Very inspirational very one of your captures are just jaw dropping I look at my captures of Ruby Beach and Second Beach then look at yours of the same location as say to myself god I wish I was that gifted.
Fantastic series Marc. As has been said before your photographs are truelty inspirational. I really get excited when I see you have posted a new series. Pretty much stop everything to study them.
i like #1, 2, 4, 5 the best! i feel the last 3 with the vertical comps are not very strong as the rest, but that's just me. lighting is excellent in all of these!
#1,2 the aspens, and the last 2 are my favorites here. I love how you have the ground basically glowing with light in the first one. And the Aspen shot, as others have mentioned, just the array of color in it is really special. Then in #9, I love the fall leaves on the foreground rock and the awesome color in the clouds.
The 2 for me that don't make the usual Marc Adamus grade is #4 and 6. Even with using the reverse grad in #4, I think the mountains are too bright and feel overexposed, losing that the glowing light quality you are so after. And in #6, the B&W conversion is top notch, but the composition just leaves me asking what am I looking at...
Great work here as usual, thanks for sharing with us your journey, and a few of your tips on how you got there. Knowing whether you used a reverse grad, or a 2 stop grad ND, etc, is really helpful.
Holy crapballs is about my expression. I actually opened up two windows so I could read and look simultaneously. You're work is another plateau that we all strive for.
2 is another one of my all time favorite images. The only one I am going to comment on is 4 as personally my eye wants to see a tad more contrast in the larches. But my very humble opinion.
Way to not kill yourself again and if you ever need a sherpa to carry bags...please let me know.
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that last one is incredible, definately different than the usual bread and butter shot u see of that lake
that night one is sweet also
and to think, that camera is obsolete!
may provide some useful insight on what I'm after. My images rely on a very painterly style of realism that enhances the feeling of depth and adds luminosity. Depth and luminosity are two of the biggest essentials lost on the photographic medium. Painters are some of my biggest inspirations. I love the way they can create beautiful, radiant landscapes with such a strong 3-D quality, but I love the exacting detail and accuracy rendered in a photograph. I strive for both.
Going into the technical details of how to do this in PS could be a couple chapters in a book, and still relatively useless to those who haven't developed an eye discerning enough to make the adjustments look right in the first place. It's somewhat of an innate ability, like many things in art, but it can be learned to some extent. It's not all about processing either. So much of it is identifying in which scenes you can record and develop that certain look that your after, using your vision of the finished image as a map throughout all steps of the process. My advice would be to not try to mimic a specific style so much (not saying that you are, of course) but to keep experimenting and building on what you know. The development of one's personal style is important. ...Show more →
Thanks Marc, that certainly helps. I think I'm getting to the point where I'm really starting to see those subtleties you're talking about, now it's just a question of finding out (and practicing) how to enhance them. I think the couple pointers in that thread should get me started
I completely agree that developing a personal style is critical, and every time I take a picture, or choose not to, I'm getting a better understanding what what my style is.
Thanks for the compliment, I certainly try to take every spare moment I can get to go out into the wild!
These are wonderful. They have a kind of fairy tale look to them, which it sounds like is what you were after. You've certainly accomplished that and more! These are stunning!
Off the hook! Glacier is our favorite haunt during August. Can never get up there during the fall color because of teaching schedule. Maybe I will have to move North after all.
Jon
Oh man Marc, great set. 1, 2 & 9 are my favorites. 9 is so crisp and clear, the light really shines. 8 is great as well, except the little cloud at the base of the peak really grabs my attention. I thought it was some crazy arch at first. I might tone that down just a bit; my eye keeps getting stuck on it. I'd say 3 is definitely the weakest (though it'll probably sell real well ) 10 I'd say is cliche, but really, this transcends that. Congrats on another fantastic trip!
Needless to say that these are absolutely outstanding images, again! I love every single one of them. Your vision never fails to amaze me.
Thanks for so generously sharing the info on each photo and more on photo.net.
Ute
