Horizontals & diagonals

The horizontal and diagonal patterns, repeating in the sky and in the

mountains, were fascinating... do they work for you as well?

 

Your comments and criticism on this or any other of my mountain shots

is most welcome.

Yes,ofcourse. Beautiful capture.

Great landscape!

Excelente luz, color y encuadre, el cielo polarizado perfecto, un cordial saludp Salvatore.

Nice shot with very nice colors, i love that blue sky, Welldone. I think IMHO the frame is a bit to heavy for the photo, Regards!

A.K., Ognjan, Julio, Rafik thanks for your comment. This is one of the shots you get in late fall when the air gets cold enough to give crisp images and deep colours. I am glad I posted it, now.

Salvatore, Saw this a couple of days ago, couldnt make up my mind regarding the comp. It works no doubt, but im not shure about the left side, with the cloud pointing (depends how you see it) up and out of the frame, or down and into the frame. either way its not working properly together with the contrail. Im thinking that a left crop between the peeks at the left might be good. Then the peak are the ancor, and points towards the contrail, giving good balance, and the part of the cloud wich is left are going in the frame further adding to the balance. Cheers!!

Atle, thanks for your insight. I see your point. If I take your advise and choose to keep the aspect ratio, what I of late am doing, I have to get too much off the top/contrail and lose the thicker part I like at the top. That I cannot lose because -being thicker- to me forces the eye down the rest of the contrail rather than up as an exit. I'll look into that, though.

 

On the other hand, I might visualise the cloud you dislike as a continuation of the furthest ridge... can't I? That's the idea of having at least another diagonal to compensate for the large number of horizontals...

 

P.S. FWIW, you can actually see THREE countries in this picture: the peak (or rather a point on the ridge) is the three-country border of Switzerland, Italy and France.

Keeping the ratio doesnt fit with my suggestion.

As you pointing out.. keeping the contrail is important. When seing your example, i see that the left cloud is important to the flow of the image, supporting the contrail. My suggestion gives more attention to the crossing of the lines in the sky, with the direction of the ridge adding to that, while the original goes more for an overall flow. This photo may look simple, but has great complexity within, wich makes it interesting... so do the fact that its a 3 country border.

Hi Salvatore and all, I read the discussion, the explanations, the theory. And I see the picture. I think the way we see it depends much on the calibration of the screen. In my view the major lines converge somewhere down at the right side, outside of the picture. It is also where the light in the sky leads my eyes. The rather horizontal three lines up in the sky conter-balance to a certain extent the unbalance created by the other lines which culminate outside the picture. Theory appart, it would not be one of my first choises to put on the wall. Karl

Hi Salvatore, Just came back two days ago. what caught my eye first was the deep mysterious blue with diagonal and horizontal lines bisecting each other. The strong diagonal line has a delicate "answer" in the rocks formation which are divided as well to diagonal forms. the diagonals are well ballance by the tri horizontal lines. still on my monitor the blue has quite a lot of black in it and I wish the blue was more accentuated. I don't know if you will print that one, but it maybe my monitor and in print it WILL be more of a " cleaner' color. In any event it is a very nice lighted composition. Pnina

Karl, Pnina. Thanks for your comments.I agree with most of what both of you mention. A lesson to learn is that playing too subtly with colours in a situation where control is difficult and monitor calibration an issue is a minefield. At least, on the monitors I've access to, the shot looks like it was in nature...

 

It might help noticing that this is not the mountain picture I am fondest of... I was just scraping the barrel of the end of the season...

 

Atle, since you like the three-country border thing, here a map.