still think it is a great shot.
I would like to see a slight crop from the bottom of the image. I wouldn't take anything off the top because you have the nice clouds there. Overall, this is a fantastic image.
This is one of those places I refuse to believe exists until I see it myself -- it's just that beautiful.
I really like what you did with the white balance here as well. I'd maybe crop a bit of the bottom though. I can see that you are going for a straight-down-the-center comp here, which I like, but it subsequently leads to some dead space at the bottom.
All good suggestions but the white balance is shot as it was in the camera. When this image was taken, it was so dark that it was virtually impossible to focus and was just past total darkness resulting in the blue cast. Since it was stormy out that morning I left it as is.
Jul 17, 2014 at 06:53 PM
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If it was mine I would consider a slight relative straighten so that it feels straighter (feels tilted CW to me) then a slight crop off the left and a slight lower in saturation in PS Color Mode (so tones don't change) or a shift in white balance towards warmer (the intensity of blue I would reduce slightly). Just to see how it would react, I duplicated a layer in PS, put it in Color Mode and used the Camera Raw filter to make a grey part of the cloud neutral and it looked pretty darn good (on a JPEG - raw would be so much better). Blue is cool too though.
f/stop wrote:
thanks and cropping would have cut the clouds which are a great part of the interest.
How can such a statement be made when I neglected to state what crop I was envisioning?
The left edge is distracting, cropping there would eliminate that half peak and better center the main mountain, presenting it nicely. A bit off the top (just a bit) and bottom but not to remove reflections.
This is a beautiful pic and being so dark I'm guessing you already did a fair amount of PP work on presenting this. Like others I think there are still some minor tweaks and crops to make this even better. I'm surprised at how much better I can make some of my pics look a year or two down the road when I can take more time and a fresh look at it all.
My only question is why f/16? I know you wanted long exposure for the clouds but in my mind that puts you out of max IQ for the lens and into diffraction - and you do not need a max depth of field.
Dave
