Sunrise in the Badlands

Thanks for any thoughts,

 

Cheers,

Aaron

Aaron, this is a superb piece of work! Wonderful range of tones in a very pleasing composition. The sky is just fantastic, as though the light travels along the wisps of cloud. Well done! Cheers! Chris

Yes, great photo with excellent tones. The beautiful high-contrast foreground and the smooth sky balance each other perfectly.

Your forground and sky really compliment each other well composition wise. This one has alot going for it, well done. Great tones as well.

There's not much further to add. The composition and tones are excellent.

Clean picture, good rendition of the lanscape, good technique.

I wonder that you say it was shot on Provia 100F. Did you converto to black and white? Why? Why not b/w directly?

I was wondering when someone would notice. I simply ran out and had to switch to color... hence the impossibly deep shadows. However, given a suitable subject brightness rage, I sometimes intentionally use color film to make a b+w photograph. I like the control I have with Photoshop's channel mixer.

 

Cheers,

Aaron

Aaron

I just love the Badlands. I think it is as close to going to the Moon as you can get without leaving Earth, If you know what I mean. I've camped,hiked and shot a few frames in those barren hills. I really need to buy a film scanner. I have thousands of negatives and no way to post them except scanning the positives which is a waste of time. I really like how the light is behind this up-cropping and its interaction with the sky and clouds.

Jim

What they said. :-)

 

Also, I very much like the way the curving lines in the clouds are perpendicular to the general direction of the lines in the foreground, which are paralleled by the line of the skyline ridge.