Landrum Kelly 65 Posted June 20, 2004 I love the composition on this one, Steve, and it is hard to see what you might do to improve it. Link to comment
aepelbacher 0 Posted June 20, 2004 Yup ... I'm with Lannie on that! This has to be one of my favorites of all of your gorgeous mountain images. The amazing thing about mountain scenes like this is that the surrounding land (here, the foreground) is completely flat ... then, boom ... up shoots an amazing and huge mountain peak. Wonderful work, Steve!! Link to comment
california-seascapes-photo 0 Posted June 20, 2004 A breathtaking capture Steve, Outstanding!! Link to comment
devotee 0 Posted June 21, 2004 Aesthetics aside, Steve, there is a technical problem here. The main snow and cloud are significant areas of blown highlight. Were they like this on the neg, or have you just pushed the levels too hard in your post-processing? If the latter is true, you should be able to rescue some lost detail with a re-scan. Link to comment
roberto p 0 Posted June 21, 2004 Another great landscape Steve! With the usual good composition and colors. Congrats! Link to comment
stevemarcus 0 Posted June 22, 2004 Barry, I'll give credit where credit is due. I agree with you that the main snow and clouds of the original upload had significant areas of blown highlights. I redid the post-processing of the original scan to fix this. IMO, it looks o.k. now on my home computer, which is an eMac. Link to comment
devotee 0 Posted June 22, 2004 Most people don't examine an image critically enough to fully assess its quality, either aesthetic or technical. On very rare and lucky occasions some supremely helpful critic will enable you to realise your image's full potential. Link to comment
stevemarcus 0 Posted June 22, 2004 On very rare and lucky occasions you are a helpful critic, BT. Link to comment
asathor 0 Posted June 22, 2004 Excellent, I wish I was there. A quick comment. You have pushed the gamut to 100% yet there is not much contrast in the shadows in the mountains, and the pine trees are a bit to bright - the color of fresh buds not mature trees. Link to comment
stevemarcus 0 Posted June 22, 2004 Alex, I may have been too aggressive with USM, hence the "brightness" of the trees. I will try to correct this when I get home tonight. The contrast in the shadows in the mountains will vary greatly depending on monitor calibration and gamma settings used. Indeed, this image is a good example to use for seeing how greatly image brightness, contrast, and color can vary with monitor gamma settings. In sRGB or "default" modes, on my monitor at least, the shadow contrast is mediocre. However, the contrast very good when I use any of my three calibrated settings. Link to comment
randy_singh 0 Posted July 1, 2004 Beautiful photograph. i would like to have taken this one. Link to comment
christian_nothaft 0 Posted January 31, 2005 maybe i am too used in that kind of pix to value the aesthetic qualitiy, but there is really not much originality in it. but well done anyway Link to comment
aeh 0 Posted January 16, 2006 nothing to correct. this is really great. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment
uk_wanderer 0 Posted May 22, 2006 Imagine waking to a scene like that every morning. Wonderful shot, well done. Link to comment
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