Whitman County Growers (Re-Post)

All comments welcome.

Excellent work!! Realy like the flowing lines of the Vibrant array of color. Outstanding lighting and contrast.... Well Composed... Beautiful Landscape! Well Done, Ian!

I love it! 7/7 anonymous

Wow!

great depth to this ian. the mixture of colour is also nicely captured.

Excellent ^^^ Warm regards

 

***Ali***

Beautiful

Judging from your other work, you seem to have kept the contrast slightly low in this one one purpose. There is good contrast only at the part of the landscape that is close to us, which is in fact, natural. It is also agreeable that the far away part can be somewhat misty. I still tend to think, however, that the middle part of the photo (before the pink hills start) could have been made a bit more contrasty. I do agree that a slight exaggeration in this operation can kill the intended mood completely.

What do you think?

I tend to agree with Bulent. The midscape (community and road) shows weaker blacks than the distant landscape, suggesting that the haze is probably pollution rather than atmospheric diffusion. The rest of this landscape is so poetic that I'd prefer a storybook quality to your village, rather than the prosaic quality it has now.
This shot is so good that I'd take the time and trouble to mask out my foreground and add a Levels adjustment layer, clipping the blacks a little (or Curves if I wanted to bring down the blues a bit). Simple enough to turn it on and off and then decide which I liked better, the reality or the on-a-clear-day version.

Very beautiful work!

Layers of color. Beautiful. Take care Ian 7/6a

Magnificent composition and lighting. Do you think the magentas are a bit strong at the top though?

The wheat is just now beginning to appear through the soil this week. Not too long before we start looking like this again. Ry

very beautiful colors...congrats

Thanks all!

 

Belunt, Charles, I can see what you guys are saying about the middle part. I will try a version with slightly more contrast in that mid-ground area. Expect re-post below tomorrow or Friday.

 

I will add that it is definitely not smog or other industrial pollution. But, it might have been wind-blown dust (it was quite windy) from the numerous unplanted fields or, more likely, it might have been low lying fog starting to form. There was a fair bit of mist and fog in the lower areas when I drove back to town that night.

 

Kah Kit, I don't find the magenta over the top. The soil was quite reddish and the light here is very golden I find the resulting colour quite acceptable. But, I tend to like magenta casts anyways, so maybe I'm not a good judge.

 

I'll play around with the contrast changes and then put this on NPN next week and see if anyone else mentions the magenta.

 

Everyone else, thanks again. Ryan, I wish I could come and see the new growth. It is quite a mix of grey and brown around here still.

Like a beautiful old painting Ian.

Amazing rich color tones, nice light control and great depth…….. My congrats.

 

A magic image. Wonderful capture and work. Best Regards.

Very well composed, Ian, and great light too. The town in the middle ground works very well compositionally and adds a lot of interest. Very nice work indeed!

Here is a version with more mid-ground contrast (plus a little extra top and bottom too – in order blend it naturally).

 

 

I like the original.

I like both!

The original for its natural beauty.

The edited for the better graphical display of lines and patterns.

The choice is the artist's :)

I like the version with extra contrast--it has a finished feel that the hazier original does not, and I no longer have the feeling that anything stands between me and the content.

I think Charles expressed exactly what I feel. In second it is like someone cleared my eyes, or maybe the air :) I feel just so close and in the middle of these fields. Original could be more natural for that place, but second version (by the way, did you add some sharpness to it too?) is just so appealing :) For me actually this wavy middle part and foreground are most beautiful and they go together better in second version. From that point of view, brightness on upper hills is kind of takes away attention from what I like in this image most :) Well, I guess I'm putting too much words about slight differences instead of enjoying whole thing ;)

Bravo! Excellent photograph and a pleasure to look at...RAY

I like the first version as there is a difference in the golden FG , as looking down to the middle and far BG. it is soft and very nice, for my taste the second version has the same strenght in FG middle and BG..... beautiful nature color palette and composition.