October Blues

I try to post a photo each season to show the beautiful changes in

the Arizona High Country seasons just as a reminder that Arizona is

more than deserts and cactus. Thanks for looking.

This is undeniably beautiful and well executed. How did you get such definition in this wonderful landscape?

Great lenses, Good film and good metering. They all work together to give you the results your seeking. Plus an awful lot of years of experiance. Thanks for you nice comments.

Well done. I love blue colours and the beautiful effect from the sky. V.A.

Why all blue? Sorry, didn't work at all for me. Making the sky and clouds blue simply lowest the contrast between them. There is nothing that stands out more than all white clouds, plus the lake is kind of murky, not a brilliant reflector any more.

 

I might have framed the picture differently, not including the trees on the left, maybe zooming in so the mountain is larger, making the reeds in the foreground go all the way across. Just crop on the left to see part of what I'm talking about.

 

 

A thought - no one would know this picture was taken in Arizona unless you tell them, so no shock value. If something that was associated as being in Arizona (cacti, rocks, sand?) could be included somewhere as a sharp contrast it would make an interesting future picture.

really i do not care what place exactly the photograph was shot

as it the location details are next to title

just trying to enhance the image

or often give it some depth it lack

opposite of that i just see here vast sky

above autumn landscape with some cold waters

and cloud generating mountains background

may be some different version of view including the trees on the left can add something to this view

but it is those 'may be's too easily suggested ;)

Hi Gary. I was just wandering through this folder and noticed a lot of comments about color correction. Do you calibrate your monitor?

It would help a lot, I think. Also, try reading these scanning tips by Ellis. They were very helpful to me and might be to you. Steps 4 and 5 are very important.

I color corrected this beautiful photo using Levels and the eyedropper gray point tool in CS3. It makes a big difference. Best regards--david

What you see is what comes out of the camera. I'm an old fashioned film photographer and don't even own a photo program. I guess I belong in a museum!! But thats how I like it.

Well, Gary, not really. What we see here was scanned, so it didn't come straight out of the camera. There was a scanner involved. So, the image was "enhanced" during the scanning process. It probably looks the same on your monitor as it does on the light table. That's great. But, it doesn't look that way to the rest of the world. It looks too blue. I hope you would agree that getting the color correct is not "enhancing" the photo. One of things I like about your work is that it is not enhanced as many others do, but one of the things I don't like is the quality of the scanning could be improved. Things are either too light (blown highlights on the monitor), too dark, or the color isn't correct. I think your work probably looks a LOT better in person than it does here on the web. I was in the same position a few years ago--my work looked good on the light table, but not as good on a computer monitor. Calibrating my monitor and profiling my scanner have helped tremendously. It could help your work too!