Cradle Mountain from Dove Lake

One of the most photographed views in Australia. I already have a passable night picture of Cradle Mt., but I need a good twilight effort for my collection. Is this it?

I welcome your opinions. Possibly a crop from the bottom?

Good shot!^^

John, this really has impact, even in the thumbnail -- Provia right in its power zone. I love the way the rocks interact with the reflection. Great positioning. The plant on the left frames well too. The only reason to crop would be to remove the unresolved tufty bit (lower right), but the photograph loses some of its power to draw the viewer in.

 

I admire your boldness with the highlights too -- I am always too timid in that department. The rocks look positively metallic.

 

Well done indeed.

I agree the highlights work well. The square format is a big challenge in landscape, but well worth pursuing.

Little crop from bottom can make picture better,to my mind.

I like what Leigh said. If I understood him correctly, cropping the bottom out diminishes the photo's power to draw the viewer. That might not be a bad thing, however. Per the inline, the emphasis transfers to the two humps and the two stones, but there is little room for a viewer to join the image.

Look, I can load inlines just like Balaji...

Rani ain't got nothing on me...

Nice composition!

Absolutely lovely, John. I'd shy away from a crop on this one. The vegetation along the left side and bottom are a nice device for focusing attention on the rocks then upward to the mountain. Very nice.

Thank you all very much. Doug, the neg is still in the can, so to speak. Thanks for showing us what it might look like in black and white.

John, i'm waiting for the monochrome version, the colors looks strange here. i know how much i know color and not only that, i haven't seen something like this in real life either, so you can readily ignore what i said. i like the horizontal shot too. the scene is much more sweeping there and offers more to be viewed. the twin peaks in the back and the two pieces of rock in the fg are having a nice dialogue back and forth...

Doug, i'm smiling out loud as i read your words about inlining..

We learn from each other, Balaji.

 

I would like to take moment here to add that I like my second crop and monochromatization the best, and extend my thanks to John for posting the original, and expressing doubts, which enabled me to make changes according to my own aesthetic, and without guilt.

 

Thanks John.

 

The pleasure was mine Doug. Thank you all again for your interest and feedback.

 

To separate the rocks from the reflection of the skyline, I had the tripod at full extention, had to stand on tippytoes to see the ground glass. It was a very difficult set-up.

I would also not crop the bottom, this way it has more depth... Jiri

I think this version is the better of the two. Largely for the benefit of the stuff just a few feet away. And realising that in all likelihood the photog so loved what he saw he was content to get his feet wet. The alignment of the two foreground boulders with the peaks is classical. I do wish this one had more of the sky information that the other one has, but I can live without that because of the composition and the way the viewer is launched directly into the picture.