Painted Hills

Good but not great. This is not up to the standards of your other recent images.

I find the vignette heavy and not useful in the composition. The foreground was probably the best you could manage as there isn't much to work with on the site, but it lets you down in the end. Plus, I find the mid-ground (the hills themselves) look a little low in contrast and don't really grab your eye. The distant hills catching the light seem more engaging.

As I said, you've posted some really strong images lately: build upon them. This is decent in all respects; but nothing stands out as particularly strong.

I hope this is taken as the constructive and encouraging comment it is intended to be. I realize I've been a bit harsh by PN standards.

Hi Ian,

Thanks for honest comments. I really appriciate them. When I said 'all comments welcome', I really mean it.

You are very right about vignette. I tried to correct in RAW, but some reason, cloud next to it getting efffected. Now after your comments, I cloned a bit in that corner, but you can still see some vignette. In print, the effect is not prominent (after cloning). Foreground is one thing I spent lot of time. I didn't want to have a stright line parallel to horizon that divides foreground and middle...but I didn't have much choice. I thought of including some of the slope, but unfortunetly not much light falls on that side, so dicide to go this way. You are very right about back ground mountain range... I burned them little to de-emphasize. painted hills contrast is fine larger image. I tried to post large image, but seems not working re-posting here....so attaching to this message.

Thanks again for comments, appriciated. -Swamy