Impressive and lovely scene, and a photograph that probably makes many of us want to visit. Since the photograph is so well received, I hope you won\'t mind if I point out (or, better, observe) a few tiny things that you might want to touch up just a bit as you wring as much beauty out of it as you can.
You have a couple of wisps of cloud sitting right along the upper margin of the sky. I would probably go ahead and clone those out, especially since we only see tiny bits of them and they don\'t connect to any other clouds in the scene.
Likewise, there are points of a few rocks intruding into the lower right margin from below. You could simply crop, but I\'m betting that you didn\'t want to lose that interesting bit of a wave near the bottom... so you might consider simply cloning them out.
I have a thought about that pink reflection on the water in the middle of the cascade. On one hand, it might seem precious to have such a reflection—in fact, I wonder if you increased its brightness and saturation a bit to bring it out? My reaction (and others may feel differently here) is that it is actually a bit of a distraction and I might consider toning it down and desaturating a bit. It is a colorful and intriguing bit of light, but it also tends to distract me a bit and when my distraction takes me there I find less than I might have hoped for.
The clouds are beautiful and impressive. To my eye there are two small things that I wonder about with them. First, the coloration seems a bit yellow to me. I\'m betting that this was warm light, but if a color adjustment was made to warm the light on the mountains, that might be even more effective if it didn\'t also warm the cloud color. And are there are a few spots in those clouds that look like they just might have been a bit blown out? If so, you could tone just those brightest highlights down a bit. And remember that, perhaps counterintuitively, too much brightness in the sky will take the eye away from the primary subject of the peaks. And speaking of the peaks, are the snow fields just a bit blown out? Again, a bit of beautiful detail in those snow fields might come back with some curves adjustments constrained to the brightest area.
But, after all of those fine-tuning ideas, this is a very impressive scene and photograph.
Take care,
Dan
Apr 29, 2014 at 07:16 PM
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