Mountain Waves

Thanks for your constructive critiques and ratings!

Beautifully presented image, Marcel. Wonderful tones and subtle details are a pleasure to study. I especially love the variations in tones of the mountains.

Beautiful layers, lovely color and perfectly captured sky to set it all off!  Well done!

Best regards, Pamela

Interesting photo.  I'm influenced by your title of "Mountain Waves," and I'm looking to see how that title (which presumably reflects your goals for the photo) is implemented.  The photo is almost equally divided between clouds and mountains.  Both have interesting textures and forms.  However, you've shown the clouds at the expense of the mountains; I can see a lower layer of mountains that has been cut off at the bottom, and that layer is incompletely shown.  If you wanted to depict mountain waves, that may have not been the best decision.  Even if you had had no title at all, I'm not sure how these two (the clouds and the mountains) should best be presented.  They are of such different natures (color, forms, textures) that they seem to me to be two entirely different subjects.  Giving 50% of the photo to each leaves me wondering on which of these interesting subjects I should focus.  It seems to me that you need to choose one or the other by having something other than a 50:50 split, more like 80:20 or so.  I can easily see how you would do this kind of split for the mountains, but I'm much less certain how this would work for the clouds.  So I guess I don't have a strong comment on your photo -- just some questions.  I'm stuck in the middle, wondering which way to go, with a lot of uncertainty (but leaning toward more concentration on and implementation of your title).

Marcel, This is most unusual - both for the beauty of the scene and for the strange atmospheric effects.  I have never witnessed anything like it.

jm

Very nice special looking spectacle! Nice mixture of colors with different color temperature on the sky and overall!

PDE

Thanks a lot Liz, Pamela, Stephen, Jerry and Pierre for appreciation! I am glad you liked it, indeed it was very unusual sunset.

Special thanks to Stephen for very constrcutive critique. I will find and post later the 80/20 version with accent on mountains.

Something strange is here in the sky, sounds like a type of artificial manipulation or something, anyway very appealing and dramatic. I agree with some previous notes about more mountain in expense of sky.  My best wishes.

Hamid.

Thanks Hamis, I made no manipulation to sky, it was real, will consider your advice

Very interesting photo Marcel.  The layering here is amazing.  The lighting conditions are very unusual and unique.  I'm still undecided on how much of the sky looks best, but I think I would just keep it like it is since it is such a unique photo.  - Scott

To me the graphic effect of the mountain shapes and colors at the time contrast dramatically with the three colors and horizontal lines in the sky.  This reminds me of some nice Japanese art that I have seen.  The image, to me,  succeeds because of the  graphic lines contrasting horizontal lines and the texture in the sky.

Hi Marcel,

I like the texture contrast with the sky and mountains. The softness of the sky and you can the hard rocky mountains. The colour tones are beautifully used.

Warm regards,

Isabelle

 

i like the layers of the mountains. excellent! but i am kinda confused about the upper sky though. for me it seems it doesnt belong inside this image.