Thumbs Cove Quadtone

This is more to my personal taste and liking than the other color

image of the same place. What do you think?

This is a very dramatic image and the quadtones are very nice. The only thing Is the water looks a little oversharpened or more duo-tone than quad and to me and the lower right shadow is a little over powering. Overall, however, this is simply gorgeous, the clouds and moutains are just beutiful and moody. Great Job!

a friend of mine who's a painter says she goes places to make photographs to bring back home for inspiration. alaska, she says, is one of the few places you can go and NOT make a bad picture. it is that beautiful!

well, the moral of that story is that she's certainly right about it being beautiful there. my god, this is a breathtaking scene. i think you captured the mood of this place very well, and i'll leave it up to yourself to decide if you like the quadtones or not. i like straight b&w. very well done!

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Brilliant & the yacht provides a nice lift & contrast to the image.

Beautiful!!

Interesting comment Per your friend is right and not right at the same time. Alaska can be overwelming in its senic beauty and I have seen alot of it. But in the middle of such senery It can be very hard to hunt down the right compostion that can catch the sense of place. A painter can change everything, just as we can do in PS if we wish. Some places I have seen are so overwelling that I have not been able to catch it on film, yet. When I am out shooting I try to feel the sense of place,Alaska can hit you over the head with it so you can't see strait. But then you must "see" as the camera see's and hunt the image down. Some time it works some times not. My main problem with this image is that I took it while rowing around our new to us wooden power boat and taking snap shots of it with my 990 and did not have my N80 or F4s with me when the light turned so nice on the Mts. More and more I am turning to what I call impresionist photography. Take a good image and then work it in PS to give the emonial responce I am look for and I feel it when I see it. The work of Eddie Ephraums greatly moves me.....very dark with a mixture of speia and black&white tones. Look for his book "Creative Elements" he works in the tradional darkroom manner and is a great master at it. I am very much still trying to find my true voice in this art field and I will use any tool in PS or tecnique I can learn or find to help me nail an image to my liking. So the final image is most important to me, not how I or someone else got there. By chemical or digital the same choices have to be made on what to do where and when and how much how little when to stop, just like painting in many ways. Any way I have been ranting here to long. Thank you for your comments and all civil comment pro or neg are welcome. Polite civil discourse is always welcome on my pages. Rude ranters should take a class in manners and civil debate. And I should take a class in spelling:-)

Wonderful B/W version, Dennis.Anna

Wow, I can feel the grandeur.

Wow!!! The cooltone combined with the clear separations between the lights and darks are terrific!!!! Very very well done.

Ah yes ! MUCH better without the colors imo... Very dramatic here, and beautiful. I know you like it dark in general, and so do I, but maybe a bit more details in the shadows at the bottom would be a plus. But very nice picture...

This image has a lot of impact. Unfortunately, I feel like the image reeks of manipulation. Nothing wrong with tweaking the image, but it feels like it. A little too heavy in the shadows, its just keeping me from giving it a "7" on both!

Dramatic.

This photo gave me goosebumps! Emotion evoking image most definitely! well done, dennis!

This photo also works if cropped at the shoreline with the mast shopped out--it is a different work, of course, as the pure, stark beauty of high mountains, austere and frightening, but sublime.

Something like this (hope you don't mind, Dennis):

WOWWWW I wish I was there !!

Is that real? I'd like sailing there...Strange and beautiful atmosphere.

(I don't understand...why these mountains and those of Lannie are the same???)

I saw this same photograph in color, and my immediate thought was: WoW! Much better this way...

Excellent composition, light, overall tones, etc. Great sweeping, majestic feeling. Thoughtful and lucid mood. The gray of the mountain tops closer to the foreground is a bit ... unnatural to me. Don't know if it's my monitor, but I definately understand what you mean about the difference in colors and brightness between Photoshop and Photo.net. Sometimes, I don't think the image actually updates at all (and, yes, I did hit the refresh button. even tried shift + refresh which is always supposed to work...in theory).

 

Regards,

To Elisabetta: I just took out the water and the sailboat mast. The mountains are the same. I wanted to see this as pure mountains, although Dennis' version is clearly better. As pure mountains, it reminds me of pictures I have seen of the Karakoram, part of the Himalayas, very cold but very inviting at the same time. If you take 40% off the bottom of my version, it definitely looks like the Himalayas, since the mountains in Alaska are so much further north and approximate the climatic conditions of the highest mountains on earth.

... a very "sinister" picture - the light is a bit too spooky to my opinion. Have you adapted anything in Photoshop?

I see I am not the only one who has problems with the appearance of photographs in Photoshop versus how they post here on Photo.net. At least Photoshop 7 now allows me to preview the change that will take place when posting to the web. I usually adjust my midtone levels anywhere from 15-30 points brighter before saving for the web. As for your picture, as good as what we are seeing here, I can definitely imagine that what you are seeing in your original is much more striking. A powerful sense of proportion I feel as I look at the relationship between the boat and the mountains.

perfect colours

The remarks about uploading from PS to the net remind me of my own personal observation: Paint Shop Pro by JASC (at about $50) gives a more accurate upload then PS Elements. I'm too poor to have PS, and so I have no basis for comparison with PS itself, but on the basis of color alone the cheaper software seems to preview better, in my opinion.