Valley View

in color this time...new to photography...please critique for

improvement...thanks!

love it, a lil more light on the left wouldn't hurt

Great picture. It almost looks like a painting. Maybe a little more light in the rocks/trees could give more detail.

My monitor must be brighter that most, cuz I think this is perfect, and any artist would agree, and get out his brushes... 6/6 *R*

Thanks all for the comments. I really appreciate all of them! :-)

 

My monitor shows sufficient light on the trees and rocks in the FG. Maybe my monitor needs to be calibrated..Does this site have a calibration utility somewhere? Please let me know.

 

Also, I get a lot of comments on my landscape shots about "more light is needed" in a particular section of the scape. I'm new to this, but how does a photographer "add" light to a dark section of a landscape while out in the field? When I shot this photo, the light was coming from the right, so naturally, there will be shadows/dark areas on the left. Short of bringing studio lights out into the field, I would certainly welcome any suggestions on how to avoid the problem. Thanks again for all your comments. Very much appreciated.

One of the best landscape images I've seen in a while. Nice!

Hi,

Fantastic composition

True excellent shoot

 

i don't understand people who rate below 6 for aestetical , only envy made their ratings:)

 

Perfect shot

Wow, like an oil painting.

I'm new also, but I must say, your stuff is great,your work looks more professional than most. You inspire me.

On my monitor (with wich I am VERY satisfied) it is perfect. (Of course you all look at the large image?) So the contrasts do not bother me. In the field there is nothing you can do or you will get trouble with the light parts, In photoshop or another editor you can dodge and burn afterwards if you feel the need to do so, or play a bit with levels for the whole image or by selecting area's.

For a beginning photographer your photos are great.

Beautiful phot..........might suggest a graduated ND filter to lighten the foreground just a little. Love the photo! Well done

thanks all for looking, commenting, and/or rating...very much appreciated.

 

FRANK MELCHIOR: Thanks for the compliments...I checked out your gallery...your images are GREAT!

Well seen and well captured !

Francis, The way many photographers would "add" light to a photo such as this would be to visit the physical location at various times of the day and under many different weather conditions throughout a period of weeks or months. That's what Ansel Adams did routinely. Then, he would stand around for hours, waiting for the perfect moment to expose his film. Finally, he would refine the image further by dodging and burning in the darkroom, a process now possible in software programs such as Photoshop. I have taken a number of scenic photographs where the window of time for optimal lighting was less than one minute. Often, one must "haunt" certain locations in order to find the perfect time for shooting, which often turns out to be dawn or dusk. At the location of your photo, I'll wager that at a certain time of day you'll find just the right highlights appearing in the foreground and on the pine trees, which can be highly flattered by the best light. This is good work, though. I'd like to see it cropped so that the gap with sky is a little more left of center. You might want to experiment with that, using the rule of thirds as an initial guide.

Excellent balance and composition. Just a positive suggest : a bit of contrast should reduce the fog, then, to lighten the trees and darken the cliffs, try one of those free adds-on for photoshop : http://www.chez.com/rominfo/Scripts%20et%20fichiers.html

 

Hope you can read french :-) Check the demos on the right column...

 

 

Wow this looks like it was designed on the computer. Fantastic, perfect for a computer desktop

Excellent work!

Very nice landscape. Looks well composed to me, with nice contrast and lighting.

Your work its really beautiful and most important original. I can see that you have your own style.

superb. strange you do not use larger format.

I like colours very much. What about a composition including more sky and clouds? I think that it would improve the image. The mountains in the background are not very sharp, but any case, I think it is a marvellous image. Congratulations.

A strong composition and dramatic clouds makes this a real winner. I feel that foreground could be a bit brighter but that's just a personnel opinion. May I recommend "Eye One Display 2" for calibrating your monitor. It costs about $100 and is a most for any serious photographer.