Lake McDonald Triptych

Comments, ratings on triptych--better way to organize this?

lovely

When I saw this in the thumbnail, I thought "now what's he doing puting a B+W shot into the mix?" Obviously it's not, but I'm not sure this works. I'll have to linger on it a while.

 

I like a visual flow or connection in triptychs and this almost has it; the middle shot would contain the elements of the others if it had clouds. It has the reflection like in the bottom shot, its own colour (for uniqueness), but doesn't have the sky of the top image.

 

I also wonder what this might be like if the middle had more tonal congruence with the rest.

Aaron, these are shot at different times of the day: afternoon, pre-sunset, and sunset. All pretty much straight scans of xpan positives. I'm still trying to find a way to sequence and arrange these in a triptych: I'm not happy with this one.

Robert, all these shots are just breathtaking! You are an awesome photographer. Beautiful!

All three shots are terrific and have their own unique mood. What about adding a 4th (perhaps the storm shot). Would that make it a quadtych?.

The idea of the triptych with such a panoramic subject works wonders. In particular, it addresses the major problem of this kind of shot, that is the post-card staticity. Once you've seen a single frame, you say "WOW, that's a nice spot" and you move on. Here you add the time coordinate, and make it interestingly four-dimensional.

 

All this is commendable and well realised.

 

The problem is that -as usual- Aaron's aesthetic analysis is correct, and the tonal arrangement does not work... You should either devise something where the colours flow from warm to cold (of course I state the obvious) or rather somethin where the colours stay put and the cloud cover or in general the metherological conditions evolve... come on, are these the only three shots you took in this nice spot?