Worthington Glacier

I removed a road from the foreground of the image. Any

comments or ratings are appreciated. :-)

Nicely balanced shot. The sky is a little bland, but it's not washed out and the blue is a plus, instead of a stark white or gray.

very beautiful slopes here...with different layers of details...!!

It is always so nice that you say what you did, now there is a road missing, I don't see it. I will now have a look at your complete portfolio, I miss a lot I think. See you, when you ever visit Europe. We will have some GREAT fun, and make some interesting pictures. You with your monopod (thanks for explaining what that is) and I with my little didital camera, handhold.

Before I removed the road.....

Loft

Cool Lou Ann, you pulled the road but not the landing strip. You'll make a good Alaskan yet. :^)

LEAVE THE ROAD!!!! IMO it makes the photo...This is a good shot either way...balanced compostion .

Lou Anne, I like it with the road as well, nice composition. Pnina

With or without the road this is an amazing image, Lou Ann. Congratulations!

I like the one with a road. IMHO it has more to tell. More saturation and some clouds could look nice here.

With the road, there is a better sense of scale for me... Damn... those are some awesome peaks..!

Not that there is a problem with your photograph Lou Ann, but I just wanted to see it a little brighter. So, I increased the level a little and then smoothed out the sky with some Neat Image. I gave it a tweak of unsharp masking after resizing it for this post. One day I have to get to Alaska; looks like a fine place! Regards

Walter ... (1) Feel free to fiddle with any of my images at any point in time ... just make sure that you keep telling me what you've done with them, as I learn an awful lot from your descriptions! And, (2) YES ... Alaska is an amazing place, especially for a photographer because there is SOOOO much there to LOOK at. You must get there!!

Well then Lou Ann, to be a little more specific: after I saved your photograph, I processed it with Neat Image using the default settings. Using Photoshop, I brightened this photograph by using three adjustment layers. I created the first Levels adjustment layer and adjusted the left slider to get a nice looking "Alaskan Blue" sky, ignoring what everything else looked like. When I was happy with that, I used the eraser tool to erase the effect on the the glacier and foreground. I created another Levels adjustment layer for the glacier, and played with the sliders until I liked how it looked, again ignoring the rest of the image. Then I erased over the sky and foreground. The foreground was adjusted similarly. Then I merged all the layers. When I was all done brightening I felt that a little color balance was needed. To me the mountains and ice were a little yellow. I created a Color Balance adjustment layer and gave the image about a +7 boost in blue in the midtones. I felt this gave the photograph more of a feeling of recession and depth (it was the only tampering of the color of the downloaded file). I then erased that adjustment on the foreground and sky. Merged the layer and resized for posting. I sharpened the resized image using USM and, if memory serves, I used an amount of 160, a radius of 0.8 pixel, and a threshold of 2. I generally work in the Ektaspace colorspace in Photoshop but, for this photograph, I left the color management as it is was when downloaded (i.e. sRGB). Well, you asked for the details!

 

By the way, I think the road work helps the overall ambience. If your vantage point were higher, so that you could have imaged more of the sweeping arc of the road, I would have said to leave it in. Just remember when cloning not to duplicate closely situated picture elements. To us busy humans, Mother Nature appears most "natural" when random. Regards.

AWESOME, Walter!! Thanks so much!! I really do read all that sort of stuff word-for-word and learn from it!! Thanks!!

 

I realized that I duplicated some of the trees/bushes only after I uploaded ... I even looked for it while I was doing it, and didn't notice them. Ugh! I have to keep looking more closely!!