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 p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Printing Photos from Yosemite Valley [Please C&C] | |
Depending on how, and how well, you plan on lighting your prints, my guess would be that the top one might come out a bit too dark for pleasant viewing versus how you see it on your screen. The landscape is quite dim relative to the quite intense sky and prints often come out much darker than you might expect from viewing on screen, particularly if you are using an uncalibrated monitor with cranked up brightness to do your editing.
I would suggest, if possible, soft proofing it with an appropriate printer/paper profile for what your desired output is, and possibly even doing a small hard proof to check you are happy with it. I suspect you will find that brightening the shadowy landscape area of the image would be advantageous.
The bottom image feels a bit underexposed to me, even for screen viewing I would be adding around 0.3-0.5EVs to that image (I am viewing on a calibrated screen at 105cd/m2) and for print you might want to brighten it a little bit more as images never translate to paper as bright as you see them on screen (which is why soft and hard proofing is so important for best results.)
I do however argee with the above poster that the relatively thin strip of mist in image two is a bit distracting. Image one is a stellar shot, but for me would require some tweaking to make it translate well to a print displayed in an average home with average lighting.
I will disclaimer this by saying that dim prints are my pet peeve given I don't have gallery lighting in my home and I will often do two hard proofs to ensure everything is perfect before completing the final print job, as my first hard proof inevitably comes back with some imperfection I need to fix. Even your choice of paper can have a massive impact on how an image translates from screen to ink.
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