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Wonderful composition of a place that I'd dearly love to visit. The saturation may be a bit too much, but sometimes it's hard to tell in this digital age; I defer to the explanation of the photographer who originally saw the place with his/her own eyes. I think it's wrong to assume something about a photo regarding the degree of post-processing that may have been applied; there is plenty of jaw-dropping color and wonder in the natural world that doesn't have to be created by the computer. I say this just after returning from Iceland where I saw shades of green moss that were almost unbelievable as I was standing there looking at it.

Simply beautiful. I really like the colors/lighting of this image. You've made a beautiful picture out of a very common photo destination. Congratualation on the POW recognition.
Sinh Nhut Nguyen

Fantastic job on capturing this image, I would have liked the center a tad darker, but that is me and my four eyes (glasses for the young ones)

Great shot of a classic view. Different enough to ones I've seen before to be interesting and of course with a view like that it's difficult not to like it. I think the people who have commented on the saturation have a point (it's a definite trend these days - one that probably started with Velvia but is getting pushed more and more to the extreme) but I don't find it displeasing in this case and if anything it works well - sort of a contrast between the hot and cold if you like. The picture you've uploaded looks somewhat oversharpened to me - I think it'd look better if you toned the sharpening down a bit (especially on the trees). I'd be pleased with this if I'd taken it. Congrats! P.S. Have you thawed put yet? :)

A very pretty scene. The red at upper left & the slight pink in the sky makes it pop. The red contrasts well with the snow

Excellent! A beautiful weather scenery with really exceptional wideness and light! Congratulation! Best regards, Linh Dinh

No doubt a gorgeous scene. I want to tilt it to the left just a little. And I just don't see how in nature the rock face can be so lacking in definition. If you download this photo and analyze the levels there, all the dark and mid-tone data is missing. If this were mine first, I'd be very proud but second, I would post-process again. I believe that some of the lighting in the upper half of this photo has been over processed. And I'd straighten it just a little :)
Cheers~
Alberta

It's beautiful. There is some tension in the framing for me, I'd probably want to pan the view a bit to the right (but then we don't know if there wasn't something distracting just outside the current framing, so this is not a critique).
I agree about the remarks concerning the colours and definition, though. The red rock face does look a little vague, and there's something quite odd about its reflection, so much more deep and vibrant than the 'original'. I'd very much like to see the unprocessed photo!

Me too.

Bill P.

Wonderful landscape and a perfect post card. I find the red area on the right a bit strange compared to the overall colours of the picture. I would try to desaturate it and see the result. Congrats.

We could title "Fire and ice". The most of the image looks a pathetically cold landscape, with a lot of snow and uncommon forms of ice comming up from peaceful water, but the background of the image is giving the "life" by this very vivid orange in the wall of that mountain, reflecting sun light directly to our eyes. It is a very nice image. I would only underline that I see the orange colors a little too exagerated in the water reflection, where always colors have a small trend to go to neutral or grey. Thanks to this man with the curious name. Josemi Gondra.

I don't think it's overprocessed, close but not. Reflections are always denser (ie more colorful), as water is a natural polarizer and shows you why it's nice to use them so the top can have that same effect.
This one is so much nicer once you click on the image and enlarge it. The detail of the rocks in the river make it.
Well done Hanh,
MS

I agree with Michael Seewald: not really over-processed, and reflections are of course always denser - especially when you have to set your exposure so as not to over-expose the snow, obviously... Besides that, a nice place and a nice composition. Not really an amazingly original picture, but who cares, at least it's a very beautiful one. Congrats !

The snow has really iced the cake ! I think you did very well balancing the color and tones etc. The comp is always wonderful as so many photographers have been to this site , your version is inspiring as well .

"...Would like to see the original..." . Well, all one has to do is visit Hahn's portfolio and the original is there ; the exposure was about 5 months ago. I, too feel that this version looks a little cooked and a little oversharp but I still like it nevertheless. I'm torn, however, between this version and the original. Regards.

A classic landscape scene well taken, a bit to Ansell adams for me. I would be happy to say i took this but not so happy to hang it on the wall for a while, it`s just to overly prescise and proper. Technical expertise is always good, but origionality is much more important. Walking in the footsteps of others is a great way to learn, but the wrong way to achieve a good picture.
Strengths.....Classic shot that looks good.
Weakness....Been done before, better & not very interesting

Beautiful,

I specially like the red color.

Wonderful image, Hanh. My wife and I just got back from Yosemite. You have a leg up here because you got to the park in winter or when you got great light and snow. The image is soft, yet really pops. The wonderful red in El Cap contrasts well with the softer rocks at right. Also, you achieved a terrific reflection (my guess is this is sunrise?) and the rocks with snow in the Merced add to the composition. I'd be elated to have taken this one.

I think the most important consideration is the first impression, this image is very eye catching. There is alot of appealing qualities immediately apparent. When I take a longer look, however, I see many questionable characteristics. In a scene such as this, the brightest area would be the sky followed by the snow and then the alpenglow on El Capitan. What is troubling is the rock faces opposite El Capitan, which seem to be about the same in luminosity as the alpenglow. More so, and something that has not been mentioned, is the lower right, which is almost completely black. It looks completely out of place for a scene that otherwise seems so bright. The reflection of the alpenglow, as well, seems over processed. I am merely pointing out contrary elements from a photographers standpoint. What I see, and other photographers see, probably goes unnoticed to the casual viewer. If it were mine, I probably couldn't sleep at night before making some processing changes. But in all honesty, just how important are the things I have pointed out. As I said, it is very eye catching; it certainly caught my eye!!

Nice! you can almost smell the snow on the trees in the meadow.
But assuming the link supplied by Walter Tatulinski is the original, why do the trees on the left side appear to be leaning to the right in the original image, but appear to be straight in this version?
And if that is indeed the original image, was the reflection in the water brought out by simple exposure adjustments only? Or is there more advanced image manipulation being applied - such as multiple layers, copy/paste/invert/smooth, etc?
Just curious