Schnell's Ridge

John, this is one of the best photographs of south west tasmania that I have ever seen. I think some work with the mid tones is needed, they seem to have been flattened somewhat on the curve to bring out the shadow and highlight detail - nothing that can't be fixed in the dark room. This is a brilliant composition that captures a lot of the scenic grandeur of the region whilst still maintaining supurb intimacy with the subject. It really captures for me something of what makes the south west very special.

 

Well done. I'll look forward to seeing you work on it in the dark room.

 

Matt

They'll all think you're a figment of my imagination if you don't post one of your beautiful works soon. C'mon!

 

BTW, thanks for the kind words. I really like it too, but it's been a bit of a sleeper on p.net.

 

Cheers,

I like the background haze, and the dim outline of the ridge behind. Like some of your other photos, it has quite an abstract quality, I think resulting from a lack of context - we can't see quite how this landscape fits together. It's more of a study, and less instantly attractive. I quite like it though.

This has indeed not been viewed very much. I'm often kind of "confondu" when I arrive a top of a mountain, because I don't know how to deal with it photographically, but I think here you sure managed to capture the beauty of what there is to find up there in this photo. With an interesting composition and a well thought out angle leaving a nice background providing the photo with more context and sense of depth instead of just sky... I guess it's a matter of photographing the second high top instead of the hightes to get a nicer angle or something :-)

 

I also like how there is a diagonal in the upper right corner that is paralel to the main subject/rock. Secondly there is the interesting contrast between textures of this main rock and the smaller secondary ones in the left.

 

Regards,

Julien